Intensive Religious Fasting Linked To Better School Performance
A recent study, which involved Konstanz economist Guido Schwerdt, has found that longer daily fasting periods during Ramadan have a beneficial impact on the academic…
University of Konstanz News
Physicists Confirm 50-Year-Old Hypothesis About Selfish Behavior
A new study describes how selfishness can lead to fairness. Physicists have verified a fifty-year-old hypothesis that explains the formation of herds as a result of…
A New, Stronger and Recyclable Plastic
A biodegradable polyester has been developed with properties comparable to those of high-density polyethylene. Polyethylene is known for its many advantageous properties, but its lack…
Easily Recyclable and Compostable – A New Plastic With Excellent Mechanical Stability
How can plastics be designed so that they maintain their useful properties while also being more easily recyclable? Chemist Stefan Mecking and his research group…
What Would Darwin Discover Today?
Eduardo Sampaio is certain that Charles Darwin would have been ecstatic if he had the opportunity to explore the underwater world of the Cape Verde…
Scientists Discover a New Way To Make Species
An evolutionary biologist’s team has found a new type of speciation. The evolution of a new species by hybridization of two previously described species with…
Magnetic Phenomena Discovery Paves Way to Faster and More Efficient Data Storage
How do magnetic waves behave in antiferromagnets and how do they spread? What role do “domain walls” play in the process? And what could this…
Genetic Mystery of the Seadragon Solved
Seadragons (Phyllopetryx taeniolatus) live off the coast in western and southern Australia. An international team involving evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer from the University of Konstanz…
Surprising Discovery of Light-Induced Shape Shifting of MXenes
Ultrafast laser spectroscopy allows observing the motion of atoms at their natural time scales in the range of femtoseconds, the millionth of a billionth of…
Deception and Lies: Wild Siberian Jays Use Social Knowledge to Avoid Being Tricked
Siberian jays are group-living birds within the corvid family that employ a wide repertoire of calls to warn each other of predators. Sporadically, however, birds…
Popeye With a Whiff of Rotten Eggs: New Metabolic Capabilities of Gut Bacteria Discovered
An international team of scientists led by microbiologists Professor Alexander Loy from the University of Vienna and Professor David Schleheck from the University of Konstanz…
One Shot, Protected Forever: A General Flu Vaccine Using Microspheres (And It Could Be Adapted to Coronaviruses)
One shot, protected forever: This would be a dream come true regarding influenza vaccinations. So far, vaccination against influenza did not provide a lasting protection….
New State of Matter Discovered by Scientists: Liquid Glass
While glass is a truly ubiquitous material that we use on a daily basis, it also represents a major scientific conundrum. Contrary to what one…
Measure Squeezing With High-Precision Using Thermal Fluctuations of a Nanostring
Scientists at the Department of Physics at the University of Konstanz have developed a completely new method of measuring squeezing – a potential starting point…
Scientists “Escape the Confines of the Natural World” to Dissect the Complex Choices of Animals
What is important when you choose a home? Space, security, light — or a combination of these? Like humans, animals make choices about where to…
Electronics at the Speed of Light – Using Light Waves to Move Electrons at Sub-Femtosecond Speeds
A European team of researchers including physicists from the University of Konstanz has found a way of transporting electrons at times below the femtosecond range…
