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In their research project 'Athanasius Werke' (Athanasius's works) theologists at FAU are investigating a turning point in church history: the controversy surrounding the proper understanding of the Trinity.

Almost half of the German population is overweight and at risk of developing diabetes or joint disorders such as rheumatism and osteoarthritis. A national project being led by FAU aims to investigate what causes and is related to these highly prevalent diseases.

At the end of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago, a large meteorite impact event caused the most recent of five mass extinction events in the Earth's history. Palaeontologists from the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and from FAU have now carried out a detailed investigation of the ecological shifts in the oceans for the first time.

Chemists and physicists at FAU are investigating singlet fission, a process in which one photon excites two electrons

For many of us, once we open a packet of crisps there is no stopping us – we keep eating until it is empty. Food chemists at FAU have now discovered a possible explanation for why some types of food are more tempting than others.

The voluntary survey of employees of the university’s administrative service departments is part of the employee development programme at FAU

FAU now has one of the world's best transmission electron microscopes for its researchers to use. This powerful piece of equipment is housed at the new Institute of Micro and Nanostructure Research which was officially opened on 30 April.