By Sarbani Basu, Department of Astronomy, Yale University, USA We normally rely on physics to interpret and understand astrophysical processes. However, with precise seismic data from the Sun and other stars, we can use astrophysics to inform us about the physical properties of stellar matter, and in some cases inform us even about fundamental physics. In […]
By Alina Schadwinkel, Spektrum der Wissenschaft Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Heidelberg What the heck is a coronavirus ? How do I protect myself? How safe and effective are the new vaccines – and when will the pandemic finally be over? For more than a year, Sars-CoV-2 has dominated the media. People are demanding information. As quickly as […]
The weighted ensemble (WE) path sampling strategy orchestrates multiple simulations in parallel with rigorous statistical resampling at fixed time intervals to maintain rigorous kinetics. WE simulations can be orders of magnitude more efficient than standard simulations in generating unbiased, atomically detailed pathways for rare events such as large conformational transitions in proteins and protein binding […]
Die kanadische Wissenschaftsjournalistin Siobhan Roberts hält zum Abschluss ihres Aufenthalts als “Journalist in Residence” am Heidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien (HITS) einen Vortrag über ihren Blick auf die Pandemie und die Bedeutung der Unsicherheit in der Wissenschaft. Der Online-Vortrag findet am 20. Januar um 16 Uhr statt. Siobhan Roberts kam Mitte September 2020 ans HITS. […]