SEEING MEMBERS OF MINORITY GROUPS EVERYWHERE? IT'S AN ILLUSION

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Hebrew U. Team Finds People Overestimate the Presence of Minorities Around Them, Impeding Efforts to Build a more Equitable and Inclusive Society (Jerusalem, May 10, 2022) –...

ON THE EDGE: Working with the Tiniest Magnets, Hebrew U. Discovers New Magnetic Phenomenon with Industrial Potential

Tuesday, Apr 12, 2022

(Jerusalem, April 12, 2022)—Probing the world of the very, very small is a wonderland for physicists. At this nano-scale, where materials as thin as 100 atoms are studied, totally new and...

COMING SOON TO CELLPHONES, DRONES AND EYEGLASSES: LENSES AS THIN AS 1/1000 OF A HAIR

Monday, Mar 28, 2022

Hebrew U. Develops Method to Evaluate Emerging Flat Lens Technologies (Jerusalem, March 28, 2022)—Perhaps you are wearing glasses while reading this or have a cell phone, binoculars, a...

EXTENDING WOMEN'S FERTILITY & REVERSING AGING IN HUMAN EGG CELLS

Wednesday, Mar 9, 2022

"Within a decade, we hope to increase fertility among older women using anti-viral drugs"—Hebrew University’s Dr. Michael Klutstein. (Jerusalem, March 8, 2022)—Throughout much of the...

Siblings of Children with Disabilities May Have Greater Cognitive Empathy

Sunday, Feb 27, 2022

Having a child with a disability or a developmental delay is often a stressful experience for a family. Siblings in such families may be exposed to greater stress and challenges. Until now,...

BIG-DATA TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES CAN UNCOVER WILDLIFE SECRETS AND REDUCE THEIR CONFLICTS WITH HUMANS, INTERNATIONAL TEAM LED BY HEBREW UNIVERSITY SHOWS

Monday, Feb 21, 2022

Movement is ubiquitous across the natural world. All organisms move, actively or passively, regularly or during specific life stages, to meet energy, survival, reproductive and social demands. ...

ELUCIDATING THE BRAIN’S WHITE MATTER

Monday, Oct 11, 2021

Results from running Nissel ST technique on a single slice from a human hemisphere. We can see the nerve fiber orientation map (the orientation is color-coded according to the half-circle on the...

Israeli-German Team Taps Mortality Data to Uncover which Countries have Underreported their COVID-19 Deaths and the Extent of their Deception

Tuesday, Aug 3, 2021

(Jerusalem, August 3, 2021)—For the past year and a half, many of our decisions regarding whether it is safe to fly to country X or to vacation in country Y have been based a given country’s...

FACING CLIMATE CHANGE TOGETHER: UAE MINISTER OF FOOD AND WATER SECURITY MEETS AGTECH AND FOODTECH EXPERTS AT HEBREW UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE

Wednesday, Jul 14, 2021

Benny Chefetz, Dean of HU’s Agriculture School, Mariam Al-Muhairi, UAE Minister for Food and Water Security, Mona Khoury-Kassabri, HU’s VP of Strategy and Diversity. (Jerusalem, July 14,...

Research finds broccoli has a directly positive effect on the microbiome: “This research has considerable importance for public healthcare and individual health.”

Sunday, Jun 6, 2021

Researchers at Hebrew University have discovered new-found dietary benefits to broccoli connected to the exchange of glucose and lipids and bacteria located in the intestines. Prof. Madar,...

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