As Greece expanded, Homer’s epic also spread to the western Mediterranean. A search for clues in Calabria, where the builder of the Trojan Hor...

Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and the FMI have created the most detailed map yet of the mouse motor cortex. The map reveals 16 distinct subregions and sheds new light on the...

Brown adipose tissue responds to cold by burning energy to produce heat. As a natural calorie burner, it could play a key role in tackling obesity. Endocrinologist Professor Matthias Betz of the Unive...

How do we perceive our surroundings, and what criteria do we use to evaluate them? The philosopher Antonietta Di Giulio is researching this topic. In this interview, she explains how different concept...

Botond Roska, a professor at the University of Basel and director of science at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), will receive the 2026 António Champalimaud Vision Awa...

Researchers from Cambridge and Basel have developed small molecules that could make cancer immunotherapies more effective. They work in two ways: They prompt macrophages to engulf cancer cells and alt...

Six female scientists at the University of Basel have been awarded one of the prestigious ERC Starting Grants. They will receive between 1.5 and 2.3 million euros over five years to establish or expan...

Liver cancer is difficult to treat because tumors vary greatly from patient to patient. Researchers at the University of Basel have captured this diversity by creating a collection of mini-tumors, whi...

Is it true that money alone doesn’t bring happiness? Or is that just a cliché to comfort those who are less well-off and who look at the rich and famous with a certain envy?

Everyday occurrences can inspire research and provide an impetus for academic insights. This is illustrated by a research project about how people from diverse backgrounds live together.

As World War II drew closer, the University Library Basel (UB) moved valuable holdings to safety and took precautions against bombing and espi...

Why does staying awake inevitably make us sleepy? Researchers at the University of Basel have identified neuronal populations in the brain of mice that become activated during prolonged wakefulness an...

Forgot to take your pill or did your condom break? For situations like these, there is the “morning-after pill”. A tool that emerged from a research project at the University of Basel is designed to m...

What is heat, and what is useful work if a machine consists only of an atom and light particles? In modern quantum technologies, this kind of question connects thermodynamics with quantum physics. Res...

A new EU strategy is placing greater emphasis on artificial intelligence in the management of heart disease. Legal researcher Hannah van Kolfschooten believes this is premature. Among other things, sh...

Researchers at the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich have developed a new method to reveal the collective motion of electrons in one of the most elusive states of matter: the ...

How can transport costs be distributed more fairly? A study from Basel shows how mobility pricing affects travel behaviour.

Botany professor Ansgar Kahmen has been studying Switzerland’s forests for years. There has never been a summer as hot and dry as that of 2026 since records began. It is already clear that the forests...

Modern therapies have transformed care for people with multiple sclerosis (MS). Yet the disease continues to progress in some patients, even in the absence of relapses. Detecting and treating this gra...

How do blood vessels form to reliably supply the body with oxygen and nutrients? A research team at the University of Basel, has uncovered a k...

Can older people still determine their daily lives and make decisions for themselves when they rely on care? A team of researchers at the Univ...

How would a society without coins and banknotes function? And what role does the government play in this? A thought experiment.

Money is based on a system of trust, promises and expectations. This makes it possible to accrue debts. Far from being a deviation from the no...

Researchers show that, over thousands of years, humans have actually increased—rather than reduced—plant diversity through agriculture.

Researchers demonstrate several unusual states of superconductivity in graphene.

Electrolyte and water balance, blood pressure and much more: Hormones keep numerous processes in the body in a delicate equilibrium. This can be disrupted by substances from the environment, such as t...

Researchers at University of Basel, Switzerland, developed a miniature robot to simplify and automate dental treatments.

Some people report being particularly sensitive to electromagnetic fields. Epidemiologist Martin Röösli debates whether cellphone masts and Wi-Fi hotspots are really to blame for their symptoms.

A study of zebrafish provides new clues that the cerebellum might be involved in restless legs syndrome.

Iran, Venezuela, Gaza, Ukraine: International law is being violated all over the world. We talk to Andreas Müller, an expert on international law, about the past and present of a fragile but enduring ...

The gut and brain are closely connected: a study in fruit flies shows how gut function influences sleep, food intake and survival.

Anyone who has to live on less than three dollars a day has to become the manager of their own survival. At the same time, poverty is being criminalized, as legal scholar Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer ...

The oldest coins in the Mediterranean were found in what is now western Turkey, but the circulation of coinage was not ubiquitous in the ancient world. Rather, bartering was the dominant economic syst...

New therapies and early diagnosis are transforming how Alzheimer’s disease is understood and treated.

Researchers in Basel and Zurich are developing an antibiotic-free therapy to prevent dangerous meningitis in newborns.

Literary scholars Moniek Kuijpers and Tina Ternes investigate how Shared Reading affects people’s well-being. On the occasion of the Schweizer Vorlesetag on 27 May, they offer insights into their rese...

Climate change weakens lakes’ purification: shorter winter mixing reduces nitrogen removal – with impacts on marine ecosystems.

A University of Basel study shows how different diets shape the evolution of intestinal cells in cichlid fishes.

Intense exercise may complement stem cell donation treatment by mobilizing beneficial blood stem cells in a targeted way.

The adult immune system responds to viruses acquired at birth but remains only partially effective.

Researchers are presenting a method for specifically transplanting healthy mitochondria into diseased cells.

Excavations beneath Basel’s Stadtcasino uncovered graves from the 17th century, including plague burials. Analysis by researchers at the University of Basel shows that it was primarily young people fr...