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In a recent issue of the renowned journal Nature Photonics, physicists at FAU and Friedrich Schiller University Jena find the answers to astronomical questions in the laboratory, shifting the focus to a previously underappreciated material property – surface curvature.

A new cell culture technique allows the processes of tumour growth to be studied directly and in real time, without the need for complex experiments using live animals. The researchers at FAU who developed the technique looked specifically at brain tumours.

To enable older people to stay healthy for as long as possible, the Institute of Psychogerontology at FAU is launching a new model for individual consultation linked to academic research.

To save energy during the holiday season, the University will be closed from 23 December 2015 until 6 January 2016. The Student Advice and Career Service (IBZ) and the Examinations Office will be closed during this period. Parts of the University Library will remain open on certain days with reduced opening hours.

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.