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A team of researchers have discovered a factor that may help trigger obesity. They investigated how immune cells work together in visceral fat to cause inflammation that leads to weight gain and obesity.

Loud background noises make it difficult for people who are hard of hearing to follow what a speaker is saying. Hearing aids do not really help as currently available models do not filter background noises out. Researchers at FAU have developed a method that makes it easier to understand speech at high levels of background noise.

Extreme weather events are one example of the shocks caused by climate change. As climate change progresses, these shocks increase.

On this World Water Day, we take a look at what the latest IPCC report says about water security and the effects climate change has on it.

Cybersecurity affects us all, including private households, small and medium sized enterprises and public authorities. The new Bavarian research cluster ‘ForDaySac – Security in everyday digitalisation’ has been established with the aim of improving the security of digital infrastructure in future. Researchers from FAU are also involved.

The winner of the design competition for the new lecture hall complex in Henkestrasse has been chosen: Stuttgart architecture firm Ackermann + Raff’s design convinced the judges and was described by science minister Markus Blume as a ‘temple’. The concept combines an open-plan design with a variety of uses.

The basic ticket for VGN is now available to download or print.

MRI is a reliable and non-evasive imaging procedure that delivers accurate results. This is the area Dr. Simon Lévy specialises in, and for which he has recently received the prestigious scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The funding will allow him to develop new methods for carrying out MRI scans of the spinal cord.

Prof. Dr. Katharina Herkendell is FAU’s new Officer for the Prevention of Antisemitism. In our interview, Prof. Herkendell who is Professor for Decentralised Energy Process Engineering, explains what her role involves, what she hopes to achieve and who can contact her and when.

Over the next three years, researchers at FAU hope to design a wearable device for monitoring the breathing of patients with chronic diseases such as asthma or bronchitis. Methods from artificial intelligence will be used to automatically classify and evaluate data.