Massive stars also partner in metal-poor environments

10. September 2025

Massive stars in metal-rich galaxies, such as in our own Milky Way, often have close partners. That this is also true …

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Ke-Jung Chen (left) and Wun-Yi Chen

Supernovae and cosmological impact

29. July 2025

Humboldt Fellow from Taipei, Taiwan, at HITS – Invitation by the Physics of Stellar Objetcs group HITS has welcomed a new Alexander …

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Floppy and flexible: How Machine Learning helps to build new proteins

23. July 2025

A team of researchers from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP) …

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Schematic representation of the prediction of a protein 3D structure.

New Infrastructure for AI-based biomacromolecular structure prediction

18. July 2025

The newly established Bio-Structure Hub at the Heidelberg University Scientific Software Center (SSC) provides an accessible entry point into the world …

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15. July 2025

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Double detonation: new image shows remains of star destroyed by pair of explosions

2. July 2025

For the first time, an international team of astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating …

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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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3rd SIMPLAIX Workshop: Thanks to all participants!

29. May 2025

A big thank you to all the speakers and participants for making the 3rd SIMPLAIX Workshop on “Machine Learning for Multiscale …

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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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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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