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International research teams from Konstanz and Paris decipher molecular mechanism controlling a critical step in the meiotic division of egg cells.

Evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer's team discovered a new type of speciation in cichlid fishes in a crater lake in Nicaragua

Architects from "CODE UNIQUE Architekten GmbH" submitted the winning entry in the competition to design the Forum Konstanz

University of Konstanz Professor Thomas Brunner (biochemical pharmacology) was selected by the board of the Thurgau foundation for science and research to become the new chair of the BITg managing board. Thomas Brunner fills the position that has been vacant since his predecessor, Professor Marcus Groettrup, passed away in June.

Chemist from the University of Konstanz succeeds in taking a key step towards the production of sustainable chemicals in living microfactories

Dr Philipp Lammers from the University of Konstanz received the renowned French-German prize from the Frankoromanistenverband (FRV) and the French Embassy for his dissertation on the French author Stendhal.

The world-renowned chemist was honoured for his outstanding achievements in colloid science

To sting or not to sting? An alarm pheromone plays a decisive role in bees' willingness to sting - and their group size, as scientists from Constance have now shown

Rhythmic accuracy pays off, as researchers from Konstanz (Germany) and Israel show in their behavioural study on the courtship song of the rock hyrax. Males that sang more often and kept the beat with greater precision had higher reproductive success than their less rhythmically accurate peers.