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Thursday, 20. January 2022

Negotiating Europe in the Mediterranean

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Dr Heinrich Hartmann re-examines the history of Europe from the perspective of its rural peripheries in his Heisenberg project "European knowledge networks and rural development policies in the 20th century Mediterranean".
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Monday, 10. January 2022

University of Konstanz: Open Science as a guiding principle

The University of Konstanz is one of the first German universities to adopt an Open Science Policy and declare a broader understanding of open research culture as one of its guiding principles.
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Monday, 10. January 2022

KonDATA: platform for open research data

Sharing research data is essential for research and science: All University of Konstanz researchers can now use the new repository KonDATA to internationally publish and share their research data and make them citable in the long term.
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Tuesday, 21. December 2021

Saving animal lives using Big Data

© Elisabeth Böker, University of Konstanz

The Movebank ecosystem of tools offers a one-stop-shop solution to storing, sharing, and making sense of the deluge of data generated by the animal tracking revolution.
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© Christian Jenewein

Tuesday, 30. November 2021

Binary mesocrystals from the nano-building kit

Team led by Konstanz researcher produces three-dimensional mesocrystals from two different types of nanocrystals - platinum and magnetite - for the first time. This lays the foundation for the synthesis of novel nanostructured solids with previously unexplored properties.

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Monday, 08. November 2021

High-tech microscope for protein structures

© Andreas Groß

Research network at the University of Konstanz is working on advancing and adapting spin-based quantum light microscopy for the structural elucidation of proteins in living cells – 1.3 million euros funding for the acquisition of the high-tech microscope.
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Tuesday, 05. October 2021

Helping coral reefs survive under climate change

© Anna Roik

A biologist from the University of Konstanz, along with an international group of re-searchers, calls for extending the natural adaptive capacity of corals through nature-based approaches.
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Friday, 09. July 2021

Evolution in real time

© AG Becks

Biologist Professor Lutz Becks and his team observe the genetic imprint of the surprisingly rapid transition from unicellular to multicellular life
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Wednesday, 16. June 2021

Smartphone bans in the workplace

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Study on smartphone bans in the workplace reveals possible benefits of “soft” bans – research project involving the University of Konstanz
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Wednesday, 02. June 2021

Germans (mis-)interpret inequality

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In their new “Inequality Barometer”, Konstanz researchers demonstrate: The German population often assesses the level of inequality incorrectly, underestimating wealth inequality in particular. This also has political consequences.
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