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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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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© Christian Jenewein

Thu, 20-01-2022

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 fi

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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 internat

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© Andreas Groß

Tue, 06-06-2023

High-tech microscope for protein structures

Research network at the University of Konstanz is working on advancing and adapting spin-based quantum light microscopy for the structural elucidation

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© Anna Roik

Wed, 13-10-2021

Helping coral reefs survive under climate change

A biologist from the University of Konstanz, along with an international group of re-searchers, calls for extending the natural adaptive capacity of c

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© AG Becks

Fri, 09-07-2021

Evolution in real time

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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Smartphone bans in the workplace

Study on smartphone bans in the workplace reveals possible benefits of “soft” bans – research project involving the University of Konstanz

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© Agamaszota, Pixabay

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Germans (mis-)interpret inequality

In their new “Inequality Barometer”, Konstanz researchers demonstrate: The German population often assesses the level of inequality incorrectly, under

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© Michael Griesser

Tue, 01-06-2021

Trust among corvids

Corvids use social information to protect themselves against deception by conspecifics from neighbouring territories

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© Trevor Fristoe and Mark van Kleunen. The Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera)

Mon, 31-05-2021

Dimensions of invasion success

Patterns and drivers of alien plant species invasiveness in Europe identified by an international research team led by Konstanz biologists

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© M. Nouvian. Alerted honey bee (Apis mellifera)

Wed, 26-05-2021

To sting or not to sting?

Scientists from Konstanz and Innsbruck uncovered how honeybees organise their collective defence in response to predators and used computational model

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Mon, 27-09-2021

Self-healing plastic from Konstanz

Plastic that repairs itself and can easily be recycled: More than five years ago, the team led by Konstanz chemist Professor Helmut Cölfen introduced

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© James Herndon

Mon, 26-04-2021

Learning about system stability from ants

Army ants collectively form complex, adaptable structures, without a need for communication

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