
In “Nature”: Galaxies out of a Supercomputer
A new computer simulation shows the formation of galaxies with unprecedented precision, allowing astrophysicists from Heidelberg, the U.S. and England …

Mathematik hilft Umweltschutz
This content is only available in German. Wie mathematische Ansätze umweltrelevante Arbeitsprozesse, wie zum Beispiel Recycling optimieren können, diskutierten …

A Milky Way out of the Supercomputer
The formation of disk galaxies has long been a conundrum for cosmologists: computer simulations produced typically far too massive and too …

Michele Catanzaro to be new “Journalist in Residence” at HITS
The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies gives science journalists the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of computer-based, data-driven science with a …

Mathematics for safer medicine
The new HITS research group “Data Mining and Uncertainty Quantification” analyzes large amounts of data and calculates uncertainties in technical systems. …

The Science of Forecasting
Mathematician Tilmann Gneiting is leader of the new research group “Computational Statistics” at HITS and Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute for …

Bioinformatics: New type of bacteria found in the human gut
With software techniques, molecular biologists and computer scientists show that around half of the bacteria species in the human gut are …

Computer Science helps astronomers exploring the sky
The new HITS research group “Astroinformatics” will develop methods and software for astronomers and help facilitating the analysis and processing of …

The Human Brain Project has begun
The world’s most ambitious neuroscience project is underway. Scientists from the 135 partner institutions of the Human Brain Project, co-funded by …

Wissenschaft im TV – Boulevardisierung eines Bildungsmediums?
This content is only available in German. Die Fernsehjournalistin Pia Grzesiak erläutert in einem Youtube-Video, wie schmal der Grat zwischen …