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Dr. Anna Abalkina from Freie Universität Berlin Named One of 2024's Top Ten Most Significant Scientists by "Nature" Economist Dr. Anna Abalkina from Freie Universität Berlin's Institute

An international team of researchers led by professor of Egyptology at Freie Universität Berlin Jochem Kahl made the discovery An international team of archaeologists led by Professor Jochem Kahl from Freie Universität Berlin has made an incredible discovery in the necropolis of Asyut, Egypt.

Research project at Freie Universität Berlin documenting historic photographs of deportations in Nazi Germany receives prestigious online award The #LastSeen image atlas, an international research pr

Official opening of the Ihnestraße Memorial - a new permanent exhibition at Freie Universität Berlin - to commemorate historical site of eugenics institute Freie Universität Berlin has installed a pe

Platform offers insights into current research on the First World War, including over 1,600 articles and more than 3,700 illustrations Freie Universität Berlin has relaunched the international open-access encyclopedia "1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War.

New approach to diminish antibiotic resistance developed by research team from Freie Universität Berlin, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and ETH Zurich Antibiotics are a cornerstone of modern medicine. They are regularly used to treat bacterial infections or as a prophylactic measure during surgery to prevent infection.

Liberal societies are under pressure worldwide: internally eroded by right-wing populist electoral victories and growing economic inequality, externally challenged by the power play of autocratic governments.

Prehistoric site is currently being researched by archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin In 2012, archaeologists from Freie Universität Berlin came across mysterious stones in the mountains of the South Caucasus. Known as vishaps ("dragon stones"), these large stelae are approximately five meters in height and are famously found in the high mountains of Armenia.