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Side-by-side, the newly imagined 60,000-year-old skeletal chest and its original, Kebara 2, discovered in the Carmel Mountains in 1983. (A. Gómez-Olivencia, A. Barash and E. Been/J. Trueba/Madrid Scientific Films)
November 9, 2018, 6:24 am
3-D model of Neanderthal rib cage busts myth of ‘hunched-over cavemen’
High-tech visualization techniques on Israeli skeleton give new window into lives of our early human cousins, who survived extreme conditions but went extinct some 30,000 years ago
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative: Close up of woman taking a pill (iStock)
July 12, 2018, 11:30 am
Israel leading charge toward the next health frontier: Personalized medicine
With its variety of homogeneous populations and tech background, the Startup Nation can be a key player in the medicine of the future, says Prof. Shulamit Michaeli
By Shoshanna Solomon
A Merck researcher does work on quantum materials (PRNewsFoto/Merck KGaA)
May 30, 2018, 3:45 pm
How quantum physics can make Israel more secure
The prime minister’s freshly announced project recruits some revolutionary technologies and excites scientists
By Shoshanna Solomon
The rTMS coil is placed near the head and pulses of currents (yellow) are transmitted through it. These pulses generate a magnetic field which excites neurons in a specific spot in the brain, allowing for non-invasive treatment. (Prof. Ido Kanter, Bar Ilan University)
May 27, 2018, 12:46 pm
Study recommends lowering the dosage of magnetic stimulation for mental illness
Israeli, German researchers say brain neurons ‘get tired’ when stimulated too fast and cease to respond to noninvasive rTMS brain therapy
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative: A trainer walks with a service dog through the Terminal C at Newark Liberty International Airport as part of an April 2017 exercise put on by the Seeing Eye puppy program. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
May 18, 2018, 6:48 pm
Israeli army recruits its first blind officer
Hila Meudah, who lost her sight as child and was exempt from military service, appointed a legal adviser in the Air Force
By JTA
The team working at the Tel 'Eton archaeological excavation in Israel's Shphelah region. (Courtesy Avraham Faust/ Tel 'Eton Archaeological Expedition)
May 14, 2018, 6:01 am
Proof of King David? Not yet. But riveting site shores up roots of Israelite era
Based on controversial carbon dating, Prof. Avraham Faust’s Tel ‘Eton excavation offers up startling look at a settlement formed at the foundation of the United Monarchy
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Bar-Ilan University Prof. Adam Ferziger, the director-designate for the new Impact Center for Research on Judaism in Israel and North America. (Courtesy)
May 8, 2018, 11:01 am
New center on Israeli and Diaspora Judaism aims to mind — and bridge — the gap
Led by Prof. Adam Ferziger, Bar-Ilan’s think tank for Research on Judaism in Israel and North America to inaugurate new MA program for ‘specialists’ on both sides of the pond
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
An illustrative image of an anaphylaxis auto injector for allergy reactions (CarrieCaptured; iStock by Getty Images)
March 26, 2018, 6:20 pm
In urgent need of an EpiPen? App may find you one, stat
Israeli researchers and Magen David Adom create community of allergy sufferers who can help each other out in a pinch, using proximity-based algorithms
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative image of an eye test (Visivasnc; iStock by Getty Images)
March 19, 2018, 1:57 pm
‘Revolutionary’ Nano-Drops can help banish eyeglasses, Israeli researchers say
Researchers hope to create a DIY system to improve eyesight using a smartphone, a small laser and some eye drops
By Shoshanna Solomon
An illustrative photo of the Bar-Ilan University campus. (CC-BY/Avishai Teicher/Wikimedia Commons)
October 29, 2017, 11:44 pm
University student kicked out of class for refusing to remove hijab
Bar-Ilan lecturer apologizes for incident, will face disciplinary committee and apologize again in front of entire class
By TOI staff
Fragments of dyed woolen textile with red and blue stripes found in Israel's Timna Valley (Clara Amit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)
June 28, 2017, 9:07 pm
What color blue did King Solomon wear? New evidence tells us
Excavations of copper mines find earliest Israeli traces of dye used for prestigious garments for skilled workers
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Members of Bar Ilan's QUEST Center, Prof. Avi Peer and Dr. Emanuele Dalla Torre meet in Jerusalem with the head of the European Quantum Flagship initiative, Prof. Jürgen Mlynek (Courtesy: Segev Ben Yehuda)
April 30, 2017, 1:53 pm
Bar-Ilan University to set up quantum research center
New facility will focus on understanding quantum entanglement and developing new technologies
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative: Newborn babies in a Jerusalem hospital. (Flash90)
April 13, 2017, 4:08 am
Numbers game: Do Jewish leaders manipulate existential fears with statistics?
Eclectic essays explore Ben-Gurion’s experimentation with demographic eugenics, and the Jewish ardor — and abhorrence — for taking stock
By Matt Lebovic
A Lybia crab found in Eilat (Courtesy Yisrael Schnytzer)
March 12, 2017, 5:49 pm
Meet the Israeli crab that crawled out from under a rock to global stardom
The ‘boxer crab’ or ‘pom-pom crab’ permanently holds a sea anemone in each claw. Researchers from Bar-Ilan University are trying to figure out why
By Simona Weinglass
Christian Orthodox worshippers hold up candles lit from the 'Holy Fire' as thousands gather in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 30, 2016, during the Orthodox Easter ceremonies.(AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
October 16, 2016, 7:05 pm
UNESCO’s Jerusalem resolution ignores Christian roots, too
With increased archeological findings of a Byzantine presence prior to the Muslim conquest, the historical holy site is clearly linked to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity — and not necessarily in that order
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
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