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Thursday, 25. June 2020

Shelling out for dinner – Dolphins learn foraging skills…

© Dolphin shelling. Image: Dr. Sonja Wild – Dolphin Innovation Project

A new study by Konstanz biologist Dr Sonja Wild demonstrates for the first time that dolphins can learn foraging techniques outside the mother-calf bond
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Wednesday, 24. June 2020

Measure squeezing in a novel way

© “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

Scientists at the Department of Physics at the University of Konstanz have developed a completely new method of measuring squeezing – a potential starting point for high-precision sensor technology
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Wednesday, 10. June 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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Tuesday, 09. June 2020

The danger of broken bonds

© Image: Sonja Metzger

Author of a new study showing that humans disturb the social lives of wild giraffes, Damien Farine discusses why disrupted relationships may be a silent killer for social species - even one of the world's most recognizable animals.
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Monday, 18. May 2020

Scientists dissect the complex choices of animals

© Image: Alex Boehm

Scientists from the Univeristy of Konstanz and the co-located Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior turn to CT scanning and 3D printing technology to engineer a precise answer to the question: what are animals choosing when they choose a home?
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Tuesday, 05. May 2020

"To remember the past is to work on the future"

© Image: MichaelGaida/Pixabay

8 May 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War – In an interview, Aleida Assmann, Konstanz professor for cultural studies, explains how the way this day was perceived shaped the culture of remembrance in post-war Germany.
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Tuesday, 28. April 2020

“There’s no such thing as the ‘one’ Africa’”

© Bild: Arek Socha/Pixabay

Africa is at the focus of the latest report by the Expert Council of German Foundations for Integration and Migration. As members of the Expert Council, Konstanz sociologist Professor Claudia Diehl and Konstanz jurist Professor Daniel Thym are co-authors.
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Wednesday, 22. April 2020

What about educational equity?

© Image: Taken/Pixabay

We run the risk of regressing in terms of educational and gender equity, says Professor Axinja Hachfeld, educational researcher in Konstanz.
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Tuesday, 14. April 2020

Inequality and the coronavirus

Doesn’t the coronavirus pandemic make us all equal? Where will society stand after the crisis? What can the welfare state do, and will the population’s trust remain unchanged? Professor Marius R. Busemeyer, equality researcher at the University of Konstanz, answers these questions in an interview.
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Thursday, 09. April 2020

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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