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New study by researchers at Freie Universität published in “Nature Communications” shows that independent environmental stressors such as heat, drought, and microplastics affect soils differently when combined

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“We Have to Keep Talking to Each Other. These Conversations Build Trust.” An interview with sociologist and democracy researcher Professor Swen Hutter on polarization, modes of civic engagement, and the role of academia

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International Summer and Winter University FUBiS at Freie Universität Berlin Starts New Year with 142 Participants. Highest number of winter term participants since 2020

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Workshops in Amarna: Many works of art from ancient Egypt, including the bust of Nefertiti, originate from the brief reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten. An international team of researchers aims to find out how artisans worked more than 3,000 years ago.

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Professor Barbara Vetter Receives the Leibniz Prize 2026 from the German Research Foundation for work on the metaphysics and epistemology of modality

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For centuries Jewish communities living in Iraq cultivated a multitude of distinct dialects. Israeli linguist Assaf Bar-Moshe wants to preserve them for posterity.

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Hannah Arendt died fifty years ago, on December 4, 1975. Her reflections on authoritarian regimes and the dangers of concentrated power and mass ideology are highly relevant. Scholars at Freie Universität are working on a critical edition of her work

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