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A general influenza vaccine

New vaccination method for lasting protection against all known influenza mutations in preclinical testing phase – potentially effective also against

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User-friendly AI for animal behaviour

Developed by PhD student Tristan Walter and Professor Iain Couzin, the easy to use tool automatically tracks hundreds of individual animals.

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Mon, 17-05-2021

When fly larvae are hungry

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© AG Burkard | Schematic image of the new spin qubits consisting of four electrons (red) with their spins (blue) in the surrounding semi-conductor structure (grey)

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The road to quantum computing

How is quantum computer development currently progressing in Germany and Europe?

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Mon, 22-03-2021

More acceptance for animal-free research methods

University of Konstanz is part of newly founded “3R Network Baden-Württemberg”

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© University of Konstanz/Kathrin Zander

Thu, 28-10-2021

Expanded SARS-CoV-2 screening at the University of Konstanz

Since the beginning of November 2020, the Department of Biology at the University of Konstanz started offering voluntary RT-PCR-based rapid testing fo

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© Danai Papageorgiou

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Group size and makeup affect how social birds move together

Scientists from the University of Konstanz and co-located Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior have used high-resolution GPS tracking methods to pr

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© The Jordan Lab, Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensbiologie

Mon, 19-10-2020

Why bad bosses can be lonely at the top

Scientists taught groups of fish to solve a task to earn a reward—and in the process shed light on why aggressive leaders might be the least effective

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Searching together: a lesson from rats

Concentrate on your own task but also pay attention to others—this is the key rule for success, at least for rats when exploring as a group

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Avoiding summer’s sting

Stinging insects—especially those with a predilection for our picnics—can be the sting in the tail of summer.

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© Image: Andy03/Pixabay

Fri, 10-07-2020

Collective behaviour research reveals secrets of successful football teams

Research team with participation of the University of Konstanz analyses movement profiles and teamwork of football teams

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© Image: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

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The sixth sense of animals: an early warning system for earthquakes?

Continuously observing animals with motion sensors could improve earthquake prediction – a research project from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Be

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© Image: Anna Roik

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Stress testing “coral in a box”

Save the corals: Mobile rapid test to assess coral thermotolerance developed in an international collaboration with the University of Konstanz

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© Dolphin shelling. Image: Dr. Sonja Wild – Dolphin Innovation Project

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Shelling out for dinner – Dolphins learn foraging skills from peers

A new study by Konstanz biologist Dr Sonja Wild demonstrates for the first time that dolphins can learn foraging techniques outside the mother-calf bo

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© “Satellites” in the spectrum of a vibrating nanostring (lower image insert) for increasing drive power. The different brightnesses of the upper (green) and lower (blue) satellite encode the strength of the squeezing (upper image insert). Image: Weig group

Wed, 24-06-2020

Measure squeezing in a novel way

Scientists at the Department of Physics at the University of Konstanz have developed a completely new method of measuring squeezing – a potential star

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© Image: Sonja Metzger

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The danger of broken bonds

Author of a new study showing that humans disturb the social lives of wild giraffes, Damien Farine discusses why disrupted relationships may be a sile

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Wed, 10-06-2020

Physics principle explains order and disorder of swarms

Physicist from the University of Konstanz prove correlation between behaviour of collective animal systems and a so-called “critical point”

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© Image: Alex Boehm

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Scientists dissect the complex choices of animals

Scientists from the Univeristy of Konstanz and the co-located Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior turn to CT scanning and 3D printing technology t

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Interviews with researchers about the coronavirus

In a series of interviews, experts from different departments at the University of Konstanz and the Konstanz Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” comment on current issues in conjunction with the proliferation of the coronavirus.

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© Image: Silas Camargo Silão/Pixabay

Thu, 02-04-2020

University of Konstanz develops visualization tool for illustration of critical care bed capacities all over Germany

Computer scientists in the team led by Professor Daniel Keim, professor of data analysis and visualization at the University of Konstanz, developed a

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