Holding on to letting go – the Power of Bonds in Cell Stability
Two-component adhesives are a brilliant invention. Scientists at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) have found that the principle behind …
The Universal Sound of Black Holes
They are mysterious, exciting and inescapable – black holes are some of the most exotic objects in the Universe. With gravitational-wave detectors, …
New SIMPLAIX PI: Tristan Bereau
Computational physicist Tristan Bereau, professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, has been appointed new Principal Investigator in the …
Anya’s author profile in Helvetica Chimica Acta
Read Anya’s thoughts on the challenges and future of computational chemistry, find out why she became a computational chemist, and …
The sacrifice within – how collagen’s weak bonds help protect tissue
HITS researchers publish new findings on collagen, the most abundant protein in our body: So-called “sacrificial bonds” in collagen break faster …
Tools for molecular design
On 21-23 June 2023, two workshops on Brain research took place at the Mathematikon, Heidelberg University: The second HBPMolSIM training workshop on …
New representation for chemical machine learning
Stiv’s quantum-inspired representation for chemical machine learning entitled matrix of orthogonalised atomic orbital coefficients (MAOC) is published in the Special …
Richard Schwartz
Divide and Conquer: 5 Point Energy Minimization Thomson’s classic problem asks, for any N, which configurations of N points on …
Steve Trettel
Geometry from the Inside Geometry is one of the oldest ongoing projects of humanity, with an unbroken chain of deep thought …
Registration open: 2nd HBPMolSim Training Workshop on Tools for Molecular Simulation of Neuronal Signaling Cascades and HBP BRAVE partner project open meeting
The second HBPMolSIM training workshop on Tools for Molecular Simulation of Neuronal Signaling Cascades will take place in hybrid format on 21…