1. All Articles

    1-24 of 264 1 2 3 4 ... 9 10 11 »

    1. Ancient foodies: Study reveals dietary preferences of Jordan Valley early humans

      Explore The Times of Israel News
      Ancient foodies: Study reveals dietary preferences of Jordan Valley early humans

      It’s not quite gefilte fish or foie gras — but it’s close.

      According to new research in Israel and the United States, ancient humans around the Sea of Galilee could have opted for a varied diet of fish and birds, but mostly went for carp and geese.

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Agriculture archaeology Humanities

    2. Charity, not crime, rises when natural disaster strikes - ISRAEL21c

      Explore ISRAEL21c News
      Charity, not crime, rises when natural disaster strikes - ISRAEL21c

      Widespread looting and chaos are the sort of scenes we’d expect to see in the wake of major disasters, but recent Israeli research has determined that communities impacted by natural disasters actually experience a decrease in crime.

      The study, conducted by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, examined data from 10,000 natural disasters of differing scopes that struck the United States from 2004 to 2015 and resulted in the deaths of 8,300 people and damage worth more than $100 billion.

      They compared the data between communities that were directly affected with that of communities that had ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Humanities

    3. Prof. Eli Keshet to be awarded Israel Prize in life sciences

      Explore Haaretz News
      Prof. Eli Keshet to be awarded Israel Prize in life sciences

      Prof. Eli Keshet is to be awarded the Israel Prize in life sciences this year for his contributions to the development of treatments for a wide range of diseases, Education Minister Yoav Gallant announced on Thursday.

      Keshet, a professor of molecular biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's medical school, was awarded the prestigious prize for his “pioneering contribution” to understanding the mechanism in which conditions of an oxygen shortage prompt the growth of new blood vessels. This process has “far-reaching effects on the development of many diseases such retinal diseases and cancer,” said the prize committee.

       The prize ...
      Read Full Article
      Mentions: cancer Medicine/Health

    4. Biopsies can be replaced with simple blood tests, Hebrew U. research find

      Explore Jpost News
      Biopsies can be replaced with simple blood tests, Hebrew U. research find

      A new blood testing method is being developed that could pinpoint cancer presence, especially at early stages, autoimmune diseases, infections, and lung and heart problems. The beauty of it is that it doesn't require a biopsy, which can often be invasive and painful.

      The new method was presented and published in a study in the Nature Biotechnology journal, and was developed in the lab of Hebrew University Prof. Nir Friedman, from the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, and the Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering, and Dr. Ronen Sadeh, at the university's Grass ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Medicine/Health

    5. Prof. Yair Zakovitch to receive Israel Prize in Bible Studies

      Explore Jpost News
      Prof. Yair Zakovitch to receive Israel Prize in Bible Studies

      Prof. Yair Zakovitch of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was announced as the recipient of the Israel Prize in Bible Studies on Tuesday, by Education Minister Yoav Gallant.

      “Yair Zakovitch is one of the most original biblical scholars in Israel and around the world. In his works he explored the literary aspects of the Bible, and the intra-biblical interpretation and the evolution after the Bible,” said the Israel Prize Committee in its decision.

      “In his essays he developed a special method for identifying interrelationships between the books of the Bible, through word games and weaving motifs,” added the committee. “He ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Bible Humanities

    6. One of the oldest mosques in the world uncovered in Tiberias

      Explore The Times of Israel News
      One of the oldest mosques in the world uncovered in Tiberias

      Archaeologists have determined that foundations found beneath an ancient mosque in Tiberias are from an even older mosque, making it one of the oldest such buildings available for excavation in the world, the Hebrew University said.

      The unusual manner in which the earlier structure was built enabled archaeologist Katia Cytryn-Silverman to determine that it was likely constructed during the seventh century CE.

      Cytryn-Silverman, of the Hebrew University, said it is the oldest mosque in the world that can be excavated. Other ancient mosques are either still being used or have had other mosques built on top of them, hindering research ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: archaeology Humanities

    7. 2020 started with murder hornets, ends with new species of wild bee

      Explore Jpost News
      2020 started with murder hornets, ends with new species of wild bee

      A year that featured murder hornets is ending off with more positive insect news, as a new species of wild bee was discovered right as its natural habitat was being rehabilitated north of Netanya.

       Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced on Tuesday that they had discovered a new species of wild bee while researching the effects of restoration efforts of a rare habitat in the Sharon region on bee populations. The findings were published in November in the scientific journal Belgian Journal of Entomology.

      The researchers say they believe that the species is likely unique to the sands ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Agriculture Faculty of Agriculture

    8. Stormy weather ahead: pollution found to cause fierce gales in coastal cities

      Explore Haaretz News
      Stormy weather ahead: pollution found to cause fierce gales in coastal cities

      A combination of city-generated heat and pollution in tropical coastal cities has been found to significantly increase precipitation in those cities. These results were reported last week by American scientists. Their study looked into factors causing the intensification of storms hitting Houston, Texas, which lies in the most tropical area in the U.S. According to Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld from the Hebrew University, who participated in the study, this combination apparently causes more fierce storms along the coastal plain in Israel as well, although to a lesser extent than in tropical regions.

       Climate scientists noticed a long time ago that ...
      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Science/Technology

    9. Ancient oil lamp workshop, now at Israel Museum, shows the way we once lit

      Explore The Times of Israel News
      Ancient oil lamp workshop, now at Israel Museum, shows the way we once lit

      A complete rare, early Islamic-era oil lamp workshop from ancient Tiberias on the shores of the Sea of Galilee has gone on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

      Ten complete lamp molds, a kiln, and several intact, unused oil lamps dating from circa the mid-7th century to the 11th century were found under debris from a series of earthquakes during excavations this summer, conducted by the Hebrew University Institute for Archaeology’s Israel Archaeological Services.

      The complete assemblage of the workshop offers “a rare glimpse into work processes in our area in ancient times,” said Liza Lurie, the Israel ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: archaeology Humanities

    10. Israeli researchers discover how to lengthen life of solar panels

      Explore Jpost News
      Israeli researchers discover how to lengthen life of solar panels
      In a move toward upgrading solar power technologies, a team of Israeli researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed an eco-friendly way to lengthen the lifespan of perovskite-based solar cells.
      The researchers designed a new structure to hold the cells, which allows for the easy removal and replacement of perovskite, a light-sensitive material that degrades over time. The process allows for the full restoration of a panel’s photovoltaic capacities and essentially enables it to be recycled.
      Perovskite is a mineral structure that has the capacity to absorb light and is used as a semiconductor. The growing field ...
      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Science/Technology

    11. One llama’s antibodies, analyzed in Jerusalem, may help ‘millions’ through COVID

      Explore The Times of Israel News
      One llama’s antibodies, analyzed in Jerusalem, may help ‘millions’ through COVID

      Antibodies from a single llama that were analyzed in a Jerusalem lab could be replicated and help “millions” of coronavirus patients, scientists say.

      Dina Schneidman-Duhovny of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has examined the qualities of dozens of antibodies from a llama called Wally, and identified which would best fight the coronavirus in humans.

      The best candidates have been tested in vitro by her US-based colleagues with live coronavirus and human cells, and appear to significantly reduce the virus’s ability to infect cells.

      As the llama antibodies are much smaller than human antibodies — they are often dubbed “nanobodies” — they ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Medicine/Health

    12. Glowing engineered bacteria point out explosive landmines

      Explore ISRAEL21c News
      Glowing engineered bacteria point out explosive landmines

      Researchers who discovered how to utilize fluorescent E. coli bacteria to locate landmines have recently further mutated them so that they are now both more sensitive and emit a glow visible to the naked eye, eliminating the need to scan the ground using laser light beams.

      In 2017, researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem molecularly engineered E. coli to emit a fluorescent light upon coming in contact with explosive vapors accumulated in the soil above landmines. This light was recorded using a laser-based scanning system so the mines could be located safely from afar.

      Now, in a study published ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Science/Technology

    13. Climate research multidisciplinary center opens at Hebrew U.

      Explore Jpost News
      Climate research multidisciplinary center opens at Hebrew U.
      The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which considers climate issues as some of the most significant scientific problems the world currently faces, established a climate research center, the Hebrew University Center for Climate Science (HUCS).
       
      The new center, headed by the two researchers Prof. Hezi Gildor and Dr. Uri Adam, will make it possible to deal with the challenges of the climate crisis in the Middle East region. The center's members will focus on building an up-to-date and accurate regional climate model.
       
