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Wednesday, 15. May 2024

Students discover new worlds at the University of Konstanz

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Researchers from the University of Konstanz gave students insight into the perception of insects as part of the Hegau-Bodensee-Seminar.
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Monday, 13. May 2024

Career paths must become more reliable

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At a podium discussion, experts from higher education and union representatives debated the future of academic careers – and a new model at the University of Konstanz.
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Friday, 10. May 2024

"Z'sämme!"

Swiss-German culture of academic collaboration on a firm foundation: Perspectives from the conference "Z’sämme | Zusammen!" hosted by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg.

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Friday, 12. April 2024

‘Turing test’ for animal systems

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What advantages do robots offer in the study of collective behaviour? How is robotic research influenced by biological systems? And what robot experiments are planned in the Imaging Hangar at the University of Konstanz?
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Monday, 08. January 2024

The legal dilemma of triage

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The German law governing triage puts doctors in a predicament and criminalizes medical decisions, explains Alexandra Windsberger, a Konstanz-based legal expert. She advocates for removing criminal law from triage decisions.
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Friday, 15. December 2023

All I want for Christmas: Rules for gift-giving

Sociologist Boris Holzer explains the unwritten rules for gift-giving and where they come from.

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Tuesday, 05. December 2023

Architectural marvels of honey bees and social wasps

Honey bees and social wasps developed a similar solution for nest building although evolution separated them 179 million years ago.

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Monday, 20. November 2023

How we play together

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Psychologists from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour are using EEG to research what games reveal about our ability to cooperate.
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Tuesday, 07. November 2023

The mystery of phosphite – a scientific detective story

Konstanz biologists have discovered a phosphorus-based bacterial metabolism that is both new and ancient. In a special role: a calculation from the 1980s, a sewage plant, a new bacterial organism, and a remnant from around 2.5 billion years ago.
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Thursday, 02. November 2023

Genetic traces of the woolly rhinoceros – in the middle of…

A woolly rhinoceros in southern Germany? Researchers from the universities in Konstanz and Tübingen as well as the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg reconstruct the flora and fauna of the Stone Age based on genetic clues in hyena coprolites.
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