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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 are doing something rarely done with natural plagues: basic scientific research. She describes what her team saw, what they are doing, and her hopes for how science can contribute to controlling outbreaks. Read the interview with her in our online magazine "campus.kn".

While decades of research have finally confirmed that stress is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, understanding the physiological mechanisms of how this occurs is far from being a closed case: Now, Konstanz scientists from the Department of Psychology and the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour" have uncovered a potential new pathway linking stress to cardiovascular disease on the basis of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone-System (RAAS).

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. This means that a given ‘average woman’ would work for free up until this date if she received a man’s average salary for the rest of the year. On this occasion, we talk to Susanne Strauß, professor of sociology and a specialist in gender studies.

SERVICE FOR EDITORIAL OFFICES: Konstanz research expedition investigates causes for the current locust swarms in Africa and the collective decision-making processes of the animals – information service for editorial offices and possibility of journalistic onsite visits.

Keen to know what young scientists at the University of Konstanz's Zukunftskolleg are working on? Then have a look at the research videos some of them produced as part of a video competition, presenting the fellow´s individual research or a joint research project.

A University of Konstanz study examining vaccine-related attitudes reveals that our beliefs are so resilient that we effectively immunize ourselves to the opinions of others.

Der neue On-Board-Computer (OBC-I) für ICARUS hat die Internationale Raumstation (ISS) erreicht und wird am Mittwoch, 18. Dezember 2019, installiert werden.

In the last decade, papers by both Iain Couzin and Damien Farine have ranked among the most highly cited by scientists across multiple fields

The first existence of a multilevel society in a non-mammalian animal shows that large brains are not a requirement for complex societies