Red palm weevils could arguably be called a global palm tree pandemic. Over the last decade they have migrated across the globe, laying their eggs in the trees so their larvae can munch on the tree as they grow. The…
In an effort to increase agricultural productivity and limit waste, a team of researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU)’s Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment developed a method to detect signs of stress before the plant is damaged. Plants…
ZAVIT. Although the Green Revolution brought wheat production to its highest capacity, it slashed wheat’s genetic diversity making it less resilient to climate change stressors. An Israeli initiative may be wheat’s best shot at genetic restoration. For thousands of years, the…
Antibiotic resistant bacteria are a looming super threat – heralding a time when our drugs will no longer be effective against prevalent infections. Hospitals are already coping with treatment-resistant bacterial infections. Cognizant of the threat and thinking outside the box,…
Scientific committee of the RAKIA mission selects vision technology used and modified by Bar-Ilan University to be tested during Israeli astronaut’s upcoming space trip. Prolonged exposure to microgravity conditions during space missions can impair various physiological function in general, and the visual…
The Israel-based mobile software technology company Umoove has announced the launch of MindReset, an app that will help users clear their distressed minds through very short, eye tracking based, sessions. Emotional life events leave emotional memory images which can replay subconsciously in various…
A joint study by the University of Haifa, the Centre for Genomic Regulation (Barcelona), and the Weizmann Institute have managed to sequence – for the first time – the genetic program of each cell type in stony corals. This allows…
Ever since the coronavirus became a wide-spread global pandemic, medical researchers have sought to understand how the virus impacts other medical ailments, especially neurological ones. In early 2020, New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital reported that five younger patients stricken with…
Will drones replace trucks as the primary mechanism for delivering goods? FlyTech, a company co-founded by Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) graduates Moshe Lugasi and Eliran Oren that develops cutting-edge air-related technology, recently won a government contract to participate in…
University of Haifa has embarked on an ambitious new global research project that hopes to understand how to decipher sperm whale communication, which may even enable humans to understand the dialogue between these large sea creatures. The University has joined forces…
