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Friday, 13. February 2026

Bringing order to nano chaos with centrifugal force

How do you sort tiny nanoparticles? For this goal, colloid chemist Alexander Wittemann has breathed new life into an old technique, using a centrifuge that was employed in the 1960s to produce vaccines
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Tuesday, 02. December 2025

Physics as a mountain landscape

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Physicists and mathematicians at the University of Konstanz, ETH Zürich (Switzerland) and CNR INO in Trento (Italy) use concepts from topography to topologically classify and investigate driven-dissipative nonlinear systems and their abrupt phase transitions.
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© Almut Hanselmann

Tuesday, 11. November 2025

Long-lost plant species rediscovered in Lake Constance

Good environmental news is rare these days. All the better that we can report one here: A long-lost plant species has been rediscovered in Lake Constance. Research diver Almut Hanselmann from the University of Konstanz came across the plant during a routine dive.

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Thursday, 24. July 2025

Falling Walls Lab Baden-Württemberg 2025

© University of Konstanz / Philipp Uricher (www.philippuricher.com)

Ten early career researchers, ten visionary ideas – participants at the Falling Walls Lab Baden-Württemberg combined research spirit, social relevance and creativity.
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Friday, 27. June 2025

A close look at recreational boating on German lakes

© W. Ostendorp

Motorized aquatic sports negatively impact the ecology of lakes in Germany. Researchers at the University of Konstanz and the Landesumweltamt Brandenburg (Brandenburg State Office for the Environment) recently published a comprehensive study on the topic.
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Friday, 06. June 2025

Tower power

© Daniela Perez, MPI-AB

Living worm towers are recorded in the wild for the first time, a rare example of collective hitchhiking in nature.
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© Brendan Barrett / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Tuesday, 20. May 2025

Capuchin monkeys develop bizarre “fad” of abducting baby…

How cameras on a remote island captured the origin and spread of a novel social tradition

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Thursday, 27. February 2025

Scientists rewrite the rules of swarming locusts

A study recently published in Science reveals: Classical models of collective behaviour fail to explain the mechanisms driving desert locust swarms – an ecological phenomenon that affects millions of lives worldwide.
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Wednesday, 26. February 2025

"Expressions of gender variance have long been part of…

© Kyle, Unsplash

Donald Trump bans trans people from the U.S. army and from sports. Historian Jacob Bloomfield from the University of Konstanz concludes: "Trump’s executive order goes against basic fairness and the military’s historical acceptance of gender variance."
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© Dominic Cram

Friday, 21. February 2025

Alliances among animals

Some animals are capable of cooperating with members of other species.

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