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The ICARUS antenna system on the International Space Station (ISS) will allow researchers from around the world to investigate the movement of animals anywhere around the world. The movement data received by ICARUS are made available to the public via the “Animal Tracker” app, pictured here. | Copyright: University of Konstanz

ICARUS has been switched on: Testing has started

The animal observation system ICARUS on the International Space Station (ISS) with participation of the University of Konstanz entered its test phase today, 10 July 2019 – Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts (MWK) of Baden-Württemberg supports the further development of the Movebank database for the tracking of animal movement

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Measuring light, time and vacuum

Physicists from the University of Konstanz analyze the quantum states of both light and vacuum fluctuations and demonstrate their interplay with time

Coming to affect change

During a festive awards ceremony in Berlin on 9 May 2019, both Professor Margaret Crofoot and Professor Anke Hoeffler were officially presented with an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship by Federal Minister of Education and Research, Anja Karliczek, and the President of the Humboldt Foundation, Professor Hans-Christian Pape. With up to five million euros, the Humboldt Professorship is the most highly endowed research award in Germany.

Graphic: Age. Copyright: Reinwald/Kunze

Workplace Discrimination

Prof. Florian Kunze (University of Konstanz, Cluster of Excellence „The Politics of Inequality“) and Max Reinwald (University of Konstanz, Graduate School for Decision Sciences) investigate workplace behavior of employees who are in the minority in their teams.

The new protectors of the earth

Winners of the nationwide school competition “Beschützer der Erde 2.0” (protectors of the earth 2.0) to be honoured on Mainau Island – Ideas competition of the German Aerospace Centre in cooperation with the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

Schematic of the experimental setup: Depending on whether the coated glass beads have many or few neighbours within their field of vision (red), they are either illuminated by a laser beam or not. Researchers can use such an experiment to investigate the effects of visual information on the collective behaviour and swarming of swimming microparticles. Copyright: Noemi Furlani

See and be seen

Microscopic swimmers with visual perception of group members form stable swarms