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Israeli Spacecraft on Its Way to the Moon

SpaceIL's spacecraft is scheduled to land on the Moon in February 2019

Is a Hawaiian Volcano Raining Gemstones?

Geological “fake news”: the reports of precious stones falling from the sky following the eruption of the Kilauea Volcano are not consistent with the facts

Or Eliason3 minJune 19

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Israeli Spacecraft on Its Way to the Moon
SpaceIL's spacecraft is scheduled to land on the Moon in February 2019
Is a Hawaiian Volcano Raining Gemstones?
Geological “fake news”: reports of precious stones falling from the sky following the
Losing control over the Brain’s Immune System
What happens when regulation mechanisms on the cell that protect the brain get out of
The Physicist Who Bridged Size Differences
Yoseph Imry, a mesoscopic physics pioneer, has passed away

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Losing control over the Brain’s Immune System

What happens when regulation mechanisms on the cell that protect the brain get out of hand?

Dr. Iddo Magen6 minMay 31

Science History

The Physicist Who Bridged Size Differences

Yoseph Imry, a mesoscopic physics pioneer, has passed away

Ettay Nevo6 minMay 30

Science news

The World Belongs to the Plants

An Israeli study raised interesting findings about the mass of all organisms, as well as disturbing findings about the impact of mankind

Dr. Yonat Eshchar4 minMay 22

The Meter30Years can the naked mole-rat live - 10 times more than a similar-sized rodents

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Science Panorama

Where There's Smoke, There's a Message

Lag Ba'Omer bonfires commemorate how word of the Bar Kokhba Revolt spread. How else were messages conveyed in the ancient world?

Dr. Yonat Eshchar9 minMay 1

Science Panorama

Israel's Unique Wildlife

Israel's unique geography endows it with a huge variety of plants and animals, some of which are not found anywhere else in the world. These unique species’ limited distribution also deems them more vulnerable to extinction

Dr. Yonat Eshchar7 minApril 19

Science Panorama

The Science behind Israel's Fight for Independence

A large part of Israel's military success in the War of Independence can be credited to the Science Corps

Ettay Nevo7 minApril 17

Women in science

The Woman Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Soy

Yehudith Birk discovered the activity of a certain soy protein, enabling its use for a wide range of applications – from pest control to cancer treatment

Ettay Nevo4 minApril 16

Science History

The Chemist Who Arose from the Ashes

Marking 31 years since the death of Primo Levi, an Auschwitz survivor who became one of the most prominent and important Holocaust writers

Ettay Nevo8 minApril 11

Science news

Jupiter's Deep Atmosphere

Findings of Israeli researchers, participating in spacecraft Juno’s research team, reveal that Jupiter’s atmosphere extends much deeper than previously thought, and chart a new map of the planet’s structure

Ettay Nevo5 minMarch 7

Science History

The First Israeli Computer

We take pride in being “the startup nation” – and rightfully so. It all began with the WEIZAC computer, built of vacuum tubes and capacitors at the Weizmann Institute of Science

Carmel Shor8 minMarch 5

Science news

Mankind's Family Tree

An Israeli-American study, based on data from millions of social-network users, analyzed different age patterns of death, immigration, and marriage, extracting important information

Dr. Yonat Eshchar4 minMarch 2

Science news

Israeli Study Finds: Smoking Cessation Drugs have Low Long-Term Efficacy

Researchers from Tel-Aviv University performed a meta-analysis of dozens of studies and concluded that one year post treatment, the drugs benefit only eight percent of smokers

Dr. Iddo Magen4 minJanuary 31

Science news

A Man Before his Time

Findings from a cave on Mt. Carmel indicate that modern humans departed Africa tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought

Dr. Yonat Eshchar7 minJanuary 29

Science news

Towards a Migraine-Specific Drug

Two migraine-targeting drugs are in late-stage trials, including one from the Israeli pharmaceuticals company Teva, and at least one of them may be approved as early as next year

Dr. Iddo Magen5 minJanuary 8

Women in science

The Woman behind Dark Matter

Vera Rubin, a groundbreaking American astrophysicist who shed new light on the motion of galaxies and provided evidence for the existence of dark matter, has passed away

Ettay Nevo7 minDecember 27

Women in science

Like Parents, Like Daughter

The 119th birthday of Irène Joliot-Curie, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering induced radioactivity

Dr. Naama Charit7 minDecember 27

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Israeli Spacecraft on Its Way to the Moon

Is a Hawaiian Volcano Raining Gemstones?

This week's most read article

Israeli Spacecraft on Its Way to the Moon

Is a Hawaiian Volcano Raining Gemstones?

Losing control over the Brain’s Immune System

The Physicist Who Bridged Size Differences

Losing control over the Brain’s Immune System

The Physicist Who Bridged Size Differences

The World Belongs to the Plants

Where There's Smoke, There's a Message

Israel's Unique Wildlife

The Science behind Israel's Fight for Independence

The Woman Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Soy

The Chemist Who Arose from the Ashes

Jupiter's Deep Atmosphere

The First Israeli Computer

Mankind's Family Tree

Israeli Study Finds: Smoking Cessation Drugs have Low Long-Term Efficacy

A Man Before his Time

Towards a Migraine-Specific Drug

The Woman behind Dark Matter

Like Parents, Like Daughter