University of Freiburg

Precisely how does a forest system and the individual plants that make it up react to extreme drought? Understanding the processes involved is crucial to making forests more resilient in the increasingly dry climate that will result from…

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Fünfgeld, one of the project directors and chair for the group Geography of Global Change at the University of Freiburg, states: “We are delighted to have been nominated for the German Sustainability Award for Research,…

The road is purple, cars are blue, and pedestrians are red. What would otherwise be a normal car ride through the city suddenly look unfamiliar through the eyes of artificial intelligence (AI). The colorful images produced by the AI…

Study sheds light on how differently men and women trust each other based on facial featuresMany studies in psychology have shown that people judge how trustworthy a person is on the basis of their first impression of the other person's…

Every year on November 25, the International Day against Violence against Women is a day of commemoration and protest to publicly highlight the global extent and forms of violence against women and to set a signal about discrimination and…

One process has similar CO2 footprint to e-mobilityTechnologies for the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere (direct air capture, or DAC for short) are already in use, but neither their actual benefits for climate…

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is boosting the training of Freiburg PhD students and extending funding for two research training groups (RTG) at the University of Freiburg: the two development programs ‘MeInBio – BioInMe:…

The joys and frustrations of swimming, men’s groups and women who read voraciously, itineraries and the ‘discovery’ of nature: the new Otium museum of literature presents various facets of the famous spa, Baden-Baden, and reveals how it…

If you want to find the optimal materials for a particular application – whether it’s a rotor blade for a wind turbine, a plastic bench, or a robust screw – you need as many meaningful data as you can find. Better access to such data is…

The project illuminates the issue of hate from the perspectives of science, self-reflection and public discourseDiscrimination, exclusion, polarization: the term hate has many faces. As part of the project “For a University of Diversity…