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Friday, 10. June 2022
Fruit bats migrate with the green wave
© Christian ZieglerFruit bats respond to seasonal changes and often match peaks in resource abundance as Dr Edward Hurme from the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour of the University of Konstanz discovered. read more -
Friday, 10. June 2022
Moving furniture in the micro-world
© Hal Gatewood, unsplashAn international research team led by physicists from Konstanz discovers a state of ultra-low static friction when rotating microscopic objects on crystalline surfaces. read more -
Tuesday, 24. May 2022
Stress among wild life
© Hanja BrandlHow stress is transmitted from one animal to another is the study topic of behavioural ecologist and collective behaviour researcher Dr Hanja Brandl of the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour read more -
Monday, 16. May 2022
Everything fluctuates
© Universität KonstanzIt has been an exciting first year since the Collaborative Research Centre "Fluctuations and Nonlinearities in Classical and Quantum Matter beyond Equilibrium" has been launched to explore one of the fundamental characteristics of the world around us – noise. read more -
Wednesday, 23. March 2022
Achieving excellence with role models
Professor Salma Kuhlmann and Dr Gabriela Michalek are utilizing the "Konstanz Women in Mathematics" initiative to show female early career researchers all the possibilities open to them in the field between algebra and control theory. read more -
Thursday, 17. March 2022
ERC Consolidator Grants for Meg Crofoot and Timo Müller
The renowned and generously funded grants from the European Research Council support projects on the social aspects of sleep in free-ranging baboons and on the experience of early automobility in American literature. read more -
Monday, 07. March 2022
How animal swarms respond to threats
© Dr Elisabeth BökerWith the help of microrobots, Konstanz physicists decode how swarms of animals respond effectively to danger read more - © Carter Loftus , Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Tuesday, 01. March 2022
No time to nap in nature
Sleep study on a troop of wild baboons reveals that sacrificing sleep to meet pressing demands is common—and might even be part of our evolutionary history (Adapted version of the original press release from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior). read more
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Thursday, 17. February 2022
AI experts and ecologists join forces to revolutionize…
© Blair CostelloeA team of experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and animal ecology have put forth a new, cross-disciplinary approach intended to enhance research on wildlife species and make more effective use of the vast amounts of data now being collected thanks to new technology. read more -
Friday, 21. January 2022
The puzzle of the "lost" angular momentum
© Nadja Haji, University of KonstanzA research team from Konstanz succeeds in solving a decade-old physical puzzle: the question of the fate of angular momentum during the ultrafast demagnetization of nickel crystals by laser light. read more