Sci-tech

Bar-Ilan becomes Israel’s second largest research university, surpassing HUJI

Over the past seven years, Bar-Ilan has seen a 30% increase in total student enrollment, marking the highest growth rate among the country’s major research universities.

Bar Ilan University, engineering department
 Background made of various alkaline and lithium-ion batteries, positive pole visible.

ICL forms lithium iron phosphate venture for battery market

 SOFIA BOUTELLA in ‘Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire.’

‘Rebel Moon’ fails to land its own mythology - film review

Prof. Eyal Zimlichman, Sheba Medical Center's Chief Innovation Officer (left) signs MOU with Liberty Science Center in the presence of the governor of New Jersey and mayor of Jersey City.

Sheba launches digital health partnership with SciTech city in New Jersey


Planting seeds for peace and health

A three-year EU project to identify natural compounds in Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Spain and Greece that could be turned into beneficial drugs was a success.

DR. DAN BOLOTIN as a young researcher in South America with a local shaman.

Job fair aims to help emigrant scientists come home

The attendees registered so far are currently living in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, Switzerland and Sweden.

Prof. Ruth Arnon with would-be returnees from the Israel Academy of Sciences's 2013 employment fair and conference for scientists, physicians and engineers

Watch out! You are being followed in the supermarket

Technion engineers Omri Elmalech and Ohad Rusnak build obedient robotic cart.

 (L to R) Ohad Rusnak and Omri Elmalech with their tracking shopping cart

Israeli 9th graders conduct ground-breaking experiment in space

The 14-year-old pupils -- all girls -- wanted to know how low gravity conditions in space influence the development of brine shrimp eggs compared to the Earth environment.

9th grade girls who made an experiement in space

Peri: Must minimize gaps in society through use of technology

Science Minister emphasizes importance of the Lehava project, a program working to promote science and technology amongst needy populations in the periphery.

Science and Technology Minister Yaakov Peri addressing Lehava project center heads at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv on Monday

Tech Talk: The best keyboard apps available for smartphones

The way we read and write has changed dramatically since the Internet took over our lives.

keyboard app available for smartphones

Hookah smokers are inhaling benzene

High levels of benzene, a chemical in crude oil and gasoline, are present in hookah smokers and nonsmokers after they attend social events where the water pipes are used, a new report says.

hookah

Genome of lowly centipede sequenced, adding a piece to puzzle of how life started on Earth

A Hebrew University researcher was part of the international team that did the study.

centipede

New Worlds: The tone of sign language

Researchers found that each sign language has its own “playback.”

Elderly couple (illustrative)