© Vlad Demartsev

Tue, 21-05-2024

Meerkat chit-chat

Konstanz researchers unravel the vocal interactions of meerkat groups and show they use two different types of interactions to stay in touch.

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© Midnight Motion and moonrock media

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‘Turing test’ for animal systems

What advantages do robots offer in the study of collective behaviour? How is robotic research influenced by biological systems?

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© Unsplash, Piron Guillaume

Tue, 09-01-2024

The legal dilemma of triage

The German law governing triage puts doctors in a predicament and criminalizes medical decisions, explains Alexandra Windsberger, a Konstanz-based leg

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© Image by Gerd Altmann / Pixabay

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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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© Michael L Smith.

Tue, 05-12-2023

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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© Universität Konstanz, Elisabeth Böker

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How we play together

Psychologists from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour are using EEG to research what games reveal about o

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The mystery of phosphite – a scientific detective story

Konstanz biologists have discovered a phosphorus-based bacterial metabolism that is both new and ancient.

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Genetic traces of the woolly rhinoceros – in the middle of southern Germany

A woolly rhinoceros in southern Germany?

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Collaborative research on proteostasis: a look back and ahead

Proteostasis research is a young interdisciplinary field dedicated to the fundamental biochemical processes of life.

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© Elisabeth Böker

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Not lazy at all: honey bee drones

Sometimes it is worthwhile to look at the details, to study aspects that seem to be uninteresting or were previously ignored, and see noteworthy pheno

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© Public domain.

Mon, 02-10-2023

People, cars and the elements

It contributed to a whole new perception of nature and yet soon became an environmental problem: How automobility changed people’s relationship to the

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© Erik Lucatero, Pixabay

Thu, 21-09-2023

Shadow profiles: the data of others

Shadow profiles in social networks contain information about people who are not members.

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© Sara Leigh Lewis

Fri, 29-09-2023

Can music fight pollution?

How are concerns about ecological degradation, human poverty and hunger crises expressed through music in African countries?

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© Christian Ziegler / MPI f. Verhaltensbiologie

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Computer vision and AI count bats in Africa’s largest colony

The method produced an overall estimate of between 750,000 and 1,000,000 bats in Kasanka National Park.

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What long-term negative impacts do colonial infrastructures still have today?

The Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) recently elected Timo Müller, professor of American studies at the University of Konstanz,

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Studying animal behaviour without markers

With a new marker less method it is now possible to track the gaze and fine-scaled behaviours of every individual bird and how that animal moves in th

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© Marisa Scarpulla

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"Out of the box": play and research

Sciart project on game developing

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© Vivek Hari Sridhar

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Blackbuck mating heaven

The researchers Hemal Naik, Akanksha Rathore, and Vivek Hari Sridhar went to Rajasthan, India, to study the mating behaviour of blackbucks from a bird

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© Eva Riehle

Thu, 16-11-2023

Research beyond the Arctic Circle

Studying the impacts of climate change where they are most apparent due to melting ice on sea and land.

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© Colin Lloyd unsplash / LeonhardS pixabay

Fri, 01-12-2023

Computer vision meets protest research

The "Center for Image Analysis i n the Social Sciences (CIASS)" at the University of Konstanz combines computer science methods with the ana

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