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RESEARCH 2025

How Sustainable Are Quantum Computers?

Proving the impossible: Mathematician Ryan Sweke designs algorithms for supercomputers

Nov 17, 2025

Where Is Life Possible?

Searching for liquid water on distant moons: The possibility of life could mean survival for the crews of space missions.

Nov 14, 2025

Fire and Water – Climate Lessons from the Past

Researchers are looking to the past to answer current questions about climate change. Sediment cores provide a wealth of knowledge about life on Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Nov 12, 2025

Exploring the Medicinal Secrets of Plants

Researchers in a German-Brazilian project are investigating the efficacy of medicinal plants in Brazil. They want to find out if they can be used as ingredients for cosmetics and medicines.

Oct 31, 2025

Endangered Reefs

Resilient corals are vital to preserving marine life. How much longer do they have? Researchers at Freie Universität Berlin explore the possible lessons we can learn from the ocean’s memory.

Oct 27, 2025

“It is about the targeted humiliation of political opponents”

Semester Focus on Academic Freedom: SCRIPTS panel discussion “Flashpoint USA” held at Freie Universität Berlin

Aug 01, 2025

Provenance Research: Interview with Vanessa Schulmann

For the past four years Vanessa Hava Schulmann has been conducting research on bones in the Zoological Teaching Collection at Freie Universität Berlin. On Monday, July 14, 2025, she presented her findings and hosted a discussion.

Jul 29, 2025

Academic Freedom Matters

A joint series by Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS

Apr 14, 2025

A Legacy of Exchange Reveals Fascinating Stories

Musicians and doctors, heroes and opportunists, luminaries and people long forgotten: students compile research findings in a blog on Arab-German history at Freie Universität Berlin

Mar 19, 2025

Gravestones and “Stolpersteine”

Historian Hanno Hochmuth has documented the stories of Jewish families with the help of students from Freie Universität Berlin

Mar 11, 2025