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What´s new at HITS? On this page you can find the latest news from and about HITS, including the latest scientific discoveries, personal achievements by our researchers or general changes at HITS.

TOS and SET Group at the MESA Summer School 2025

30. September 2025

The TOS and SET groups were strongly represented at this year’s MESA Summer School, held at KU Leuven, Belgium, from 21…

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Fair and Faithful Language Processing

29. September 2025

Computer scientist Vagrant Gautam joined HITS as an Independent Postdoc in September 2025. The program offers young researchers the opportunity to shape …

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Deadline 5 October: Call for “HITS Journalist in Residence” in 2026

22. September 2025

Call for 2026: HITS Journalist in Residence program open for applications. Deadline: 5 October 2025

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Issue 3 | 2025

10. September 2025

Centered around the theme “Experiment, Tinker, Do-It-Yourself – Energy for You and Your Environment!”, HITS once again took part in this year’…

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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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HITS: Call for “Journalist in Residence” in 2026

21. July 2025

Call for 2026: HITS Journalist in Residence program open for applications. Deadline: 5 October 2025

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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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Datenschutzhinweise

15. July 2025

Wir freuen uns, dass Sie sich bei uns bewerben wollen. Im Folgenden möchten wir Ihnen erklären, wie wir Ihre …

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