Two Bar-Ilan University researchers have received prestigious ERC Starting Grants from the European Research Council, securing a combined €3,472,380 (more than $4 million) to pursue groundbreaking research that challenges established assumptions in mental health and computer science. Prof. Reuma Gadassi-Polack of the Faculty of…
An international team including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Sir Roger Penrose has observed a long-predicted effect of gravity on a falling quantum object for the first time. The result shows that a fundamental principle at the heart of Einstein’s theory…
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev developed an innovative technology to treat crude oil and fuel pollution in marine and aquatic environments. Oil and fuel spills pose significant environmental challenges, contaminating water and soil and disrupting marine ecosystems. Conventional…
When a child asks “Why does a blowfish puff up?”, we often jump in with facts. But what if we paused and suggested that they ask instead, “How does a blowfish puff up?” It may seem like splitting hairs, but…
As wildfires become more frequent and severe due to climate change, the Technion has joined the Ministry of National Security, the Israel Innovation Authority, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and the Israel Fire and Rescue Authority in developing an advanced drone-based…
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) proudly congratulates Prof. Haim Sompolinsky, one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and neuroscientists, on being awarded the prestigious 2026 Dirac Medal and Prize by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). The organization…
Qedma Quantum Computing, a pioneer in quantum error reduction software and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a breakthrough study demonstrating how trusted, error-mitigated quantum computation is possible, and can be used to explore the physics of materials beyond the capabilities…
New Science Advances paper calls for broader action as Coral Art-Science Consortium launches to unite artists, designers and scientists in protecting Earth’s most threatened ecosystems. Coral reefs are disappearing at an unprecedented rate as climate change, marine heatwaves, pollution and coastal…
The model developed by the researchers estimated that, in the area where pollution concentrations were highest, up to 75.4 percent of species living in the upper water layers may have been exposed to levels of toxic substances associated with harmful…
Researchers have identified a simple form of molecular cooperation that may have helped life’s earliest building blocks become more stable and organized. By linking fatty acids, which can form primitive cell membranes, with hydroxy acids, which can form short polymers,…
