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Twinkle, twinkle, little satellite How I wonder at your radar sight Up above clouds thick and black Sending pictures sharp as a tack Twinkle,…

Dating archeological finds has long required taking a bit of the artifact to find out how many years ago it lived or was made, and where it…

A few days before traditional Jews celebrate the 5,771st anniversary of God’s creation of the world on Rosh Hashana, eminent British theoretical…

If staffers at Bar-Ilan University’s magnificent new nanotechnology research center take frequent coffee breaks to chat in the atrium that links its…

A US-Israeli astronomy team has discovered a very small heavenly body - less than a kilometer across - in the Kuiper belt at the far reaches of our…

Immigrants from North America will notice that the leaves of deciduous trees fated to fall to the ground in autumn are not red but yellow. Now…

A chemical engineer at the Technion who was named one of the world's 35 top young scientists after developing a device that can detect cancers by…

In the 1967 movie The Graduate, the Next Big Thing that young Ben Braddock was advised to go into was "plastics." At the end of the first decade of…

Former British prime minister Tony Blair and the co-discoverer of the AIDS virus, Prof. Robert Gallo, will receive two of the three 2009 Dan David…

Apartment buildings and houses built on pillars are at high risk in an earthquake. Most such buildings here were constructed in the 1950s, 60s and…

Just like its namesake, the Phoenix Mars mission raises from the ashes both a spacecraft and instruments from two previous unsuccessful attempts to…

Prof. Ben-Ami Sela has made a habit of shaking things up. Born and raised in Tel Aviv, the director of Sheba Medical Center's institute of chemical…

Two Israelis, two Americans and one Briton will share $100,000 Wolf Prizes in the two categories of medicine and agriculture, according to an…

A Renaissance man who is an expert in fields running from chemistry and nanotechnology to materials science and molecular biology, Prof. George M.…

Thousands of evacuees trickled back to neighborhoods stripped bare of houses, trees and the familiar signs of suburbia Friday as the fierce wildfires…

Israeli technology companies raised $414 million in capital from venture funds and other private investors in the third quarter, a 9 percent increase…

Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit recently declared that as Israel's passports and identity cards are easily counterfeited, he will push to replace all…

In deep underground laboratories around the globe, a high-tech race is on to spot dark matter, the invisible cosmic glue that's believed to keep…

Scientists have discovered the universe's largest known planet, a giant ball made of mostly hydrogen that is 20 times larger than Earth and circling…

Sunday, December 17The two-day Herzliya Media Conference conference will open at the Daniel Hotel, Herzliya at 8:30 a.m. The event is open to the…