Discovery of the “Dipole Repeller” confirms that both attraction and repulsion are at play in our extragalactic neighborhood Jerusalem, January 30, 2017 — Although we can’t feel it, we’re in constant motion: the earth spins on its axis at about 1,600 km/h; it orbits around the sun at about 100,000 km/h; the sun orbits our …
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Hebrew University Researchers provide new insight into the brain mechanisms underlying a condition that causes reading and writing difficulties JERUSALEM, January 25, 2017 – Humans have a type of long-term memory — called ‘implicit memory’ — that means we respond less to stimuli as they are repeated over time (called “adaptation”). Now, researchers from the …
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After initially discovering that DNA methylation represses transcription, Howard Cedar continues to explore how the epigenetic mark regulates gene expression. In 1963, when Howard Cedar was a junior-year physics major at MIT, a specific event changed the course of his life, he says. He had just gotten back a graded exam in an atomic physics …
Study of 30,000 soldiers from 1987 to 2011 found that during compulsory military service, smoking increased by almost 40%. Researchers: comprehensive military tobacco-control plans are needed. In new research published in the peer-reviewed journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, researchers found that cigarette smoking increased by almost 40% during compulsory military service in the Israel Defense …
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Mortimer B. Zuckerman Announces Transformative Program to Support Future Generations of American & Israeli Leaders In Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Fields American business leader and philanthropist Mortimer Zuckerman announced today the launch of the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program, a transformative initiative designed to support future generations of leaders in science, technology, engineering and math …
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Chip scale high precision measurements of physical quantities such as temperature, pressure and refractive index have become common with nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics resonance cavities. As excellent transducers to convert small variations in the local refractive index into measurable spectral shifts, resonance cavities are being used extensively in a variety of disciplines ranging from bio-sensing and …
VIDEO: New modes of bacteriophage spread discovered https://youtu.be/YQLvTBCsOtM Bacteriophages (phages) are probably the most abundant entities in nature, often exceeding bacterial densities by an order of magnitude. As viral predators of bacteria, phages have a major impact on bacterial communities by reducing some bacteria and enabling others to flourish. Phages also occasionally package host DNA …
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Briefcam is being used by the police, in retail and beekeeping – Credit Briefcam Briefcam’s algorithms can spot murderers and monitor bees. Developed at the Hebrew University, Briefcam is changing how CCTV works. Briefcam has helped police find mass murderer Anders Breivik, spot the Boston marathon bombers and make sense of the Brussels attacks. How? By distilling …
States can no longer legislate solely within their own boundaries; project aims address war, crime and privacy in cyberspace. Israel’s Hebrew University of Jerusalem has set up a team of legal and technology experts to tackle the challenges posed by the new digital world and cyber-warfare to legal systems around the world. The aim will …
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Scientists present first direct evidence that human neocortical neurons have unique membrane properties that enhance signal processing Jerusalem, January 4, 2017 — The human brain’s advanced cognitive capabilities are often attributed to our recently evolved neocortex. Comparison of human and rodent brains shows that the human cortex is thicker, contains more white matter, has larger …
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