Neutron Stars on the Brink of Collapse
Neutron stars are the densest objects in the Universe; however, their exact characteristics remain unknown. Using simulations based on recent observations, …
Noisy cell membranes
Rapid information transfer is vital for the inner workings of body tissues. With computer simulations, researchers from Colombia and Germany found …
The science of forecasting: Models and data instead of crystal balls
“Summer School” in Heidelberg in the framework of the “ScienceFore” Project, led by Tilmann Gneiting (HITS). The project is funded by …
Protected: Chaotically Magnetized Cloud Is No Place to Build a Star, or Is It?
U.S. astronomers and astrophysicists found that stars can emerge from a wider range of conditions as previously thought. For their …
“Auriga” project helps uncover the history of galaxies
A research team led by HITS scientist Robert Grand ran 36 simulations of Milky Ways on German supercomputers, for the first time …
Young Researcher´s award goes to HITS doctoral student
Mehmet Ali Öztürk, PhD student at HITS and at the Hartmut Hoffmann-Berling International Graduate School of Molecular and Cellular Biology (…
Nacre in the supercomputer
HITSter Frauke Gräter wins the 2nd PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC Serge Bogaerts, Managing Director of PRACE aisbl is …
The Forecaster’s Dilemma: Evaluating forecasts of extreme events
Accurate predictions of extreme events do not necessarily indicate the scientific superiority of the forecaster or the forecast method from which …
The Dark Side of Natural Language Processing
At the first “Ethics in Natural Language Processing” workshop in Valencia, scientists discussed the opportunities and dangers of automatic speech analysis. …
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