The Jeremy Coller Foundation and Tel Aviv University (TAU) have announced the four finalists for the first annual $100,000 prize from the Coller Dolittle Challenge for Interspecies Two-Way Communication. Annual prizes of $100,000 will be awarded until a team “cracks the code” of interspecies communication, winning the $10 million Grand Prize. The four finalists have… Read More
Tel Aviv University (TAU) today announced a historic $125 million gift from the Gray Foundation to transform its Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. The gift – the largest ever to TAU – will significantly expand capacity at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, improve access for students and elevate the quality of education,… Read More
On April 23, 2025, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry and the Irwin Cotler Institute for Democracy, Human Rights and Justice, both at Tel Aviv University (TAU), published the annual Antisemitism Worldwide report, which focuses on 2024. The 160-page report was prepared by 11 researchers. The annual… Read More
A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) found that diagnoses and treatment recommendations given by AI were more accurate than those of physicians at a Los Angeles virtual urgent care clinic. The study, conducted at Cedars-Sinai Connect, compared recommendations given in about 500 visits of adult patients with relatively common respiratory, urinary, eye, vaginal… Read More
A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) reveals that the Greater Mouse-Tailed Bat (Rhinopoma microphyllum) uses its long tail as a natural tactile sensor to navigate backward in dark caves. The bat’s long tail functions as a dynamic sensing tool, enabling it to avoid obstacles and orient itself in complex environments while climbing backward,… Read More
Researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed an innovative method that can help to understand better how cells behave in changing biological environments, such as those found within a cancerous tumor. The new system, called scNET, combines information on gene expression at the single-cell level with information on gene interactions, enabling the identification of… Read More
A team of Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers from the discipline of prehistoric archaeology has proposed an innovative hypothesis regarding an intriguing question: Why did ancient humans bring their young children to cave painting sites, deep underground and through dark, meandering, hazardous passages? While most hypotheses have focused on the educational aspect of their presence… Read More
An international research team led by scientists from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and Sheba Medical Center has unveiled an innovative method for activating adult stem cells from human bone marrow, enabling their expansion outside the body for use in bone marrow regeneration and the construction of a new blood and immune system. The findings, published… Read More