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Wednesday, 12. July 2023

What long-term negative impacts do colonial infrastructures…

© Tororo, Urganda, 2010, U.S. Army Foto von John Hanson. No changes made. "Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)": https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

The Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) recently elected Timo Müller, professor of American studies at the University of Konstanz, as president. GAPS takes a critical look at European colonialism and its effects.
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Tuesday, 11. July 2023

Ethical considerations in conflict and development research

"An essential ethical requirement for any survey is, for example, that participation is voluntary, uncoerced and can be terminated at any time."
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Friday, 07. July 2023

A pulse of light makes polaritons disappear

© Alexandre Dmitriev, University of Gothenburg

Polaritons are a peculiar state, a kind of quasi-particles consisting of part-light and part-matter that can bring unexpected abilities to conventional chemical reactions.
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Friday, 07. July 2023

Blackbuck mating heaven

© Vivek Hari Sridhar

The researchers Hemal Naik, Akanksha Rathore, and Vivek Hari Sridhar went to Rajasthan, India, to study the mating behaviour of blackbucks from a bird's eye perspective. Read what they encountered during six adventurous weeks in the field.
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Friday, 30. June 2023

Studying animal behaviour without markers

With a new marker less method it is now possible to track the gaze and fine-scaled behaviours of every individual bird and how that animal moves in the space with others.
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Tuesday, 27. June 2023

"Out of the box": play and research

© Marisa Scarpulla

Sciart project on game developing
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Wednesday, 14. June 2023

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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Wednesday, 10. May 2023

Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to Konstanz students

On the occasion of Europe Day, 9 May, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke to students from across the European university network EUniWell. The University of Konstanz, too, took part in the live video call with Kyiv.
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Monday, 17. April 2023

10,000 locusts tracked

A locust swarm tagged and observed by special cameras in the Imaging Hangar of the University of Konstanz. The experiment allows to study the formation of marching bands of locusts for the first time in the lab.
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© Dr S. Kernbach, CYBRES GmbH

Thursday, 13. April 2023

About intelligent plants, robots and the subjectivity of…

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