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Wednesday, 11. October 2023

Not lazy at all: honey bee drones

© Elisabeth Böker

Sometimes it is worthwhile to look at the details, to study aspects that seem to be uninteresting or were previously ignored, and see noteworthy phenomena come to light.
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Thursday, 05. October 2023

Collaborative research on proteostasis: a look back and…

Proteostasis research is a young interdisciplinary field dedicated to the fundamental biochemical processes of life.

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Wednesday, 27. September 2023

People, cars and the elements

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It contributed to a whole new perception of nature and yet soon became an environmental problem: How automobility changed people’s relationship to the environment and how this is reflected in American road literature is the subject of the ERC project of literary scholar Timo Müller, professor of Ame
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© Erik Lucatero, Pixabay

Monday, 18. September 2023

Shadow profiles: the data of others

Shadow profiles in social networks contain information about people who are not members. At the moment, shadow profiles are almost impossible to prevent using technical means, pose a collective problem for society and are a matter that has gone virtually unregulated so far.

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Friday, 11. August 2023

Can music fight pollution?

© Sara Leigh Lewis

How are concerns about ecological degradation, human poverty and hunger crises expressed through music in African countries? And how do artists use music as an instrument for climate justice?
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© Christian Ziegler / MPI f. Verhaltensbiologie

Friday, 28. July 2023

Computer vision and AI count bats in Africa’s largest…

The method produced an overall estimate of between 750,000 and 1,000,000 bats in Kasanka National Park.

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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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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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