Terrier Puppy Undergoes Cardiac Catheterization in HU's Veterinary Hospital

Thursday, Oct 29, 2015

An adorable terrier pup called Henry is enjoying a blissful "dog's life" after undergoing innovative life-saving surgery at HU's Veterinary Hospital. Henry was rescued at five weeks old by a...

Confirming Einstein

Monday, Mar 16, 2015

Confirming Einstein, Scientists Find 'Spacetime Foam' Not Slowing Down Photons from Far-Away Gamma Ray Burst One hundred years after Albert Einstein formulated the Theory of Relativity, an...

Infect Drug-Resistant Bacteria with Bacterial Viruses Found in Jerusalem Sewage

Tuesday, Feb 17, 2015

Hebrew U Scientists Infect Drug-Resistant Bacteria with Bacterial Viruses Found in Jerusalem Sewage Every year, drug-resistant infections kill more than 50,000 people across Europe and the United...

Ancient skull from Galilee cave offers clues to the first modern Europeans

Wednesday, Jan 28, 2015

The discovery of a 55,000-year-old partial skull in Northern Israel provides new insights into the migration of modern humans out of Africa. The rare find was reported in the journal Nature last...

Centipede Genes Offer Evolutionary Clues

Monday, Dec 8, 2014

Centipedes, those many-legged creatures that startle us in our homes and gardens, have been genetically sequenced for the first time. In a new study in the journal PLoS Biology, an international...

CollPlant Pioneered Method Used in Ebola Vaccine Research

Thursday, Dec 4, 2014

As Ebola continues to be in the headlines, scientists urgently look for treatments. One treatment option may stem from the tobacco plant, which is used to synthesize antibodies for a...

“Immense Heaven”

Friday, Sep 19, 2014

“Immense Heaven”: Astronomers use new techniques to define galactic supercluster, map our neighborhood in space A Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher is part of an international team of...

HU Researchers Map Israel’s Deepest Cave

Wednesday, Sep 3, 2014

Researchers from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered the deepest cave in Israel. Located near Israel’s border with Lebanon, the cave was recently mapped by researchers from the...

Was da Vinci Wrong?

Tuesday, Jul 8, 2014

New paradigm shows that friction and fracture are interrelated, say Hebrew University physics researchers Overturning conventional wisdom stretching all the way to Leonardo da Vinci, new Hebrew...

How Octopuses Don’t Tie Themselves in Knots

Tuesday, Jun 24, 2014

An octopus’s arms are covered in hundreds of suckers that will stick to just about anything, with one important exception: those suckers generally won’t grab onto the octopus itself, otherwise...

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