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The University of Konstanz holds top position nationwide in the 2023 CWTS Leiden Ranking for the categories "open access" and "international collaboration", and ranks among the global top 150.

Researchers from Konstanz and Zurich have deciphered a biochemical mechanism that ensures that newly formed proteins are processed correctly when they leave the cell's own protein factories. This solves a decade-old puzzle in protein sorting.

Researchers from the University of Konstanz and Karlsruhe involved in the second phase of the campaign on increasing the attractiveness of rail travel #besserBahnfahren of the German channel network ARD.

Physicists at the University of Konstanz generate one of the shortest signals ever produced by humans: Using paired laser pulses, they succeeded in compressing a series of electron pulses to a numerically analyzed duration of only 0.000000000000000005 seconds.

Biologists at the University of Konstanz provide evidence for an alternative genetic mechanism that can lead to plants becoming self-pollinators.

Once more, the University of Konstanz is highly successful in the THE Impact Ranking that assesses the social influence of universities in the area of sustainable development. Compared to the previous year, Konstanz is now among the world’s top 100 in three categories.

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have succeeded for the first time in filming the interactions of light and matter in an electron microscope with attosecond time resolution.

The majority of the population in Germany supports the introduction of an unconditional basic income. The analysis of two representative studies shows that the higher the basic income, the greater the approval. As a means of financing, most respondents support an increase in income and wealth taxes.

On 19 May 2023, the German Research Foundation (DFG) approved two new Collaborative Research Centres/Transregio (SFB-TRR) with substantial participation of Konstanz researchers: SFB-TRR 353 "Regulation of cell death decisions" and SFB-TRR 161 "Quantitative Methods for Visual Computing", which has now received its second extension.