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Wednesday, 24. January 2024

Research beyond the Arctic Circle

© Eva Riehle

Studying the impacts of climate change where they are most apparent due to melting ice on sea and land. What seems like a charming plan from the armchair of your home office, actually demands a lot of organization ahead of time and energy to implement.
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Tuesday, 23. January 2024

A good first impression and a broad perspective

A collaborative research environment is key for establishing a new research group: insights from bioinformatician Andreas Gruber, funded within the framework of the Joint Federal Government-Länder Tenure-Track Programme.
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Thursday, 18. January 2024

Too new for the scientific community

© University of Konstanz, Dreisatz

What do you do when no one believes your scientific discovery? Physicist Alfred Leitenstorfer describes how a new approach met with great scepticism among the scientific community – and what he did to ultimately convince it.
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Monday, 15. January 2024

Mediterranean networks, Corsican clans and the transit point…

For portions of today's society, technological and infrastructural progress such as AI-guided transportation routes, easy customization of the power supply via mouse click and automated subways is indispensable. For others, these developments are unsettling or even frightening.

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Monday, 08. January 2024

The legal dilemma of triage

© Unsplash, Piron Guillaume

The German law governing triage puts doctors in a predicament and criminalizes medical decisions, explains Alexandra Windsberger, a Konstanz-based legal expert. She advocates for removing criminal law from triage decisions.
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Friday, 15. December 2023

All I want for Christmas: Rules for gift-giving

Sociologist Boris Holzer explains the unwritten rules for gift-giving and where they come from.

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Thursday, 14. December 2023

Help getting started, support for students and a welcome…

© Katrin Binner

The Deutschlandstipendium (Germany scholarship) provides funding for almost 50 students at the University of Konstanz. High-achieving students involved in social projects are the target group for this scholarship.
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© Michael L Smith.

Tuesday, 05. December 2023

Architectural marvels of honey bees and social wasps

Honey bees and social wasps developed a similar solution for nest building although evolution separated them 179 million years ago.

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Monday, 20. November 2023

How we play together

© Universität Konstanz, Elisabeth Böker

Psychologists from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour are using EEG to research what games reveal about our ability to cooperate.
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Tuesday, 07. November 2023

The mystery of phosphite – a scientific detective story

Konstanz biologists have discovered a phosphorus-based bacterial metabolism that is both new and ancient. In a special role: a calculation from the 1980s, a sewage plant, a new bacterial organism, and a remnant from around 2.5 billion years ago.
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