Bar-Ilan University and Doral Group, an entrepreneurial company in the field of renewable energy, have signed a series of agreements for strategic collaboration. Doral will become a member of Bar-Ilan's Energy and Sustainability Center, and the entities will work to promote research, development, and commercialization of several issues, as well as identify and realize joint business opportunities in response to global challenges in the fields of renewable energy, climate and environment. The agreements were signed through BIRAD, Bar-Ilan Research and Development company.

Ed Sheeran’s song Shivers is as likely to appeal to extraverts living in the UK as those living in Argentina or India. Those with neurotic traits in the US are as likely to be into Nirvana’s Smells like Teen Spirit as people with a similar personality living in Denmark or South Africa. Agreeable people the world over will tend to like Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, or Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s Shallow; while national borders cannot stop open people from replaying David Bowie’s Space Oddity or Nina Simone.

Some might view games as merely entertainment but for Prof. Emanuele Dalla Torre at Bar-Ilan University and his team, playing games is useful for measuring the effectiveness of today’s commercial quantum computers.

Two Bar-Ilan University researchers - Prof. Michal Alberstein, of the Faculty of Law, and Prof. Sharon Ruthstein, of the Department of Chemistry and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials - are the recipients of European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept (PoC) grants for their innovation proposals: MULTIDOOR and Hypo-Imag.

The Proof of Concept grant provides complementary funding to Starting, Consolidator, Advanced and Synergy grantees to enable ERC-funded ideas to progress on the path from groundbreaking research towards innovation.

Vitamin D is most often recognized for its role in bone health, but low levels of the supplement have been associated with a range of autoimmune, cardiovascular, and infectious diseases. Early on in the pandemic health officials began to encourage people to take vitamin D, as it plays a role in promoting immune response and could protect against COVID-19.

A new study, led by researchers from Bar-Ilan University, Ono Academic College, The University of Tulsa, and the Israel Antiquities Authority, presents a 1.5-million-year-old human vertebra discovered in Israel's Jordan Valley. According to the research published on February 2 in the journal Scientific Reports, ancient human migration from Africa to Eurasia was not a one-time event but occurred in waves. The first wave reached the Republic of Georgia in the Caucasus approximately 1.8 million years ago.

Prof. Beena Kalisky of Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Physics is the winner of the Na'amat Centennial Prize for groundbreaking women scientists.

Prof. Kalisky, a world-renowned physicist, states that “as a researcher, I cannot separate my scientific work from being a woman, a wife and a mother.” The prize committee noted that Prof. Kalisky indeed “attests to the fact that there is no need for such a separation and that there is no one more deserving than her to receive Naamat’s Centennial Prize.”

Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee will offer a new course, that aims to provide exposure to the use of innovative three-dimensional-based technologies for medical treatment. The course will be led by Prof. Samer Srouji, Director of the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at the Galilee Medical Center.