Research

At the beginning of December, an international team of researchers, including members from FAU, celebrated the inauguration of the prototype Gamma-ray Cherenkov Telescope (GCT), which was developed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), at the Observatoire de Paris in Meudon.

How nanoparticles give electrons away: Researchers have investigated how much electrical charge nanoparticles transfer to their support for the first time.

In the early morning of December 3 scientists and engineers from nine European countries started the installation of KM3NeT, the largest detector of neutrinos in the Northern Hemisphere.

Mit Zucker lassen sich besonders wirksame Antikörper formen. Wie das geht, das haben Wissenschaftler der FAU mit Forschern aus Schweden und Kroatien herausgefunden und im Fachjournal „Cell Reports“ veröffentlicht.

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...

At FAU, researchers at the Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen are working on a new HIV vaccination strategy that makes use of the immune response to a hepatitis B vaccine that has already been approved.

Several German banks are introducing new mobile banking apps but users should be cautious. IT security researchers at FAU have shown that the new app-based TAN system is not as secure as previous systems.