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Monday, 07. March 2022

How animal swarms respond to threats

© Dr Elisabeth Böker

With the help of microrobots, Konstanz physicists decode how swarms of animals respond effectively to danger
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Monday, 07. March 2022

The language of the eyes

© Fumihiro Kano, Kumamoto Sanctuary of Kyoto University

Dr Fuhimiro Kano decodes the relevance of the human white of the eye for communication
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© Carter Loftus , Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Tuesday, 01. March 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 history (Adapted version of the original press release from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior).

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Thursday, 17. February 2022

AI experts and ecologists join forces to revolutionize…

© Blair Costelloe

A team of experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and animal ecology have put forth a new, cross-disciplinary approach intended to enhance research on wildlife species and make more effective use of the vast amounts of data now being collected thanks to new technology.
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Friday, 21. January 2022

The puzzle of the "lost" angular momentum

© Nadja Haji, University of Konstanz

A research team from Konstanz succeeds in solving a decade-old physical puzzle: the question of the fate of angular momentum during the ultrafast demagnetization of nickel crystals by laser light.
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Thursday, 20. January 2022

Negotiating Europe in the Mediterranean

© milivigerova/pixabay

Dr Heinrich Hartmann re-examines the history of Europe from the perspective of its rural peripheries in his Heisenberg project "European knowledge networks and rural development policies in the 20th century Mediterranean".
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Monday, 10. January 2022

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 research culture as one of its guiding principles.
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Monday, 10. January 2022

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 internationally publish and share their research data and make them citable in the long term.
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Tuesday, 21. December 2021

Saving animal lives using Big Data

© Elisabeth Böker, University of Konstanz

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 tracking revolution.
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© Christian Jenewein

Tuesday, 30. November 2021

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 first time. This lays the foundation for the synthesis of novel nanostructured solids with previously unexplored properties.

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