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Thursday, 31. October 2024

Bats use an acoustic cognitive map for navigation

© Jens Rydell

Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over kilometer-scale distances using echolocation alone.
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Thursday, 24. October 2024

How research supports and connects integration players

Municipal integration coordinators work in cities and municipalities to foster the integration of local migrants. They often work alone on a highly charged topic.
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Monday, 21. October 2024

Preparing officers for the exceptional case

Seven years ago, Konstanz cultural scholar Kirsten Mahlke and her team developed a digital learning application for police officers in training: The tool teaches professional skills for delivering death notifications to a deceased person's relatives. Time to reflect and take stock of this work.
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Monday, 21. October 2024

Transfer gives research new contours

More transfer - this wish has been expressed more and more frequently to universities and other research institutes. However, transfer projects often develop a momentum of their own that cannot be planned. An interview with Kirsten Mahlke
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Thursday, 10. October 2024

Understanding the psyche of offenders

Gilda Giebel studied forensic psychology at the University of Konstanz before working with sex offenders in preventive detention. How did study and research prepare her for the challenging situations in her everyday work? A look into an otherwise closed-off world.
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Tuesday, 01. October 2024

Coral protection, a human right

© Sebastian Szereday, Coralku, Malaysia

To save coral reefs from climate change, scientists are proposing an unusual idea: declaring coral protection a human right. Christian Voolstra, a biologist from Konstanz and president of the International Coral Reef Society (ICRS), explains why this could work.
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© Eduardo Sampaio

Sunday, 22. September 2024

Unlocking the secrets of multispecies hunting

Scientists have made extraordinary discoveries about how otherwise-solitary octopuses and various fish species coordinate their hunts: fish serve as guides, finding prey and flagging its location, and the octopus uses its flexible arms to capture the hidden prey.

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Wednesday, 04. September 2024

Waggle dance mysteries

© James Foster

How do bees navigate when the directions in the waggle dances by other bees are fuzzy? Dive into the intriguing research on bee behaviour, which occurs on the campus at the University Konstanz, to find out this research question.
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Thursday, 22. August 2024

Taking on new perspectives

© GameLab, Universität Konstanz

What possibilities does a new research setup offer? This is often not foreseeable in advance and the full range of applications only becomes apparent while the system is being used. A new 3D recording studio has just been created in the GameLab at the University of Konstanz.
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Tuesday, 06. August 2024

Researchers listen to the hearts of bats in flight

© Christian Ziegler

Unique recordings show that bats can ramp up heart rate from 6 to 900 b.p.m within minutes.
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