Science

High Court: Israeli gov't must explain why it funds haredi schools without core studies

The order, issued in a petition filed by Hiddush, demands that the Education and Finance ministries explain why state funding is not conditioned on the teaching of core-curriculum subjects.

 HAREDI YESHIVA students
(From L-R) Head of the National Artificial Intelligence Directorate, Brig.-Gen. (res.) Erez Askal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Azerbaijan's Digital Development and Transport Minister Rashad Nabiyev, February 3, 2026.

Israel, Azerbaijan sign declaration of cooperation on AI as ties deepen

Technion–Israel Institute of Technology

Cell-based implant offers new hope for diabetes management, Technion study shows

PHD STUDENT Yulia Melnik-Kesler.

Early warning system for undrinkable wine glows in the dark


Advanced fusion control breakthrough brings clean, reliable energy closer to reality

Research done by nT-Tao and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev introduces a new “nonlinear controller” that keeps power flowing smoothly even as the plasma inside the reactor changes rapidly.

 Technicians use a service system lift to access the target chamber interior for inspection and maintenance at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a laser-based inertial confinement fusion research device, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory federal research facility in Livermore, California

MIT nuclear scientist Nuno Loureiro killed inside Brookline home

Nuno Loureiro, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was found shot multiple times at his Massachusetts home, with authorities saying the investigation is ongoing.

People passing through MIT's campus stop to take pictures of a replica of the Wright Brothers Flyer which was placed on top of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Great Dome by unknown pranksters, December 17, 2003 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Study finds insect-borne bacteria turning harmless reed leafhopper into major agricultural pest

A tiny insect is wreaking havoc on Europe’s sugar beet industry, not by biting plants, but by spreading bacteria that rob crops of their value.

A Green Leaf-hopper, Cicadella viridis, resting on a plant stem.

How does CAR-T cancer treatment work? - explainer

A rigorous medical journey ends in a breakthrough, in the form of CAR-T therapy, achieving a rare, hard-won cancer-free result.

CAR-T causes less collateral damage to healthy cells than standard chemo.

Oldest-known fire-making found in Britain, pushing Neanderthal mastery back 415,000 years

"We think humans brought pyrite to the site with the intention of making fire. And this has huge implications, pushing back the earliest fire-making," said archaeologist Nick Ashton.

Neanderthals ate maggots from rotting meat, new research finds. Illustration.

Driving innovation at the frontiers of genomic medicine

Rambam Health Care Campus to sponsor the Beutler Symposium.

AERIAL VIEW of the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa. (Totem Imaging and Animation Ltd.)

Neanderthals were selectively targeted for cannibalism in Ice Age Europe, study reveals - study

Research focused on human remains found at the Troisième caverne of Goyet, a cave site in present-day Belgium that contains one of the largest known assemblages of Neanderthal bones in northern EU.

 Neanderthal communities in prehistoric Europe. How were they linked? (Illustrative)

Israeli scientists develop method to accelerate carbon capture, reducing industrial emissions

“The goal was to understand what’s really happening when carbonate rocks encounter high levels of carbon dioxide,” the study’s lead researcher explains.

Israeli scientists make carbon capture faster and practical

New Israeli, US research shows that learning doesn't have to slow down because of human aging

The findings suggest that older adults can enhance memory, maintain emotional well-being, and gain a renewed sense of purpose by engaging in education that respects their life experience.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

'Medusa,' possible 'dinosaur mummy' discovered in Badlands, transferred for further research

The dinosaur, the fossil of an Edmontosaurus, was about 66 million years old.

Dinosaur, edmontosaurus close up with open mouth. Ukraine, Khmelnitsky, October 2021.