October 2021
Combining biology with machine learning, a new treatment developed at Bar-Ilan focuses on destroying cancer cells without endangering healthy cells.
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June 2, 2020
The tunnel is equipped with an automated aerosol spray system which quickly disinfects individuals, clothes and potentially contaminated belongings.
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March 2020
[VIDEO] Dr. Baruch Barzel, Network Scientist at Bar-Ilan, talks about mitigating the spread of Coronavirus.
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March 2020
Ran Kremer, a Master鈥檚 student in electrical engineering at Bar-Ilan University, shows how the Kalman filter can accurately predict the worldwide spread of coronavirus.
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March 2020
An Israeli startup will donate around 120,000 masks made with an anti-pathogen, anti-bacterial fabric
that could help stop the spread of coronavirus.
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February 2020
Using a new technology developed by Dr. Amos Danielli, of the Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, saliva tests can be analyzed within 15 minutes.
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March 19, 2020
A letter from Prof. Arie Zaban, President of Bar-Ilan University, about the Coronavirus and the status of the University at this time.
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October 2019
Prof. Moshe Bar, head of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University, has ADHD and is proud of it. “I don’t see ADHD as a disorder,” he explains. “It confers advantages. It’s nature’s way of enriching diversity, so that not everyone thinks the same way.”
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April 12, 2019
Since 1996, Prof. Aren Maeir of Bar Ilan University has been the director of the Tell es-Safi/Gath excavation. Among the remarkable findings dug up by Professor Maeir and his team are a Philistine Temple, the remains of a Crusader-era castle, and myriad ritual items dating back to the Iron Age.
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December 2018
Gedanken has devised a unique patent-pending microwave-based process to convert biomass to biofuels. 鈥淚t is hoped that this will be the replacement for fossil oil in the future,鈥 says the BIU scientist, named as one of Israel鈥檚 most highly cited researchers.
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December 2018
Kaminka works his high-tech magic in the robotics and artificial intelligence lab of the Department of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan. Some of his robotic programming is employed by the IDF in patrolling the dangerous borders and tunnels of the Gaza strip.
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December 2018
How do we prevent catastrophes from plaguing us in the future? The answer lies in “network science,” and the man at the forefront of this monumental task for Israel is Dr. Baruch Barzel, a top researcher, physicist, applied mathematician and network specialist at Bar-Ilan
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December 2018
Prof. Doron Aurbach of Bar-Ilan University will share the Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation, PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Science Minister Ofir Akunis announced. The annual $1m. award is the largest prize in the field of innovation of alternative fuels for transportation worldwide.
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December 2018
Distinguished Bar-Ilan University Professor Schlomo Havlin has been awarded the prestigious Israel Prize In Physics. The prize committee noted that “of all Israeli scientists, Prof. Havlin is the most cited by scientists around the world.”
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December 2018
Network science has greatly evolved in the past decade, and is currently a leading scientific field in the description of complex systems, which affect every aspect of our daily life.
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December 2018
BIU researchers have discovered that an enzyme normally found only in sperm cells is the same one that enables cancer cells to metastasize throughout the body, and devised a synthetic compound to disable it.
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December 2017
Prof. Kaminka and his team have been developing award-winning technology that is protecting Israeli citizens and keeping IDF soldiers from harm’s way.
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February 2017
Beyond words, volumes may be learned from the human voice: Is a cry for help genuine or fake? Does a person unknowingly suffer from a vocal cord disorder? What is the relationship between spouses, or the compatibility of a therapist and patient? BIU computer scientist Dr. Joseph Keshet, a foremost authority on voice analysis, has developed sophisticated systems and software to address such questions and tap the vast potential in this exciting frontier field.
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December 2016
Scientists from Bar-Ilan University and Harvard have cracked the code of several enigmatic experiments 鈥 performed over the past 15 years on superconductors 鈥 by developing a mathematical tool to find the shape of the electrons in these materials. Their recent discovery published in Nature Physics provides an innovative technique for calculating the shapes of electrons. This finding will help scientists gain a better understanding of the properties of complex materials, said Dr. Emanuele Dalla Torre of BIU’s Dept of Physics.
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June 2016
Do miracles require a supernatural tour de force or are they often a matter of Divine “timing”? Chemistry Prof. Aryeh Frimer explores the phenomenon from a Torah and science perspective.
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