If one would rewind the tape of life, would evolution result in the same outcome? The Harvard evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould came up with this famous thought experiment. He suggested that evolution would not repeat ...
Evolution
Oct 28, 2014
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People have long dreamed of developing materials to circumvent the challenges of daily life. Ideally, one could capitalize on a combination of the features of different materials, profiting from their advantages while avoiding ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 8, 2024
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Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behavior have developed a computer vision framework for posture estimation and identity tracking that they can use in indoor environments as well as in the wild. This ...
Plants & Animals
May 28, 2024
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Technological change is currently driving fundamental changes to the world of workâwith significant consequences for social inequality. Against this backdrop, the interdisciplinary research project "Digitalization, Automation ...
Economics & Business
Dec 18, 2023
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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. This has been the experience of honeybee researchers ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 11, 2023
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With a new markerless method it is now possible to track the gaze and fine-scaled behaviors of every individual bird and how that animal moves in the space with others. A research team from the Cluster of Excellence Center ...
Ecology
Jul 24, 2023
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Sixteen years ago, the REACH chemical regulation came into force across Europe. REACH obliges the chemical industry to identify the health risks of all chemicals used in their products. The downside of REACH is that this ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 21, 2023
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A drone is flying over a herd of plains zebras in central Kenya. It is flying quite high so that the animals are not bothered by it. These zebras are really interesting for collective and spatial behavior studies, according ...
Ecology
Mar 22, 2023
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More than one billion Muslims are fasting every year in the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, Ramadan. In addition to abstaining from food and drink every day between sunrise and sunset, many believers participate more ...
Social Sciences
Mar 13, 2023
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What promoted citizens to favor a fair distribution of vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic? This is the focus topic in the current study of Konstanz researchers, political scientists Dirk Leuffen, Pascal Mounchid and Max ...
Social Sciences
Feb 28, 2023
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