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Autonomous AI-powered drone tech detects and reports fires, test launched by five-way partnership

As global warming and wildfires intensify, governmental and tech partners race to develop an AI-powered drone system that detects and reports fires within minutes.

Drone integrating VTOL & APUS 25 tech undergoes test flight.
Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO

The AI singularity may have arrived: Technion expert backs OpenAI's Sam Altman's claim

Professor Yitzhak Apeloig.

Former Technion president Professor Yitzhak Apeloig passes away aged 81

Aerial view of the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.

Technion leads Israel, Europe in AI research in new CSRanking index, ranking 21st worldwide


Technion opens 18 new nursing rooms for mothers in academics

“The welcome growth in the number of women studying at the Technion means that it is all the more important to provide the new mothers among them with suitable and respectful conditions for nursing."

 Doctoral student Keren Or Greenberg in the Ulman Building’s new nursing room

American, Israel foundations collaborate, build cancer-research center for Technion

The goals of the gift are cancer research and human health, using a multidisciplinary approach and relying on all the Technion’s capabilities and its close ties with hospitals

 American and Israel foundations collaborate to build for the Technion a major cancer-research center in Haifa

Philanthropist to Technion: Kick out students who support Hamas, or else we will stop funding

The Technion may be losing some of its donors, as a result of it not taking extreme measures against students who supported Hamas's massacre on October 7.

 Demonstrators protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in London, Britain, October 28, 2023

Technion University hacked; Cyber authority trying to assist

The cyberattack against the university has taken the form of a ransomware attack.

 A campus view of the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, on February 19, 2019.

$50 million sustainability center donated to Technion by Stewart, Lynda Resnick

With a rapidly-growing world population, the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Sustainability Center for Catalysis will tackle issues that will arise as global resources deplete.

The Computer Science Faculty building at Technion University in Haifa, Israel

Hair-loss from chemotherapy? The Technion has a new way to stop it

The Technion team members will present their idea at the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition that is being held in Paris.

 People walk through strong gusts of wind as storm Sabine is expected to hit the region in Cologne, Germany

Technion Prof. Hossam Haick awarded three research grants to combat cancers

The grants were awarded to three of Prof. Haick's consortiums, each of which studies a specific type of deadly cancer.

 Technion Prof. Hossam Haick.

Israeli scientists solve mystery: How human brain processes, stores movement

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology scientists found that computation occurs not just in the interaction among nerve cells but also within each individual neuron. 

 Three pyramidal nerve cells in the motor cortex, whose job it is to send the motor commands directly to the spinal cord. The cells are characterized by a pyramidal shape of the cell bodies and highly branched dendritic trees, a feature that allows them to perform complex parallel processing.

Technion shares academic knowledge in Wikipedia entries

Technion students are beginning to write articles for Wikipedia to add to free knowledge in science, technology, and mathematics.

The Computer Science Faculty building at Technion University in Haifa, Israel

Technion alumni join consortium of companies making roads safer

The consortium, which will tackle traffic congestion, road accidents, infrastructure and air pollution across Israel, is being joined by Israeli startups – many of which come from the Technion.

Traffic jams seen on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv.