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 performed better at the video game «Fruit Ninja» were also faster at naming pictured objects – an established indicator of reading readiness.
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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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Informatic
A More Trustworthy Way to Visualize Complex Data
21.07.2026
A new method «EmbedOR» uses geometry to keep clusters in data intact where popular tools quietly fail.
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Immune system
New bacterial weapon against the immune system
09.07.2026
University of Fribourg researchers discover that hydrogen cyanide, produced by dangerous bacteria, helps the bacteria evade the patients' immune defenses.
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Physics
A world first: light pulses create a new state of matter
06.07.2026
By applying ultrafast light pulses to a semiconductor, physicists at the University of Fribourg in collaboration with an international team of scientists have succeeded for the fir...
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Neurosciences
Neurons that explain why no two movements are ever the same
02.07.2026
Every time we reach for a cup of coffee, the movement is never quite the same. A team of neuroscientists at the University of Fribourg (Unifr) has shown that this variability relie...
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