Novel technique reveals the intricate beauty of a cracked glass

Mittwoch, Jan 17, 2018

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....

Rare Einstein Documents Related To Historic Gravity Announcement

Donnerstag, 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...

Confirming Einstein

Montag, Mär 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

Dienstag, 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

Mittwoch, 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

Montag, Dez 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

Donnerstag, Dez 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”

Freitag, 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

Mittwoch, 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?

Dienstag, 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...

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