Watergen’s machines that produce drinking water from atmospheric humidity could help rid Monaco of plastic water bottles, says company president. Monaco’s Prince Albert II installed a made-in-Israel Watergen machine in his palace to produce clean drinking water from ambient air. The prince,…
This week, EWP applied for a new PCT (international patent) and a new Israeli Patent for an integrated wave and solar system and commenced initial testing for the combined solution. The idea for the combined solution was conceived from significant…
A leader in compostable packaging solutions offering a sustainable alternative to conventional plastic is expanding sales and operations globally. TIPA, a leading developer and provider of fully compostable flexible packaging solutions, has announced today that it has secured $25M in…
Though the brain is a very slow machine, its capabilities exceed typical state-of-the-art, ultrafast artificial intelligence algorithms; hence, a revolution in deep learning must emerge, as experimentally and theoretically demonstrated by Bar-Ilan University physicists. Machine learning, introduced 70 years ago,…
The Woman Who Started A Viticulture Revolution In Israel Michal Akerman is an Israeli agronomist and viticulturalist who had worked several harvests in vineyards around the world before she headed off to university many years ago. Since her family is…
Mankai, a high-protein aquatic plant strain of duckweed, has significant potential as a superfood by providing glycemic control needed after carbohydrate consumption, a team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has determined. Hila Zelicha, a registered dietician…
Ecologist Dr. Assaf Shwartz of the Technion leads a multi-national team that investigates the effect of invasive species in Israel and Europe: “It is important to prevent the release of non-native species in nature” Non-native parrots can cause substantial agricultural damage…
Eco Wave Power finished the design and engineering of its Jaffa Port project expansion and started procurement of parts for the construction of the plant. The project (which is co-funded by the Israeli Energy Ministry) is planned to include the construction…
In Israel, BGU and Hebrew U. researchers through two experiments contributed to the debunking of the theory that babies only develop the ability to empathize after one year. “The findings indicate that even during a baby’s first year, the infant…
The Zika virus has affected over 60 million people, mostly in South America. It has potentially devastating consequences for pregnant women and their unborn children, many of whom are born with severe microcephaly and other developmental and neurological abnormalities. There…
