Bots are usually helpers on the Internet. However, there is a growing suspicion that they are being used to spread political propaganda. Researchers at FAU have investigated the extent to which autonomous programmes such as these were used on the platform Twitter during the general elections in Japan in 2014.
On the one hand, oxygen is an essential element required for cells to survive; on the other hand, it also adds fuel to the fire of inflammation. Researchers at FAU have discovered how the body skilfully uses this process to extinguish inflammation.
Did Luther really look like he does on the pictures? A research project funded with nearly one million euros by the Leibniz Association is to explore these questions over the next three years
Sport scientist PD Dr. Karim Abu-Omar explains which problems exist with children's diet and leisure activities and the challenges facing politics and research.
Cultural geographers at FAU are researching the debates held in German cities regarding their bid to become European capital of culture in 2025 in a project financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Are optimism and the will to live key to a long life and a high level of personal independence into old age? Gerontologists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) think so.
Researchers at FAU with international partners from Israel and Germany have set about changing this in a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. If the project is successful, the sensors could in future be used for large-scale close monitoring of NO2 levels in metropolitan areas and to improve the diagnosis and early detection of cancers.
