Research

The last nuclear power plants in Germany will be decommissioned in 2022. However, by then, it will not be possible to meet all of the country’s electricity requirements using wind and solar energy. This means that gas will play a crucial role as an energy source over the coming decades. But how can ...

FAU researchers have discovered that tumour cells can hide from antibody therapy in bone marrow. Scientists from the Division of Genetics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in collaboration with Universitätsklinikum Erlangen have made a breakthrough discovery in cancer resear...

Heavy cloud, overcast in some places and strong gusts are to be expected. If there was a weather forecast for distant galaxies, it would sound quite similar – especially for the centre of the galaxies where black holes consume all surrounding matter with an insatiable hunger. An international team o...

Two new international graduate schools funded by the Elite Network of Bavaria (ENB) will make a significant contribution to medical research. Young researchers are developing state-of-the-art drugs for disrupting communication between cells and examining methods of cancer treatment which strengthen ...

Regenerative forms of heat supply are on the rise. Apart from solar heat and wood pellet systems, new buildings are mostly equipped with ground heat collectors combined with heat pumps. However, it is difficult to dimension such systems exactly. The EU-funded project ‘ThermoMap’, which is co-ordinat...

How did black holes form and how did they shape the universe? How did large structures form from regular matter as we see it today? These questions are among the most important of modern astrophysics and the European Space Agency’s next big mission could provide the answers we seek. FAU is one of th...

What lies behind dark matter, black holes and exploding stars? Where can they be found and how did they form? Together with colleagues from all over the world, Dr. Alexander Kappes, researcher at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), wants to get closer to solving the big mysterie...

Researchers at FAU have for the first time experimentally confirmed a new theory that describes the movement of long-chain molecules in their liquid melt. The theory says that these melts are not only as viscous as honey on the molecular scale, but that they also have elastic properties similar to a...

Physicists at FAU have proved experimentally that light pulses can accelerate each other permanently. This would allow for a controlled shift of the wavelength of light pulses, which could be interesting for many disciplines such as laser physics and spectroscopy. The scientists recently published t...

The geologists from Erlangen and their colleagues from Hanover, Bremen, Kiel and Canada returned from their expedition on the research ship ‘Sonne’ highly satisfied. ‘In just under four weeks we were able to conduct eleven successful dives in the southwest Pacific,’ says Prof. Dr. Karsten Haase of t...