“Earth is trembles… not me!”. It is the tragicomic title of the conference organized by the French Friends of the Tel Aviv University, Sunday February the 28th – 19:00. This outstanding conference that will keep the audience in suspense will be given…
The Israeli Agency for International Development Cooperation (MASHAV) and the German Technical Cooperation (GIZ) ,will on Thursday sign a Memorandum of Understanding to kickstart the second phase of Cameroon’s development strategy of the rural sector. The ceremony will take place at…
A team of physicists led by Caltech’s David Hsieh has discovered an unusual form of matter—not a conventional metal, insulator, or magnet, for example, but something entirely different. This phase, characterized by an unusual ordering of electrons, offers possibilities for…
First-of-its-kind sweet basil cultivar is resistant to downy mildew, a severe global epidemic affecting basil plants. Sweet basil, a favorite culinary herb under attack from a global epidemic. Italy without tomatoes, Ireland without potatoes and the United States without filter…
If only we could keep our bodies young, healthy and energetic, even as we attain the wisdom of our years. New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests this dream could be at least partly obtainable in the future. The…
While smartphone cameras have come on in leaps and bounds in the last few years; zooming capabilities are still lagging behind those of a solid compact camera.While some phone manufacturers are toying with the idea of including optical zoom lenses…
With up to 300 people missing following the Jan. 25 disaster, Israeli search-and-rescue, medical, engineering and firefighting experts came to help. Israel sent a military humanitarian rescue team to southeastern Brazil on January 27 following last Friday’s collapse of a…
Tuesday 29 January in Tel Aviv, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall was at the 14th Ilan Ramon Conference to take part in a Q&A panel session on NewSpace moderated by Jan Wörner, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA).…
Though humans differ widely in their congenital abilities, a newly-discovered brain learning mechanism has led researchers to reveal an origin of the identical spectrum of strong and weak links that compose all brains. The brain is a complex network containing…
Hadassah Medical Organization researchers, using next generation sequencing (NGS), have identified a highly accurate RNA panel that distinguishes thyroid cancer from benign nodules. The study, authored by Prof. Haggi Mazeh, Chief of Surgery at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus, and Hadassah…
