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Thursday, 12. May 2022

Freigeist Fellowship for Dr Hannah Williams

© Dr Hannah Williams

Why a young scientist is on the search of the Optimal Movement Theory
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© Axel Giersch, Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensbiologie

Monday, 09. May 2022

Like animal, like man

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize laureate Iain Couzin talks about research for which he will use the prize money of 2.5 million euros

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Wednesday, 27. April 2022

Long-lasting makeshift or how refugee inclusion is…

© Dr. Philipp Schäfer

Interview: Sociologist Dr Philipp Schäfer on the local reception of refugees in Leipzig – and how it has developed since 2012
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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.
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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.
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Tuesday, 15. March 2022

The “Information War” in Russia

Can Russia's control of national media be successful? Interview with political scientist Professor Nils Weidmann
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Monday, 07. March 2022

How animal swarms respond to threats

© Dr Elisabeth Böker

With the help of microrobots, Konstanz physicists decode how swarms of animals respond effectively to danger
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© 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).

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Thursday, 17. February 2022

AI experts and ecologists join forces to revolutionize…

© Blair Costelloe

A 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.
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Friday, 21. January 2022

The puzzle of the "lost" angular momentum

© Nadja Haji, University of Konstanz

A 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.
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