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24/06/2022

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09/06/2022

👩‍🔬 The Power-to-X technology is a method to use resources more efficiently. In this short video (2 minutes!), professor Tanja Franken explains how Power-to-x can close the cycle of materials ♻️ where CO2 stemming from exhaust gases 💨 is reused together with hydrogen to create new energy sources. 🔥

Ressourceneffizienz und Energiespeicher sind in aller Munde. Doch was können wir wirklich machen? Am Beispiel der Power-to-X Technologie erklären wir wie CO2...

08/06/2022

On Worlds Ocean Day, we want to have a look at the big ponds 🌊 🌊

🦑 🐳 Emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide from human activity cause ocean warming, acidification, oxygen loss, and other physical and chemical changes that are affecting marine ecosystems around the world. At the same time, natural climate variability and direct human impacts, such as overfishing and pollution, also affect marine ecosystems locally, regionally and globally. These climatic and non-climatic factors mutually reinforce each other.

Tipping points - a threshold beyond which an abrupt or rapid change in a system occurs - that have already been reached in ocean systems include the melting of sea ice in the Arctic, thermal bleaching of tropical coral reefs and the loss of kelp forests.

🔎 To prove that the oceans are changing because of human-induced climate change, scientists use various methods. With the help of paleo records, they reconstruct connections between climate, evolutionary and ecological changes in the geological past; with experiments, they investigate current climatic and ecological reactions, for example to higher CO2 levels in the water, or test in models what relative influence certain factors have.

About
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. In their latest report, published in late February, scientists outline the state of scientific, technical and socio-economic knowledge on climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for reducing the rate at which climate change is taking place. One of the report’s main authors is Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kiessling, head of the Chair of Palaeontology at FAU.

06/06/2022

‼️ Reminder: Tomorrow it’s Bergdienstag and there are no lectures

03/06/2022

❓ Ever wondered if the knowledge transferred in the episodes of “Squid Game” is scientifically accurate?

🔎 We asked FAU researchers to take a closer look at the facts regarding safety and normal glass to find out how to play the Glass Bridge game in Season 1. In our second episode, we focus on the strength of the safety glass.

Watch Part 2 on The Science of Squid Game to find out yourself 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNnD5r5MnWI

31/05/2022

How does sustainability taste? 🧐 Find out in this research talk with FAU president Joachim Hornegger and FAU professor and food chemist Andrea Büttner 👩‍🔬 that focuses on the production of sustainable food. 🍏
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAUmYhvq3JQ

27/05/2022

‼️ Official reminder: Don't forget to register for your exams - starting today

25/05/2022

🚂 Here’s what students need to know about the nine euro ticket 👉 https://www.fau.eu/2022/05/24/news/9-euro-ticket-alle-infos-zum-semesterticket/

Image: colourbox

23/05/2022

💜 Impressions from Saturday’s Long Night of Sciences ✨
Fotos: FAU/Georg Pöhlein

22/05/2022

It’s Biodiversity Day so that’s what we want to talk about! 🦚 🦌 🦅 🐛

Biodiversity hotspots are ecologically unique regions that are exceptionally rich in species, and are thus priority targets for nature conservation. There are many definitions of biodiversity. All of them include the variation within and between species and of ecosystems and identify a set of priority areas that cover a small portion of the Earth, but house an exceptionally high proportion of its biodiversity.

Because biodiversity underpins all life on Earth, these hotspots have significant global value as they contain species and habitats that are found nowhere else. Their loss would mean loss of species and habitats that provide wild and farmed food, medicine and other materials and services such as climate regulation, pollination and water purification, all of which maintain the health of the ecosystems we depend upon.

Healthy ecosystems, with flourishing biodiversity in natural conditions, are more resilient to disturbances, whether natural or human in origin. Environmentally sustainable development inside and outside hotspots could help reverse human impacts on biodiversity. The hotspots also capture and store carbon, thereby helping to mitigate climate change. Prioritization of protecting biodiversity in hotspots thus benefits nature conservation and helps mitigate climate change. A global network of protected areas and restoration initiatives inside biodiversity hotspots can also help increase resilience to the effects of climate change on biodiversity.

About
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change. In their latest report, published in late February, scientists outline the state of scientific, technical and socio-economic knowledge on climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for reducing the rate at which climate change is taking place. One of the report’s main authors is Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kiessling, head of the Chair of Palaeontology at FAU.

20/05/2022

🇪🇺🇪🇺 On Saturday, May 21, the city of Nuremberg celebrates Europe Day 🇪🇺🇪🇺
- from 11 am to 5 pm around the Lorenzkirche in Nuremberg & our Central Office for International Affairs will also be there 👇
https://www.nuernberg.de/internet/eu_buero/aktuell_78550.html
.. afterwards you can go on to the Long Night of Sciences 😉

(Photo: Stadt Nürnberg)

17/05/2022

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

At FAU, we are flying the flag today to draw attention to the fact that acceptance and equality are still lacking. The "Referat Q***r" invites everyone to join the demo today on Schlossplatz in Erlangen👇

https://www.fau.de/2022/05/news/diversity/

(Photo: FAU/ch)