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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

Picture of Ettay NevoEttay Nevo4 minJuly 10
Science news

The Mystery of the Rare Mutation

An Israeli-Japanese collaboration revealed a unique genetic defect that leads to neural dysfunction

Picture of Alisa GreenbergAlisa Greenberg4 minJuly 9
Science news

Goat Sweet Goat

A genetic study including work by Israeli and Iranian scientists sheds new light on the origin of domesticated goats and reveals that they come from a number of distinct wild goat groups

Picture of Dr. Yonat EshcharDr. Yonat Eshchar5 minJuly 6
Science Panorama

Salt, Sand and Seashells: Science at the Beach

Why is the sea salty? What is sand made of and what does it have to do with wine?

Picture of Vered ShapiraVered Shapira7 minJuly 5
Leave room for doubt

Is a Hawaiian Volcano Raining Gemstones?

Geological “fake news”: reports of precious stones falling from the sky following the eruption of the Kilauea Volcano

Picture of Or EliasonOr Eliason3 minJune 19
Science Panorama

Losing control over the Brain’s Immune System

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

Picture of Dr. Iddo MagenDr. Iddo Magen6 minMay 31
Science History

The Physicist Who Bridged Size Differences

Yoseph (Joe) Imry, a pioneer in the field of mesoscopic physics, who developed methods for measuring quantum systems using larger tools and laid the foundations for many studies in nanotechnology, has passed away

Picture of Ettay NevoEttay 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

Picture of Dr. Yonat EshcharDr. Yonat Eshchar4 minMay 22
Science Panorama

Where There's Smoke, There's a Message

According to several traditions, the custom of lighting bonfires on Lag Ba'Omer commemorates the method of communication in the days of the Bar Kokhba Revolt. When and how did it come to be? What other methods were used to transmit messages in the ancient world?

Picture of Dr. Yonat EshcharDr. 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

Picture of Dr. Yonat EshcharDr. 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, which developed and manufactured armaments and laid the foundations for Israel's defense industry

Picture of Ettay NevoEttay 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

Picture of Ettay NevoEttay 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 Holocaust writers

Picture of Ettay NevoEttay 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

Picture of Ettay NevoEttay 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

Picture of Carmel ShorCarmel 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

Picture of Dr. Yonat EshcharDr. 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

Picture of Dr. Iddo MagenDr. 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

Picture of Dr. Yonat EshcharDr. Yonat Eshchar7 minJanuary 29