      The center will allow ideas, research and interdisciplinary brainstorming around the climate issue to collaborate with the Meteorological ...
      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Agriculture Science/Technology artificial intelligence

    14. Could octopuses have more than one brain? - Hebrew U. study

      Explore Jpost News
      Could octopuses have more than one brain? - Hebrew U. study

      A new Hebrew University study recently examined the possibility that octopuses, known to be among the most intelligent of invertebrates, could have multiple brains.

      The full intelligence of an octopus is not fully understood, however it is known that they have the largest nervous system among invertebrates – even larger than some vertebrates – with more nerve cells not in the brain itself but rather in its body and the tentacles.
      The question of multiple brains is one that many researchers are still investigating. 
      The collection of sensory information and the ability to process it, learn from it and respond accordingly, is ...
      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Science/Technology

    16. Studies show pomegranate supplement slows neurodegenerative diseases

      Explore ISRAEL21c News
      Studies show pomegranate supplement slows neurodegenerative diseases

      Everybody knows that the pomegranate is a superfood. One of the seven native fruits of Israel, pomegranates are packed with health-promoting and healing antioxidants and vitamins.

      Now, an Israeli supplement derived from pomegranate seed oil has proven helpful in improving cognitive function in multiple sclerosis patients experiencing cognitive difficulties associated with the disease.

      Prof. Dimitrios Karussis, the internationally renowned director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem, found significant improvement in learning ability and text comprehension, word recall and categorization in 30 patients involved in a groundbreaking study of the patented GranaGard supplement.

      This is ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: STEM nanotechnology Medicine/Health

    17. Yissum Spinouts Raise $79 million in H1 2020 Despite Coronavirus Uncertainty - PRNewswire

      Explore PR Newswire News
      Yissum Spinouts Raise $79 million in H1 2020 Despite Coronavirus Uncertainty - PRNewswire

      Startups from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem raised $79 million in the first half of 2020, Yissum, the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University announced today.  Despite the continuing global uncertainty caused by the coronavirus and ongoing lockdowns around the world, 14 Yissum spinouts raised tens of millions of dollars in early-stage funding rounds.  

       Investments were made in companies in the cleantech, agriculture, and foodtech sectors as well as in life science, AI, and education.  Despite the fact that VC investments in the US  and Europe were down, the number of VC deals in Israel reached an all-time record ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Agriculture cancer Yissum

    18. Nano-engineered pomegranate oil holds hope for brain disease, study shows

      Explore The Times of Israel News
      Nano-engineered pomegranate oil holds hope for brain disease, study shows

      A Israeli study has found that multiple sclerosis patients taking a nano-engineered nutritional supplement made out of pomegranate oil showed “significant cognitive improvement” after just three months.

      The small-scale study of 30 patients was conducted at the Multiple Sclerosis Center at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem by Prof. Dimitrios Karussis, director of the center and a senior neurologist. Results showed that patients taking the supplement witnessed an average 12 percent improvement in learning ability and text comprehension, word recall and categorization, in the three months of treatment.

      The researchers are now writing up the findings to submit them to ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: stem cells STEM nanotechnology

    19. Ancient scepter found in south may have been part of life-sized 'divine statue' - The Times of Israel

      Explore The Times of Israel News
      Ancient scepter found in south may have been part of life-sized 'divine statue' - The Times of Israel

      An approximately 3,200-year-old scepter found at a biblical site in southern Israel may be the first physical evidence of life-sized “divine statues” used in Canaanite rituals, according to a new report.

      Yosef Garfinkel, an archaeology professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, wrote in the academic journal Antiquity that the scepter, which was made from bronze and coated in silver, was discovered inside the cellar of a Canaanite temple at Lachish.

      He linked the scepter, which looks like a spatula, to a scepter found at Hatzor in the north, as well as to a small figurine found at the site ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: archaeology Humanities

    20. Special vessels show Jewish continuity in Israel after Roman destruction

      Explore Jpost News
      Special vessels show Jewish continuity in Israel after Roman destruction

      New research offers insights on how Jewish life continued in the Land of Israel after the destruction of the Temple and of Jerusalem at the hands of the Romans.

       

      The use of chalkstones vessels, very common among the Jewish population during the Second Temple Period, did not stop with the destruction of city in the second century CE as previously thought, but continued in the Galilee, the new center of Jewish life, for at least another two centuries, a paper published in the May issue of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) documented.

