News Year: 2025

Issue 2 | 2025

18. June 2025

In April, HITS welcomed its current Journalist in Residence: Australian science journalist Jackson Ryan. He kicked off his six-month stay with …

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LAMOST, National Astronomical Observatories, China (image created with ChatGPT-4o)

The faster they rotate, the more magnetic they become

11. June 2025

Rotation rate and magnetic fields: Binary stars behave significantly different from single ones. A new study in “Nature Astronomy” investigates their …

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Kai Polsterer and Rebecca Wade

Excellence Strategy: HITS researchers successful with two clusters on astrophysics and life sciences

27. May 2025

How do stellar explosions or the evolution of galaxies influence our universe today? How can synthetic biology and specially designed …

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Jackson Ryan, HITS Journalist in Residence 2025

Jackson Ryan named “Journalist in Residence” at HITS

13. May 2025

The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies gives science journalists the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of computer-based, data-driven science with a …

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PAL: Parallel Active Learning – automated, modular, and parallel active learning workflow

29. April 2025

See more here: https://github.com/aimat-lab/PAL

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Picture of the evolution of oxygen adaptation in bacteria.

Exploring the history of bacteria evolution

16. April 2025

In a new study published in “Science”, an international team of scientists presents a reconstruction of the evolution of Earth’s …

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Raphael Hirschi, Klaus Tschira Guest Professor 2025

New Klaus Tschira Guest Professor at HITS

15. April 2025

HITS welcomes Swiss-British astrophysicist Raphael Hirschi as the 6th Klaus Tschira Guest Professor at the Institute. He has been Professor of …

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Generating Highly Designable Proteins with Geometric Algebra Flow Matching

14. April 2025

Generating structurally diverse and physically realizable protein backbones remains one of the grand challenges in protein design. We propose a generative …

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Manfred Fuchs Prize for SIMPLAIX researcher

14. April 2025

Congratulations to our SIMPLAIX Principal Investigator Pascal Friederich (KIT) on the award of the Manfred Fuchs Prize 2025 for his outstanding research …

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Save the date: Max Bonomi at the HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium

10. April 2025

On 21 July 2025, Max Bonomi, Institut Pasteur, Paris (France) will give a joint HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium (hybrid) talk at the Studio Villa Bosch, …

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