Understanding the Evolution in Color Naming

Wednesday, Dec 19, 2018

Efficient Compression in Color Naming and its Evolution The world’s languages vary widely in the way they encode colors into words. For example, English has separate terms for...

Your memories could be read and replayed after you die

Friday, May 11, 2018

Our memories leave a clear and unique genetic mark on our brains, according to researchers from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. These can be decoded after we die. That’s the remarkable...

A Tiger May Not Change its Spots but Venomous Creatures Tweak Their Venom Recipe Many Times in a Lifetime

Monday, Mar 5, 2018

Hebrew University researcher discovers Darwinism at work, as sea anemones adapt their venom to accommodate changing prey and sea conditions Many animals use venom to protect themselves from...

Novel technique reveals the intricate beauty of a cracked glass

Wednesday, Nov 1, 2017

Physics, math and special gels explain the formation of fracture patterns in brittle materials This photograph shows a typical facetted fracture surface formed by the fracture of a brittle gel....

28 Years Later: LIGO Detector Confirms 1989 Hebrew University Prediction That Neutron Star Mergers Produce Gamma Ray Bursts

Tuesday, Oct 24, 2017

Prof. Tsvi Piran at Hebrew University's Racah Institute of Physics led a team that published an accurate prediction in 'Nature' that was initially disputed or ignored Two years ago, the LIGO...

Nanoscale chip system measures light from a single bacterial cell to enable portable chemical detection

Wednesday, Aug 30, 2017

Further development could open door to on-chip biological and chemical sensing applications, e.g. detecting chemicals in real-time continuous flow systems and even in an open-air...

Mysterious Children’s Neurological Disease is Traced to a Single Error in One Gene

Friday, Aug 4, 2017

Scientists find that affected children’s cells are flooded with ribosomal RNA and are poisoned by it; the first time that an excess of ribosomal RNA has been linked to a disease in humans In...

Glowing bacteria detect buried landmines

Thursday, Mar 23, 2017

Researchers remotely detect buried landmines using fluorescent bacteria encased in polymeric beads illuminated by a laser-based scanning system The potential application of a system...

Rare Einstein Documents Related To Historic Gravity Announcement

Thursday, Feb 11, 2016

Rare Einstein Documents Related To Historic Gravity Announcement Displayed at Hebrew University's Albert Einstein Archives Prof. Barak Kol, Head of Physics Studies at The Hebrew University, holds...

Scientists Discover Genetic Mechanism Essential To Female Development

Friday, Nov 6, 2015

Scientists at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Faculty of Medicine have announced a discovery that is expected to allow doctors to diagnose a disease causing infertility and lack of puberty...

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