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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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© Laborräume der Zellbiologie der Universität Konstanz. Bild: Kathrin Zander/Universität Konstanz

Thu, 23-04-2020

Science lends a hand in the crisis: Laboratory of the University of Konstanz assists with corona diagnostics

A team at the University of Konstanz, including Professor Christof Hauck, Professor Marcus Groettrup and Professor Thomas Mayer from the Department of

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Mon, 30-03-2020

How VR became a key to unlocking animal behaviour

Scientists from the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Be

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Fri, 20-03-2020

A potential new pathway linking stress to heart disease

The hormone aldosterone – which can be measured from saliva – shows promise for understanding how psychological stress can lead to cardiovascular dise

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Mon, 22-03-2021

Stress in Space

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Tue, 31-03-2020

Brain measure­ments can reveal success of alcohol risk mes­sages

By studying how our brains “synchronise” during shared experiences, Konstanz researchers are shedding light on what makes public health campaigns effe

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Cultural Studies Research Centre founded

New research centre at the University of Konstanz brings together interdisciplinary research in cultural studies

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Voluntary organ donation

Video interview with Professor Jacob Rosenthal from the Department of Philosophy and Professor Friedrich Breyer from the Department of Economics on th

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Thu, 19-12-2019

Immune to influence

A University of Konstanz study examining vaccine-related attitudes reveals that our beliefs are so resilient that we effectively immunize ourselves to

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