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To build a particle accelerator the size of a shoe box – this is the goal of a research team being led by FAU and Stanford University in collaboration with eight international partners. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation is funding the project for the next five years with 13.5 million US dollars (approximately 12.5 million euros).

Climate change is progressing rapidly. It is not the first time in our planet's history that temperatures have been rising, but it is happening much faster now than it ever has before. Or is it? Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have shown in the latest edition o...

The Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) presented the eighth SAOT Young Researcher Award in Optical Technologies (YRA). The winner was Dr. Alexander Jesacher from the Division of Biomedical Physics at the Medical University of Innsbruck.

When studying bilayer graphene FAU researchers made an exciting observation which provides the key to understanding a mysterious phenomenon in solid-state physics: the unusual behaviour of electrical resistance in magnetic fields.

At the end of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago, a large meteorite impact event caused the most recent of five mass extinction events in the Earth's history. Palaeontologists from the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and from FAU have now carried out a detailed investigation of the ecological shifts in the oceans for the first time.

Carbon nanotubes are light yet stronger than steel, as a semiconductor they are more efficient than silicon, and they conduct electricity better than copper. For the first time, a team of international researchers, some of whom are based at FAU, have grown single-walled carbon nanotubes in a targeted way.