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.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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

The project demonstrates significant step forward for ICL's battery materials portfolio, this time into Europe.

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

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

Netflix’s Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire,” attempts to create a ready-made Star Wars-like series with its own internal mythology and iconography.

|ByMARK OLSEN
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

Israel’s largest hospital is partnering with Liberty Science Center (LSC) to develop a cutting-edge high-tech hospital simulation space designed to highlight the future of digital health.

|ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN

From a Gaza checkpoint to the Diamond Exchange, biometric start-up seeks to ease security concerns

FST Biometrics sees a wide variety of uses for its technology, which seeks to change means of identification.

JULY 15, 2015ByNIV ELIS
Erez crossing

Hi-tech buzz: Technion computer students build a bartender robot

“It knows how to mix drinks from among a built-in list and prepare cocktails it created by itself."

JUNE 29, 2015ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Technion computer students build a barman robot.

Founders of Israeli air pollution app BreezoMeter attend White House

Israelis among 72 start-ups worldwide invited to Emerging Global Entrepreneurship event.

MAY 12, 2015BySHARON UDASIN
BreezoMeter team

In Israel, Indian minister calls for building joint industrial park

Israel and India have potential for improved ties that would take advantage of Israel's tech and brains and India's production capacity and skilled labor, says Devendra Fadnavis.

APRIL 28, 2015ByNIV ELIS
Devendra Fadnavis

Science, Technology and Space Ministry names Arab chemical engineer its deputy chief scientist

A few years ago, the ministry’s deputy chief scientist was an Israeli Arab from the North.

MARCH 24, 2015ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
NASA's Dawn spacecraft heads toward the dwarf planet Ceres as seen in this undated artist's conception

Intellectual Drought

MARCH 23, 2015ByNASEEM KHAN
The Jerusalem Post

Einstein’s Relativity confirmed

Israeli, French and Italian scientists find ‘space-time foam’ not slowing photons from distant gamma-ray burst.

MARCH 18, 2015ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
‘WHEN WE began our analysis, we didn’t expect to obtain such a precise measurement,’ says Prof. Tsvi Piran of the Hebrew University’s Racah Institute of Physics

Jewish app prepares for Apple Watch debut

Apple launched its long awaited Apple Watch on Tuesday.

MARCH 10, 2015ByNIV ELIS
Apple watches are displayed following an Apple event in San Francisco, California March 9, 2015.

Twelve teenage ‘geniuses’ take top three prizes in Intel-Israel Young Scientists Competition

A total of 59 projects reached the Jerusalem finals, with 26 of them in the field of technology and computer science.

MARCH 10, 2015ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Intel-Israel Young Scientists Competition, 2015

Akron, Ohio to partner with Israeli wastewater treatment firms

For three years, the Advanced Waste Water Treatment Demonstration Project will bring cutting edge water technologies developed by Israeli academics.

MARCH 4, 2015BySHARON UDASIN
Sewer pipes