Research-News
HU in the top 100 of THE World University Rankings 2025
In the current THE Ranking, the HU is in 84th place in the group and fourth place in Germany.
Museums targeted by populists: open threats and creeping changes
Since 2020, the international project ‘CHAPTER’ has been investigating how right-wing populist forces in Poland, the UK and Germany influence museums. The researchers will present their findings at a conference at the HU from 7 to 9 October.
CUBES Circle research farm: test operation has started
Space-saving, energy-efficient, resource-saving, mobile and stackable - this is how researchers at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin (HU) envision food production in the city of the future
From Oxford to Berlin - Kate Stanton researches East German feminism
For her doctorate, the Oxford researcher is examining documents in German archives and talking to activists from the East German women's movement
Elephant mouths have whiskers but not where you think they would be — elephants are also “lefties” or “righties”
Unusual arrangement of whiskers and indirect feeding probably contribute to elephants' left and right proboscis behaviour