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"Innovation means creating something from nothing".

Solving the climate puzzle on the roof of the world

New technology revolutionizes the analysis of old ice

Two employees carry the ice cores, which are cut into pieces and ready for transport to Europe.

Four classes of planetary systems

How Giants Became Dwarfs

Four Bern researchers receive SNSF Consolidator Grants

These are the tricks that motivate us to buy at the supermarket

James Webb Space Telescope identifies origins of icy building blocks of life

For healthy soils, plants, animals - and people

Professor of plant science and mountain farmer Matthias Erb, sitting among plants in the Ostermundigen research greenhouse.

Students rewrite male-heavy Wikipedia

Conquer the world with curiosity

The Hasli station in Hinterkappelen with the micro-ecosystem boxes.

A cell compass for efficient "breathing" of grasses

One of the two "compass proteins" (POLAR, in pink) orients future cell division. The cell outlines on the developing leaf are shown in grey. © zvg

Survey on artificial intelligence in medicine

The prehistory of the exoplanet revolution

Nobel Laureate Didier Queloz , laughing

University of Bern joins European university alliance ENLIGHT

Main building of the University of Bern covered in snow in winter

Joy and sorrows at the Dies academicus 2022

Rector Christian Leumann at the Dies Academicus

Reliable planning tool for the path to the Paris climate target

Delegates at the COP21 climate conference in Paris 2015 gather in the plenary hall.

Astronomer and Nobel Laureate Prof. Didier Queloz gives Einstein Lectures 2022

Small asteroids are probably young

Valuable impulses for equal opportunities

Participants of the Prix Lux award ceremony to the NCCR "RNA & Disease" with the prize in the middle.

On the trail of dark matter with neutron spin clocks

Part of the experimental apparatus in the laboratory in Bern with doctoral student Ivo Schulthess.

Mental illness and social acceptance

Prof. Dr. med. Sebastian Walther at a lecture

Insects are strongly affected by climate change

Alpine farming promotes plant diversity

The emergence of alpine farming led to an increase in plant diversity in the Swiss Alps.

Better understanding the development of intestinal diseases

Glimmers of hope against climate fear

Bean plant on outstretched hand

The son's smile and the call from NASA

Space researcher Andreas Riedo at work

Award-winning image film of the University of Bern

General view of the main building with lawn in the foreground in summer © University of Bern

Discovering new cancer therapies in the "dark matter" of the human genome

DNA strand with visible protein chains

2022 was a normal summer in the 21st century

Drought from above

With metals against fungal infections

Petri dish with red agar on which a fungal strand in the shape of the element symbol for platinum (Pt) is growing.

Defence of the Earth with Bernese help

Part of the Earth's surface with spacecraft flying above it

How global warming affects astronomical observations

VLT telescope from which a laser beam protrudes.

AlveloliX wins Swiss Medtech Award 2022

Medal on speckled background

Two new rocky worlds around an ultracold star

The telescopes of the SPECULOOS Southern Observatory look up at the breathtaking night sky above the Atacama Desert in Chile.

A thousand days of CHEOPS

Space telescope CHEOPS next to the sun and other planets in space

The great knowledge festival inspires

Colourfully illuminated main building of the University of Bern at the Night of Research

Detect old-age diseases at an early stage thanks to sensors at home

Older woman on sofa with a book

The Woolly Honeygrass, the Common Grasshopper and Climate Change

Gertreidefeld

Technological advances in cancer therapy

Artificial and coloured image of tumour cells grown in an organoid

Improved vector vaccine against COVID-19

red white virus

Combined extreme events burden the oceans

Sea slug

James Webb Space Telescope detects carbon dioxide in exoplanet atmosphere

Exoplanet in space next to star

"Space research at the University of Bern is world class".

Two men wear paper glasses and look at screen

How best to promote biodiversity in vineyards

Vineyards

UniBE Foundation establishes endowed professorship for tissue histology

Woman in the laboratory looking through a microscope

Wyss Foundation supports University of Bern

Christian Leumann (Rector of the University of Bern), Hansjörg Wyss (entrepreneur and philanthropist, Wyss Foundation), Christoph Ammann (President of the Government of the Canton of Bern) and André Nietlisbach (Cantonal Project Manager and Secretary General of the Department of Economic Affairs of the Canton of Bern) at the signing of the contract.

"As a researcher, I remain sceptical".

Portrait Olivier Schären in front of plinth

On the trail of the riddles of sleep

"Diverse and regional food makes us more resilient".

Food from the Bernese food bar on a blue background.

An unexpectedly positive experiment

Portrait Felix Maier

Sustainable tourism through social innovation

"I felt like I was part of something much bigger."

Charlotte Kern and Verena Schöning work together at the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, (© CAIM, University of Bern)

"I want to make interfaces into seams".

Pharmaceutical work of an employee in the laboratory. Here, sterile production of chemotherapy.

"Don't give up, even if it doesn't work out right away".

Portrait Mattheus Notter

Against antibiotic resistance in humans and animals

"The Fellowship came at exactly the right moment".

Artificial intelligence advances medicine

Portrait Prof. Dr Stavroula Mougiakakou

Good research is reproducible and moves us forward

Angelika Kalt and Hugues Abriel sitting at the table during the interview

When art transports science

Project Vitaport (National Centre of Competence in Research TransCure) - Portrait Valentina Rossetti (Scientific Officer of TransCure at the University of Bern) and Juliane Wolski (Head of Exhibitions and Lecturer at the School of Design Bern and Biel). © Manu Friederich

"There is a desire for fear"

Blurred person in crowd; symbolic image of fear

Campus Tour of the University of Bern

University of Bern - Knowledge creates value

AI MedTech Founders - How to translate your research into a startup

Wed, 08 March 2023

Auditorium Felix Frey, sitem-insel, Freiburgstrasse 3, 3010 Bern

Dies academicus

Sat, 03 December 2022

Casino, Casinoplatz 1, Bern

Research Night

Event announcement, Night of Research on Saturday, 10 September 2022 from 4 p.m. to midnight

Sat, 10 September 2022

University of Bern - Grosse Schanze, Bern (CH)