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…
Coral reefs are one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on earth. In the northern Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba corals also have exceptionally high tolerance to increasing seawater temperatures, now occurring as a consequence of global warming. This…
Using AI and computer automation, Technion researchers have developed a “conjecture generator” that creates mathematical conjectures, which are considered to be the starting point for developing mathematical theorems. They have already used it to generate a number of previously unknown…
Being constantly hungry, no matter how much you eat – that’s the daily struggle of people with genetic defects in the brain’s appetite controls, and it often ends in severe obesity. In a study published in Science on April 15, researchers at…
Biotech company SaNOtize R&D Corp., Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Surrey, UK, and Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services, UK, today announced results of clinical trials indicating that SaNOtize’s Nitric Oxide Nasal Spray (NONS) represents a safe…
What copes with heavy pressure and exists in a state of constant friction, decade after decade, yet barely gets worn down? The answer is the cartilage padding our joints – actually a marvelous system that both absorbs shocks and lubricates…
It has long been known that humans possess the ability to process information and behave both at the conscious and non-conscious levels. It is this duality that allows us to think, feel, make rational decisions and plan for events well…
More than 400 people from 28 countries participated in a unique online event organized by Israeli innovation and project management company Maof, together with the Pontifical organization Scholas Occurrentes and universities from Latin America. The statement by Scholas Occurrentes’ president,…
What if the secret to reversing aging is not an elixir of life but identifying the genes that control aging and then reversing the damage to them? That is the premise behind Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Dr. Debra Toiber’s…
