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Thursday, 09. April 2020

Judging disinformation and misinformation on Covid-19

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What role do disinformation and misinformation play in our dealings with the virus? How dangerous are they and how do they spread via social media? What can science, what can legislation do to counter fake news in times of COVID-19?
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Tuesday, 07. April 2020

Coronavirus and the EU

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What role has the European Union (EU) played so far in the coronavirus crisis? What role can it play? And how does the spread of the coronavirus affect the EU's intra-European and international relations?
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Thursday, 02. April 2020

University of Konstanz develops visualization tool for…

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Computer scientists in the team led by Professor Daniel Keim, professor of data analysis and visualization at the University of Konstanz, developed a visualization tool called “Coronavis” (abbreviated for “corona visualization”).
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Friday, 27. March 2020

Science lends a hand in the crisis: Laboratory of the…

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A team at the University of Konstanz, including Professor Christof Hauck, Professor Marcus Groettrup and Professor Thomas Mayer from the Department of Biology, is currently assisting Labor Dr. Brunner, a local medical diagnostics lab, with testing for the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).
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Friday, 20. March 2020

How VR became a key to unlocking animal behaviour

Scientists from the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" and the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior are pushing the limits of Virtual Reality to understand decision-making in animal collectives
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Thursday, 12. March 2020

“I couldn’t imagine the scale until I saw it with my own…

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Dr Einat Couzin-Fuchs from the Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz has just returned from the locust outbreak in Kenya, where her team of researchers is doing something rarely done with natural plagues: basic scientific research.
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Wednesday, 04. March 2020

A potential new pathway linking stress to heart disease

The hormone aldosterone – which can be measured from saliva – shows promise for understanding how psychological stress can lead to cardiovascular disease
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Wednesday, 04. March 2020

“Equal Pay Day”: Inequality in the Labour Market – …

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17 March is ‘Equal Pay Day’: By that date, 21 percent of the year is over, exactly the 21 percent that women in Germany on average earn less than men.
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Monday, 02. March 2020

Stress in Space

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Thursday, 13. February 2020

Brain measurements can reveal success of alcohol risk…

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By studying how our brains “synchronise” during shared experiences, Konstanz researchers are shedding light on what makes public health campaigns effective—and in the process paving the way to revealing the neural underpinnings of group processes.
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