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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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Monday, 20. March 2023

Observing group-living animals with drones and computer…

New method to study the movement, behaviour, and environmental context of group-living animals using drones and computer vision.

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Wednesday, 08. March 2023

Neural puppeteer

Artificial intelligence (AI) reconstructs motion sequences of humans and animals
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Wednesday, 01. March 2023

The map to human behaviour

Manfred Fuchs Prize for Fumihiro Kano’s animal behaviour research
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Monday, 27. February 2023

Swarm research for Terra X

Three researchers from the University of Konstanz involved as experts in the documentary series Schlaue Schwärme
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Tuesday, 14. February 2023

Why selfishness can lead to fairness

Physicists at the University of Konstanz's Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" confirm a 50-year-old hypothesis about why selfish behaviour leads to the formation of herds.
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Monday, 28. November 2022

Herd & Hovering: Artists inspired by science

How do artists respond to the behaviour of herds of hoofed animals like zebras or antelopes? The art exhibition "Herd & Hovering" in the foyer of the University of Konstanz adopts scientific findings of animal behaviour research in artistic design – from 3D animations to fashion.
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