Award
Seeking the unexplainable between the lines of musical scores
10.11.2026
From Gustav Mahler to clownish humour, musicologist Anna Stoll Knecht’s research is pushing the boundaries of the discipline. For her work, the SNSF has awarded her the 2026 Marie...
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Environment
«Back to Kathmandu» Gives Mountain Communities a Voice
04.11.2026
Forty-four years after the Kathmandu Declaration, the science communication project «Back to Kathmandu», supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation’s (SNSF) Agora programme...
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Education
Making education systems across Europe more equitable
15.10.2026
How can educational inequalities be effectively reduced? The new EU-funded research project TRANSFER, coordinated by the University of Fribourg, explores how education policies can...
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Neuroscience
What «Fruit Ninja» reveals about learning to read
08.10.2026
The way children follow moving objects with their eyes may reveal abilities that later help them learn to read. A study by the University of Fribourg shows that pre-readers who per...
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Climate
Swiss glaciers lose a further five per cent of their volume
01.10.2026
Intense heatwaves from May to September, combined with a winter with little snow, led to another devastating year for the glaciers. This is evident from the latest data from the Sw...
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Neuroscience
LSD allows the brain to continue learning after a trip
24.09.2026
The psychedelic experience – the so-called “trip” – is over, but it now appears that LSD continues working in the brain afterwards. A study carried out by the Molecular Psychiatry...
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Health
An enzyme with many faces: New findings could pave the way for treatments for rare diseases and cancer
16.09.2026
Researchers at the University of Fribourg, in collaboration with partners from the Dubochet Centre for Imaging and EPFL, have unravelled a key mechanism of a vital human enzyme. Th...
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Societal risks
University of Fribourg contributes to a national network in the field of disinformation
07.09.2026
The University of Fribourg is well represented in the "Disinformation" cluster of the new National Science Advice Network. Anna Jobin, Assistant Professor at the Human-IST Institut...
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Biology
Invasive species affect the Global South far more severely than previously thought
22.07.2026
Study led by the University of Fribourg corrects previous assumptions about invasive species and points the way towards a new international environmental policy to reduce species e...
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