In the News Animals use color for camouflage, to send warning signals, attract mates, send social signals, and regulate their body temperature. UofH researchers have now discovered that in songbirds,…
In the News University of Haifa is leading an international observational campaign to map out the vicinity of black holes to better understand how they amass material and grow over…
In the News A list of twenty Israelis leading the way out of the climate crisis, compiled by Israel 21c ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow last…
In the News Early risers and late sleepers have different gut bacteria, according to a recent study. "We already know that there are some genetic differences between late-night 'owls' and…
In the News The Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities received a generous grant from the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation to continue its…
In the News An evolutionary phenomenon may explain why women and men have different temperature preferences. According to a new study published in Global Ecology and Biogeography, this phenomenon is not unique…
In the News Through the new partnership, researchers from University of Haifa and La Trobe University will collaborate on three projects: the relationship between artificial intelligence, social media and alcohol…
In the News Congratulations to Prof. Simone Shamay-Tsoory (Department of Psychology) on receiving an ERC Advanced Grant to explore neurological interbrain plasticity in interaction-based learning. This new approach may dramatically change…
In the News At a recent award ceremony for outstanding projects in memory of Pini Mattia, The Israeli Chamber of Information Technology granted the University of Haifa a special award for…
A new study reveals an alarming year-over-year spike in anti-Semitic tropes, images and rhetoric on TikTok. "TikTok caters primarily to young, impressionable and naive audiences. We need to take very…
The study, led by scientists from the Leon H. Charney School of Marine, revealed that pollutants such as copper, phosphorus, and zinc are still present in amounts much higher than…
Dr. Judith Somekh (Department of Information Systems) recently identified a novel data science method that significantly shortens the identification of cell-surface receptor functions that are responsible for inter-cellular communication in the…
An international study led by scientists from the Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology (University of Haifa at Oranim), Prof. Ido Izhaki (VP and Dean of Research) and Prof. Malka Halpern found that mosquito-like…
A major EU Horizons 2020 grant for the study of large forest fires has been awarded to an international consortium co-led by Dr. Avi Bar-Massada, a landscape ecologist at the Faculty…
A collaborative study by Drs. Tamar Lotan and Shani Levy (Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences) and Dr. Mickey Kosloff (Department of Human Biology) has discovered surprising evolutionary similarities in the functioning of…
The device, developed by Israeli company OutSense, clips onto the toilet and operates automatically, non-invasively, discreetly and without active user intervention. In addition to being 90% accurate in detecting traces of blood…
Prof. Assaf Distelfeld, Director of the Institute of Evolution, took part in a major international study that set out to decipher the complex genetic code of 15 bread wheat varieties…
As global temperatures rise, insect populations have expanded to new regions and reproduce more rapidly – making them a serious threat to cultivated wheat. A new study led by University…
A team of researchers led by Dr. Shani Stern, head of the Precision Disease Modeling Lab at the Sagol Department of Neurobiology, created a large computer simulation to study different…
A new study has found that the interferon beta (IFN-ẞ) protein plays an important role in limiting the immune system's role in inflammation and preventing deleterious outcomes of infection and…
A unique study has for the first time documented the common process of a sequential feather replacement (feather molting) found among modern birds in a winged dinosaur dating back 120…
A new study published recently in the journal Current Biology suggested that during the course of evolution, most animal species on Earth lost the ability to synthesize cholesterol autonomously. Cholesterol is a…
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