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Friday, 06. June 2025

Tower power

© Daniela Perez, MPI-AB

Living worm towers are recorded in the wild for the first time, a rare example of collective hitchhiking in nature.
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© Brendan Barrett / Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Tuesday, 20. May 2025

Capuchin monkeys develop bizarre “fad” of abducting baby…

How cameras on a remote island captured the origin and spread of a novel social tradition

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Thursday, 27. February 2025

Scientists rewrite the rules of swarming locusts

A study recently published in Science reveals: Classical models of collective behaviour fail to explain the mechanisms driving desert locust swarms – an ecological phenomenon that affects millions of lives worldwide.
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Wednesday, 26. February 2025

"Expressions of gender variance have long been part of…

© Kyle, Unsplash

Donald Trump bans trans people from the U.S. army and from sports. Historian Jacob Bloomfield from the University of Konstanz concludes: "Trump’s executive order goes against basic fairness and the military’s historical acceptance of gender variance."
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© Dominic Cram

Friday, 21. February 2025

Alliances among animals

Some animals are capable of cooperating with members of other species.

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Thursday, 13. February 2025

YOLO-Behaviour: A new and faster way to extract animal…

© Alex Chan Hoi Hang, University of Konstanz

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour introduce the method YOLO-Behaviour: a new computer vision framework to automatically identify animal behaviours from videos.
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© Elisabeth Böker

Monday, 03. February 2025

Size makes all the difference

In a current project, Konstanz biologist Anna Stöckl is studying how insects cope with dynamic light environments.

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Tuesday, 14. January 2025

Bats surf storm fronts during continental migration

© Anton Vlaschenko

Scientists use ultra-light sensors connected like cell phones to study how bats migrate over Europe
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Thursday, 28. November 2024

Konstanz researcher receives Leibniz Dissertation Award

© Svea Pietschmann

Political scientist Hana Attia receives this year's Leibniz Dissertation Award in the category "Humanities & Social Sciences". Attia completed her dissertation on US sanctions at the University of Konstanz. She accepted the award on 27 November 2024 in Berlin.
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Wednesday, 27. November 2024

Laboratories on the way to more sustainability

© University of Konstanz, Marion Voigtmann

If it was not for science, we would hardly know anything about climate change. And yet, scientific research itself is a very resource-intensive task. Biochemist Bianca Schell advises scientific laboratories at the University of Konstanz on how they can operate more sustainably.
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