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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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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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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Protein Dyamics & Machine Learning: Cecilia Clementi at the HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium

2. April 2025

On 10 February 2025, Cecilia Clementi, Einstein Professor , Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) gave a joint HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium on “Modeling …

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Generative AI and the Physics of Molecules : Simon Olsson at the HITS-SIMPLAIX Colloquium

1. March 2025

On 27 January 2025, Simon Olsson from the Chalmers University of Technology, Department for Computer Science and Engineering, Gothenburg (Sweden), gave a joint …

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Guillermo Carbrera-Vives. Klaus Tschira Guest Professor 2024/25

Guillermo Cabrera-Vives

26. February 2025

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

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A synthetic peptide based on the natural protein S100A1,

Therapeutic Designer Peptide to Combat Acute Heart Muscle Weakness

12. February 2025

Researchers of the Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) have developed a synthetic peptide …

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