
The faster they rotate, the more magnetic they become
Rotation rate and magnetic fields: Binary stars behave significantly different from single ones. A new study in “Nature Astronomy” investigates their …

Excellence Strategy: HITS researchers successful with two clusters on astrophysics and life sciences
How do stellar explosions or the evolution of galaxies influence our universe today? How can synthetic biology and specially designed …

PAL: Parallel Active Learning – automated, modular, and parallel active learning workflow
See more here: https://github.com/aimat-lab/PAL

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

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

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

Protein Dyamics & Machine Learning: Cecilia Clementi at the HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium
On 10 February 2025, Cecilia Clementi, Einstein Professor , Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) gave a joint HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium on “Modeling …

Generative AI and the Physics of Molecules : Simon Olsson at the HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium
On 27 January 2025, Simon Olsson from the Chalmers University of Technology, Department for Computer Science and Engineering, Gothenburg (Sweden), gave a joint …

Guillermo Cabrera-Vives
Klaus Tschira Guest Professor, September 2024 – March 2025 “I admire the way how research is done here,” Guillermo Cabrera-Vives wraps up his first …

Therapeutic Designer Peptide to Combat Acute Heart Muscle Weakness
Researchers of the Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) have developed a synthetic peptide …