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Reducing sugar in orange juice due to pioneering beverage collaboration
Editor’s note: For the past 30 years, Better Juice’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Roni Shapira, has been a senior lecturer…
Hebrew U scientific experiments to be performed in outer space
Hebrew U Professor Tsvi Piran decodes mechanism for gamma-ray bursts from space
A researcher from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has been able to name the “Rosetta stone of gamma-rays bursts.” [caption…
Hebrew U-based Lightricks, photo and video app start-up, raises $135m, valued at $1bn
Editor’s note: Lightricks, based out of Hebrew U, Mobileye, and Hebrew U’s Innovation Center were also featured in the recent…
Hebrew U researchers develop MRI technique to detect molecular changes in brain
[caption id="attachment_5125" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Standard MRI brain scan of a pig, right, and a new MRI scan showing differences in…
HU archeologists: 3,500-year-old staircase hints at Canaanite kingdom’s grandeur
[caption id="attachment_5078" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Stunning 8th century BCE staircase and paved entrance hall at Tel Hazor. Seven stunning large basalt…
Babies show empathy as early as 6 months old
Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion University (BGU) on Monday said Israeli research proves that babies start to show empathy as early…
Prof. Raphael Mechoulam, HU’s godfather of cannabinoid research, spotlights latest work
Now in his 80s, the venerated scientist who isolated THC and CBD is still fascinated by the endocannabinoid system—and still…
Einstein’s unusual couch surfing adventure
100 years ago this week, Einstein needed a cheap place to crash in Europe. You’ll never guess who’s house he…