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The LOFAR radio telescope has delivered the most detailed radio map of the northern sky to date. It provides new insights into active galaxies, star formation and rare cosmic objects. For more than ten years, an international research team observed the northern sky with the LOFAR radio telescope. The results of this sky survey have now been published in the scientific journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics".

The University of Bonn has been hosting the digital consumer protection service Leak Checker for five years now.

Research from Bonn combines modeling and Machine Learning - NeurIPS paper shows potential for climate adaptation and disaster control Extreme weather events such as heavy rain and flooding pose growing challenges for early warning systems worldwide.

IBM and the Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics at the University of Bonn have maintained a close and productive collaboration since 1987.

Researchers at the University of Bonn, TH Köln, and MindPort GmbH breathe life into virtual avatars The research project "Gen-AIvatar - Universal creation of emotional and diverse avatars through generative AI" is receiving NEXT.IN.NRW funding of around 2 million euros.

Guest professor at the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab, Freie Universität Berlin, uses language models similar to those behind ChatGPT Large language models (LLMs) from the field of artificial intelligence can predict how the human brain responds to visual stimuli.

The BMFTR is providing nearly €2.5 million to fund the "SecureNeuroAI" project, which involves researchers from Bonn and FIZ Karlsruhe Artificial intelligence (AI) is designed to make our health system even more efficient.

Study: Automatic evaluation of cataract surgery videos for optimized training & competition Although manual small incision cataract surgery (SICS) is widely practiced in countries of the global South, there is no publicly available surgical video dataset for this operation, leaving a critical gap in cataract surgery research.

Life Published: 15 May 2025, 13:50 Researchers from Cluster of Excellence "Balance of Microverse" at the University of Jena, in collaboration with international partners, have developed a new tool that significantly simplifies and accelerates the genetic analysis of viruses.

Companies are faced with the challenge of processing ever-increasing amounts of data efficiently.