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Season’s Greetings!
We had looked forward to this year with great anticipation because on 1 January 2020 HITS celebrated its 10th birthday. Therefore we invited …
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DFG funds HITS research on SARS CoV-2 spike glycoprotein
The SARS-CoV2 virus is notorious for its characteristic spike protein that helps the virus to invade cells. Rebecca Wade and the …
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Radicals in collagen and the sound of the stars: ERC Consolidator Grants for two HITS researchers
The biophysicist Frauke Gräter and the astrophysicist Saskia Hekker have won ERC Consolidator Grants awarded by the European Research Council (…
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Measuring the true scale of the Universe
The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) is a beneficiary of the ERC Synergy Grant “UniverScale”. An international research team from …
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Issue 4 | 2020
Canadian science journalist and author Siobhan Roberts is the current “Journalist in Residence” at HITS. In spite of the Corona crisis, …
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Mapping the uncertainty: COVID-19 forecasts
Researchers from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a web platform …
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Again: “Highly Cited Researcher“ at HITS
For five years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) has been named one of …
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Making sense of what you see in biomedical images
Sometimes an image is just an image. Sometimes it gives those who can read it correctly a deeper insight into what …
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New tools for computing protein-ligand dissociation rates and exploring dissociation mechanisms
The length of time that a drug molecule spends bound to its protein target – its residence time – is an important determinant …
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Why scientists should be on twitter
Twitter has been around since 2006 and currently has around 330 million active users (as of October 2020) making it one of the most …