Davidson Institute of Science Education

Jupiter's Deep Atmosphere

Israeli researchers, collaborating with the research team of spacecraft Juno, illustrate a new map for the structure of the planet

Ettay Nevo5 minMarch 7

Science History

The First Hebrew Computer

We like to take pride in the title "Startup Nation". It all began at the Weizmann Institute of Science, with the WEIZAC computer.

Carmel Shor8 minMarch 5

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The Family Tree of Mankind

An American-Israeli study collected important information from data of millions of users on social networks

Dr. Yonat Eshchar4 minMarch 2

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

Integration of dozens of studies revealed that the drugs benefit only eight percent of smokers one year post treatment

Dr. Iddo Magen4 minJanuary 31

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A Man Before his Time

Findings from a cave on Mt. Carmel indicate that modern man exited Africa tens of thousands of years before previously thought

Dr. Yonat Eshchar7 minJanuary 29

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

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Towards a Migraine-Specific Drug

Two drugs targeting migraines are in advanced research stages, one of which is being developed by the Israeli Teva pharmaceuticals

Dr. Iddo Magen5 minJanuary 8

Women in science

The Woman behind Dark Matter

Vera Rubin, 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

The Scientist that did not Fall Far from the Tree

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