A new Emmy Noether research group at the Centre for Astronomy of Heidelberg University (ZAH) has started working on the physics of star formation in galaxies across cosmic time spans.

Top again in Germany: The Shanghai Ranking for 2016, i.e. the Academic Ranking of World Universities, today revealed that Heidelberg University is again the best university in Germany, for the third successive time after 2014 and 2015.

For the first time, researchers from Heidelberg University have deciphered the function of the so-called decapping enzyme in bacteria.

A new Emmy Noether junior research group at Heidelberg University's Institute of Earth Sciences will delve into the central questions of climate history.

How did the concept of a "musical past" develop between the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Age? This question is the focus of a European research team that includes music scholars from Heidelberg University.

Geoscientists from Heidelberg University have discovered accumulations of magma in the Andes sufficient to have set off a super-eruption but which, in fact, did not.