      Several types and ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Humanities

    21. Why dance? From prehistory to the Bible, scholar offers answers

      Explore Jpost News
      Why dance? From prehistory to the Bible, scholar offers answers

      In the 1990s, leading Israeli scholar Yosef Garfinkel, head of the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, led several seasons of excavations at the Neolithic site of Sha’ar Hagolan in northern Israel. Among other things, the researchers uncovered several clay figurines depicting the deity Mother goddess presenting unnaturally elongated heads. For their artistic qualities, the figurines were exhibited in the most important museums around the world. For Garfinkel, they represented the spark which prompted him to investigate a new field of research, the history of human dance.

      “While I was trying to understand more about their ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Bible Humanities

    22. The Israeli method that could teach China to speak English

      Explore ISRAEL21c News
      The Israeli method that could teach China to speak English

      “How did you do on your Gaokao exams?”

      That phrase might not trip off the tongues of most Western students, but for high schoolers in China, it’s their key to acceptance into university – and to future success.

      What tips the balance? Proficiency in English. And for most Chinese students, that’s a tough bar to meet.

      “While 22% of the Gaokao is English itself, up to 50% of it is dependent on your ability to understand the language,” explains Howard Cooper, CEO of MagniLEARN, an Israeli startup applying artificial intelligence to teaching English online.

      MagniLEARN grew out of the ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Science/Technology artificial intelligence

    23. Hebrew University receives $1m from US couple for coronavirus lab - The Jerusalem Post

      Explore Jpost News
      Hebrew University receives $1m from US couple for coronavirus lab - The Jerusalem Post
      A Virginia couple has donated $1 million to assist the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in its new program designated to fight the coronavirus.  
       
      The $1 million made by Brad and Sheryl Schwartz through American Friends of Hebrew University (AFHU) will assist in building a top-level bio-safety lab, the first of its kind dedicated to non-governmental research. The donation is a major first step toward funding a biocontainment level 3 national laboratory, which will enable direct-contact research with the live virus, rather than virus components used in current labs.
      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Medicine/Health

    24. DNA from the Bible's Canaanites lives on in modern Arabs and Jews

      Explore National Geographic News
      DNA from the Bible's Canaanites lives on in modern Arabs and Jews

      THEY ARE BEST known as the people who lived “in a land flowing with milk and honey” until they were vanquished by the ancient Israelites and disappeared from history. But a scientific report published today reveals that the genetic heritage of the Canaanites survives in many modern-day Jews and Arabs.

      The study in Cell also shows that migrants from the distant Caucasus Mountains combined with the indigenous population to forge the unique Canaanite culture that dominated the area between Egypt and Mesopotamia during the Bronze Age, lasting from approximately 3500 B.C. until 1200 B.C.

      The team extracted ancient ...

      Read Full Article
      Mentions: Bible Humanities
    1-24 of 264 1 2 3 4 ... 9 10 11 »
  1. Search:

  2. Categories

    1. News:

      News, Placeholder

  3. Popular Articles

  4. AFHU Blog

    See all AFHU Blog articles

  5. Science/Technologies in the News

    1. (52 articles) Science/Technology
    2. (31 articles) Yissum
    3. (14 articles) entrepreneurship
    4. (12 articles) nanotechnology
    5. (8 articles) artificial intelligence
    6. (8 articles) mobileye
    7. (6 articles) STEM
    8. (3 articles) autonomous vehicles
    9. (2 articles) neurobiology
    10. (2 articles) cybersecurity

  6. Agricultures in the News

    1. (26 articles) Agriculture
    2. (14 articles) Faculty of Agriculture
    3. (3 articles) Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment
    4. (1 articles) Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agricuture

  7. Medicine/Healths in the News

    1. (54 articles) Medicine/Health
    2. (26 articles) cancer
    3. (11 articles) cannabis
    4. (7 articles) genetics
    5. (7 articles) cancer research
    6. (5 articles) medical marijuana
    7. (4 articles) neuroscience
    8. (4 articles) stem cells
    9. (1 articles) Alzheimer's
    10. (1 articles) Parkinson's

  8. Humanities in the News

    1. (39 articles) Humanities
    2. (13 articles) archaeology
    3. (6 articles) Bible
    4. (1 articles) philosophy
    5. (1 articles) Glocal