Ever wonder how long it takes security companies to watch hours of surveillance videos? Prof. Shmuel Peleg of the Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem did wonder – and his invention, lisenced to Israeli company – BriefCam – has now won the prestigious 2010 Wall Street Journal Technology [...]

Prof. Elon Lindenstrauss of the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem recently received the Fields Medal for 2010 – a prize regarded as the “Nobel Prize” in mathematics that is awarded once in four years. He was the first Israeli to be awarded the medal. The Fields Prize is given to [...]

A tiny clay fragment – dating from the 14th century B.C.E. – that was found in excavations outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls contains the oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem, say researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The find, believed to be part of a tablet from a royal archives, further testifies to [...]

Batteries are dangerous. If left unused in a product for an long time, they can can leak and ruin the product. They could cause severe chemical burns. Imagine being able to replace your battery with a potato?

If you smoke tobacco it will make you look old. But there is finally a good use for tobacco that won’t harm your health. In fact it can make you look young again. A scientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment has succeeded in producing a [...]

Japan is being introduced to Israeli high school students in a unique program run by Japanese Studies students at the Department of East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The program, which aims to introduce Japanese society and culture to new layers of Israeli society, was developed with the support of the Embassy [...]

Regarded as the State of Israel’s highest honor, the prize is traditionally awarded every year on Independence Day in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset chairperson and the Supreme Court president. This year, the three Hebrew University recipients are: Prof. Avishai Margalit Prof. Margalit is the 2010 recipient of the Israel [...]

I ask you, have you ever heard of a cooler idea than to have videos of university lectures shown on the train for commuters? If you were on the train leaving Tel Aviv for Haifa at two specific times this morning, you would have been able to hear a lecture on brain science breakthroughs. It [...]

Dr. Limor Shifman of Hebrew U and Dafna Lemish of Tel Aviv U studied the current state of blonde jokes. Their research was published in the journal Society. In case you thought that blond hair and low IQ really are connected genetically, well, this probably isn’t the case. Very possibly, argue Shifman and Lemish, men [...]

If there is more than one cell phone per person in a country, what does that say about the country? And, by the way, keep in mind that in a list of 212 countries from 2007, Canada only came in 112th place with a mere 0.576 phones per person. The United States was 72nd on [...]