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Information about whether industrial chemicals impede brain development is only available for a very small number of chemicals. A new procedure aims to fix this problem without using animal testing. At a conference organized by CAAT-Europe at the University of Konstanz, researchers as well as representatives from industry and regulatory authorities met with a delegation of the OECD to initiate new legislation.

In public statements by researchers, it is sometimes difficult to separate private persons from their official roles. Political scientist Gabriele Spilker shares how this can work.

What exactly is swarm intelligence? How do politicians make decisions, and how do animal swarms? Can the use of AI in the workplace succeed? On July 18, 2024, scientists from the two Konstanz Clusters of Excellence will answer your questions.

How different species interact with each other, for example as predator and prey, is by no means fixed and can depend on the prevailing environmental conditions. Which factors play a role in this process is the focus topic of the new DFG research unit "DynaSym", with the participation of the University of Konstanz. The unit's spokesperson is Lutz Becks.

Is it possible to create a new class of materials from very different substances using the "one-pot synthesis" approach? Chemists at the University of Konstanz explain how they enable the synthesis of such novel materials.

Locusts adapt their sense of smell to better detect sparse food sources in crowded swarms of up to billion animals, as researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour at the University of Konstanz discovered. They published their results in the journal Nature Communication.

Nantes Université invites leading representatives from the European University for Well-Being to join EUniWell Rectors’ Assembly and Mayors' Meeting. The University of Konstanz Rectorate is represented by Katharina Holzinger and Rüdiger Wilhelmi, and the city of Konstanz by David Tchakoura, director of Konstanz International.

How do plants break down damaged cell components for recycling? Konstanz researchers unlock an important molecular mechanism in cellular recycling.