06.04.2021

A team from the physics department of the University of Fribourg has measured surprising properties in a new type of material, properties that pave the way for promising applications in tomorrow's electronics.

06.04.2021

A study from the University of Fribourg sheds some light on how our cells store fat. These results are an important step towards a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying obesity, one of today's…

24.02.2021

Researchers at the Adolphe Merkle Institute at the University of Fribourg have discovered how environmental conditions affect water transport through the waxy skin layer of ivy and olive leaves and have…

21.01.2021

We welcome a new professor at the Science Faculty, Enrico Le Donne in the Mathematics Department. Here is a feature about his arrival in Fribourg and his research in the Alma & Georges magazine (in…

15.01.2021

Professor Frank Scheffold's group in the Department of Physics have recently published two major papers on the manipulation of light by materials, in the prestigious journals Physical Review Letters and…

29.10.2020

Three researchers have been awarded the prestigious PRIMA funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation at Unifr. The PRIMA programme is aimed at woman researchers with high potential to become professors.…

03.09.2020

Only a few of the bones from remains found on the oldest known battlefield in Europe show evidence of milk tolerance. Some 120 generations later, almost all people living in the same area are now able…

02.07.2020

Three research programmes at Unifr have been the topic of articles in the Horizonte magazine of the Swiss National Science Foundation

15.06.2020

A primeval giant with a low, elongated skull? That doesn't quite correspond to our typical image of a predatory dinosaur. However, a preliminary examination of the inner structures of a Spinosaur skull…