Happiness might lead to better health but does it help you live longer? That’s a question that researchers at Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) took on in a longitudinal study they began back in the 1990s. They looked at the impact of…
The 44-hour hackathon also included solutions to solve parking lot issues, detect a hand signal used for people in distress from domestic abuse, data analysis to prevent bullying in schools, and a wearable device for the hearing impaired that vibrates…
Red palm weevils could arguably be called a global palm tree pandemic. Over the last decade they have migrated across the globe, laying their eggs in the trees so their larvae can munch on the tree as they grow. The…
In an effort to increase agricultural productivity and limit waste, a team of researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU)’s Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment developed a method to detect signs of stress before the plant is damaged. Plants…
ZAVIT. Although the Green Revolution brought wheat production to its highest capacity, it slashed wheat’s genetic diversity making it less resilient to climate change stressors. An Israeli initiative may be wheat’s best shot at genetic restoration. For thousands of years, the…
Antibiotic resistant bacteria are a looming super threat – heralding a time when our drugs will no longer be effective against prevalent infections. Hospitals are already coping with treatment-resistant bacterial infections. Cognizant of the threat and thinking outside the box,…
Scientific committee of the RAKIA mission selects vision technology used and modified by Bar-Ilan University to be tested during Israeli astronaut’s upcoming space trip. Prolonged exposure to microgravity conditions during space missions can impair various physiological function in general, and the visual…
The Israel-based mobile software technology company Umoove has announced the launch of MindReset, an app that will help users clear their distressed minds through very short, eye tracking based, sessions. Emotional life events leave emotional memory images which can replay subconsciously in various…
A joint study by the University of Haifa, the Centre for Genomic Regulation (Barcelona), and the Weizmann Institute have managed to sequence – for the first time – the genetic program of each cell type in stony corals. This allows…
Ever since the coronavirus became a wide-spread global pandemic, medical researchers have sought to understand how the virus impacts other medical ailments, especially neurological ones. In early 2020, New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital reported that five younger patients stricken with…
