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Herd & Hovering: Artists inspired by science

How do artists respond to the behaviour of herds of hoofed animals like zebras or antelopes?

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© Victor Rault / Captain Darwin

Fri, 09-12-2022

What Darwin would discover today

Biologist Eduardo Sampaio researched octopuses off Cape Verde.

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© Falling Walls Foundation

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Falling Walls: awards for Peter Baum and Iain Couzin

Two Konstanz researchers recognized by the Falling Walls Foundation and nominated for the "Science Breakthrough of the Year"

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© Christian Ziegler

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Study achieves longest continuous tracking of migrating insects

By flying with hawkmoths during migration, scientists reveal the insects employ sophisticated flight strategies similar to vertebrates.

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© Antonino Michienzi

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Genes, environment, and susceptibility to toxicants

As a new Carl Zeiss endowed professor for systems toxicology at the University of Konstanz, Ivano Amelio is investigating the molecular mechanisms beh

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© EarthRanger

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Code-free conservation

System lets conservationists analyze animal tracking data quickly and easily for rapid protection of wildlife

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© Christian Ziegler

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Fruit bats migrate with the green wave

Fruit bats respond to seasonal changes and often match peaks in resource abundance as Dr Edward Hurme from the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collec

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© Hal Gatewood, unsplash

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Moving furniture in the micro-world

An international research team led by physicists from Konstanz discovers a state of ultra-low static friction when rotating microscopic objects on cry

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© Hanja Brandl

Tue, 24-05-2022

Stress among wild life

How stress is transmitted from one animal to another is the study topic of behavioural ecologist and collective behaviour researcher Dr Hanja Brandl o

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© Dr. Philipp Schäfer

Mon, 29-04-2024

Long-lasting makeshift or how refugee inclusion is negotiated on the ground

Interview: Sociologist Dr Philipp Schäfer on the local reception of refugees in Leipzig – and how it has developed since 2012

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© Universität Konstanz

Wed, 20-07-2022

Everything fluctuates

It has been an exciting first year since the Collaborative Research Centre "Fluctuations and Nonlinearities in Classical and Quantum Matter beyon

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Fri, 01-04-2022

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 r

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Thu, 17-03-2022

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 a

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© Dr Elisabeth Böker

Tue, 08-03-2022

How animal swarms respond to threats

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

Tue, 08-03-2022

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 hi

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© Blair Costelloe

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AI experts and ecologists join forces to revolutionize wildlife research

A team of experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and animal ecology have put forth a new, cross-disciplinary approach intended to enhance research on

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© Nadja Haji, University of Konstanz

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The puzzle of the "lost" angular momentum

A research team from Konstanz succeeds in solving a decade-old physical puzzle: the question of the fate of angular momentum during the ultrafast dema

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© milivigerova/pixabay

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Negotiating Europe in the Mediterranean

Dr Heinrich Hartmann re-examines the history of Europe from the perspective of its rural peripheries in his Heisenberg project "European knowledg

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© Elisabeth Böker, University of Konstanz

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Saving animal lives using Big Data

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 tr

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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 researc

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