Team finds 'tipping point' between quantum and classical worlds
If we are ever to fully harness the power of light for use in optical devices, it is necessary to understand photons - the fundamental unit of light. Achieving such understanding, however, is easier...
View ArticleChildren of Holocaust survivors more anxious about Iranian nuclear threat...
As preparations are made to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day (Thursday, April 16), a new Bar-Ilan University study reveals that the adult children of Holocaust survivors are more preoccupied with the...
View Article'Tangles' trigger early-stage Alzheimer's abnormalities in neocortical networks
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative condition that strikes at the heart of what makes us human: the ability to think, to feel, to remember and to communicate with those around us. The...
View ArticleNeuroscientists reveal autism's 'noisy' secret
Strapped into a motion-enabled simulator and wearing 3D glasses, 36 adolescent volunteers recently experienced what it was like to "travel" through a field of virtual stars. The experiments provided...
View ArticleModel mimics how dormant infections caused by childhood chicken pox can...
The red, itchy rash caused by varicella-zoster - the virus that causes chickenpox - usually disappears within a week or two. But once infection occurs, the varicella-zoster virus, or VZV, remains...
View ArticleArchaeologists uncover entrance gate and fortification of Biblical city
The Ackerman Family Bar-Ilan University Expedition to Gath, headed by Prof. Aren Maeir, has discovered the fortifications and entrance gate of the biblical city of Gath of the Philistines, home of...
View ArticleWhere bread began: Ancient tools used to reconstruct—and taste—prehistoric...
A group of intrepid Israeli researchers recently went back to the dawn of the Stone Age to make lunch.
View ArticlePhilistines introduced sycamore, cumin and opium poppy into Israel during the...
One of the most pressing issues in modern biological conservation is "invasion biology". Due to unprecedented contacts between peoples and culture in today's "global village" certain animal and plant...
View ArticlePreventing chromosomal chaos: Protein-based genome-stabilizing mechanism...
Most people are familiar with the double-helix shape that allows genetic information to be packed into a molecule of human DNA. Less well-known is how all this information - which, if laid end-to-end,...
View Article'Battle of the Sexes'—How inhibition of male flower production lets female...
Most people don't know this, but the cucumbers we buy in the supermarket are purely female - grown from plants which were carefully cross-bred to produce female-only flowers. But while farmers have...
View ArticleAnalysis of neuronal avalanches reveals spatial temporal roadmap of humans...
The word 'avalanche' is generally associated with violent and unexpected events—such as rockslides, or the sudden collapse of unstable drifts of snow. But in brain research, avalanches—intermittent...
View ArticleConfidence in Iron Dome, coupled with resilience, can reduce PTSD symptoms
Bar-Ilan University researchers have found that belief in the success of the Iron Dome air defense system, coupled with a strong sense of resilience (an inner trait that results in positive adaptation...
View ArticleGenome of 6,000-year-old barley grains sequenced for first time
An international team of researchers has succeeded for the first time in sequencing the genome of Chalcolithic barley grains. This is the oldest plant genome to be reconstructed to date. The...
View ArticleSolving a cryptic puzzle with a little help from a hologram
A recent discovery published in Nature Physics provides an innovative technique for calculating the shapes of electrons. This finding will help scientists gain a better and faster understanding of the...
View ArticleWhere is my mind? New study looks for the cortical conscious network
Our brain is a very complex network, with approximately 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses between the neurons. In order to cope with its enormous complexity, and understand how the brain...
View ArticleBrain blocks new memory formation on waking to safeguard consolidation of...
During consolidation, the brain produces new proteins that strengthen fragile memory traces. However, if a new experience occurs while an existing memory trace is being consolidated, the new stimuli...
View ArticleIsraeli backpackers demonstrated resounding leadership in aftermath of Nepal...
Prof. Haya Itzhaky was enjoying a routine day in Nepal on April 25, 2015. She had been in the region for about three months studying the behavior of post-Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Israeli backpackers...
View ArticleScientists create a nano-trampoline to probe quantum behavior
A research group from Bar-Ilan University, in collaboration with French colleagues at CNRS Grenoble, has developed a unique experiment to detect quantum events in ultra-thin films. This novel research,...
View ArticleScientists effectively disrupt communication between parasites that spread...
Prof. Shulamit Michaeli, Dean of Bar-Ilan's Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, and member of the Bar-Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), has demonstrated how...
View ArticleResearchers discover new type of memory effect in transition metal oxides
Transition metal oxides (TMO) are extensively studied, technologically important materials, due to their complex electronic interactions, resulting in a large variety of collective phenomena. Memory...
View ArticleWanting more self-control could hinder our efforts to exert self-control,...
Turning down that delicious piece of chocolate cake. Resisting the temptation to buy clothes that we don't need. If we want to watch our weight and save our pennies, these enticements demand that we...
View ArticlePositive father-child relationship can moderate negative effects of maternal...
Maternal depression negatively impacts children's emotional and cognitive development and family life. Studies have shown that a home in which the mother suffers from depression exhibits lower...
View ArticleA new compound targets energy generation, thereby killing metastatic cells
Cancer can most often be successfully treated when confined to one organ. But a greater challenge lies in treating cancer that has metastasized, or spread, from the primary tumor throughout the...
View ArticleBrain researchers gain greater understanding of how we generate internal...
Our mental life is rich with an enormous number of internal experiences. The diversity of these experiences is astonishing. We can vividly recall an episode from childhood as well as what we did just...
View ArticlePhysicists negate century-old assumption regarding neurons and brain activity
Neurons are the basic computational building blocks that compose our brain. Their number is approximately one Tera (trillion), similar to Tera-bits in midsize hard discs. According to the neuronal...
View ArticleCutting the cord is easier said than done
Chances are, you have someone in your life who causes a lot of tension and stress. Difficult relationships are common. They are also commonly difficult to evade. Who are these people and why can't we...
View ArticleYazidi women suffering from high percentage of C-PTSD, new study finds
As the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) stormed Iraq and attempted to conquer the country in 2014, its members committed genocide against the Yazidi population, a Kurdish religious minority. Men...
View ArticleForging a quantum leap in quantum communication
Quantum communication, which ensures absolute data security, is one of the most advanced branches of the "second quantum revolution". In quantum communication, the participating parties can detect any...
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