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What effects might the pandemic have on Germany as an country which attracts a lot of immigrants between now and 2030? A research project at FAU involving researchers from various disciplines has investigated this issue in more detail and has drawn up various scenarios for the future.

Exploring and encouraging dialogue between the religions is more important than ever in view of terrorism, anti-Semitism, hostility towards Muslims, growing numbers of Islamic refugees migrating to Europe and acts of violence committed in the name of religion. The Bavarian Research Centre for Interreligious Discourse (BaFID) at FAU is committed to promoting mutual dialogue between the religions.

Since 2009 students at FAU can choose to study the European Master in Lexicography (EMLex). Since 2016 the program has been offered in a special format: as an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree. This year, the entire EMLex cohort has come to Erlangen to study at FAU. We talked to some of the students about their choice and what they like about their course and the city.

Environmental pollution caused by microplastics and nanoplastics is a ubiquitous problem which cannot be tackled using currently available cleaning concepts. Researchers at FAU have now demonstrated how magnets could be used to remove plastic particles of various types and sizes from water.

A triangular structure in the largest satellite galaxy surrounding the Milky Way has left astrophysicists around the world puzzled due to its unusually energetic X-ray emissions. FAU researchers have now investigated this phenomenon using the ESA XMM-Newton X-ray observatory and can reveal that it is caused by the collision of two gas clouds, which will most likely cause a new star-forming region.

FAU President Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger has officially accepted the Himbeerpalast building. The Siemens lettering was removed from the building, making room for the FAU logo in future.

Nussaibah Raja Schoob from the Geozentrum Nordbayern at FAU discusses the question if palaeontological artefacts should be returned to their counties in the New York Times.

You need soap to remove dirt from your skin. The surfactant molecules it contains squeeze their way into the surface area between the dirt and the skin and help to dissolve the dirt in water. Researchers at FAU and Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (HHU) have observed the same phenomenon with rotating microrobots.

People with sensitive teeth are all too familiar with the painful sensation they experience as soon as they start eating ice cream. The cold thermoreceptor TRPC5 is responsible for sensitivity to cold temperatures in teeth. This is what an international team of researchers led by Prof. Dr. Katharina Zimmerman has now discovered.