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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, …
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Noisy cell membranes
Rapid information transfer is vital for the inner workings of body tissues. With computer simulations, researchers from Colombia and Germany found …
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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 …
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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 …
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“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 …
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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 (…
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Nacre in the supercomputer
HITSter Frauke Gräter wins the 2nd PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC Serge Bogaerts, Managing Director of PRACE aisbl is …
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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 …
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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. …