Davidson Institute of Science Education

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

Dr. Yonat Eshchar7 minApril 19

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Where There's Smoke, There's a Message
Lag Ba'Omer bonfires commemorate how word of the Bar Kokhba Revolt spread. How else
Israel's Unique Wildlife
Israel's unique geography endows it with a huge variety of plants and animals, some
The Science behind Israel's Fight for Independence
A large part of Israel's military success in the War of Independence can be credited
The Woman Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Soy
Yehudith Birk discovered the activity of a certain soy protein, enabling its use for a

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

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

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Science news

Jupiter's Deep Atmosphere

Findings of Israeli researchers, participating in spacecraft Juno’s research team, 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”. It all began with the WEIZAC computer 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, and evolved much earlier

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

In memory of Vera Rubin, the astrophysicist who shed new light on the motion of galaxies and provided evidence for the existence of dark matter

Ettay Nevo7 minDecember 27

Women in science

Like Parents, Like Daughter

On Irène Joliot-Curie’s 119th birthday, a second generation to the dynasty of great scientists, who won the Nobel Prize with her husband for discovering induced radioactivity