Chemistry

The technique was developed by a team from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Enceladus has an ice-covered water ocean that erupts into space, forming a plume. The researchers analyzed samples as the plumes erupted from cracks in the icy surface. 

The Alhambra, now a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) world heritage site, is a fortress and palace built in the 13th century under the Islamic rule of Spain.

The new research could open the door to revolutionary breakthroughs in faster and more energy efficient technologies.

Prof. Sagiv secured this year’s Nanoscience prize for his team's pioneering work on self-assembling monolayers on solid substrates within the field of nanochemistry.

DNA is represented by groups of letters, so Ben Gurion University biochemist Dr. Barak Akabayov and his team aimed to learn new information by studying the letter sequences linguistically.

The findings pave the way for future research on growing one-dimensional inorganic complexes, and the results have numerous possible applications.

In keeping with tradition, chemistry is the third prize announced every year and follows those for medicine and physics earlier this week.

Israel has participated in the Olympiads since 2006. The Olympiads this year were run by Turkey, but took place over Zoom due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Virginia Tech Prof. William Ducker managed to produce a special coating designed to deactivate coronavirus existing in droplets covering everyday objects.