BGUSAT, Israeli academia’s first nanosatellite, will be launched into space on February 15, 2017 to conduct BGU scientific missions. It is the result of a five year joint project between BGU, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space. The…
MercuRemoval, developer of gas treatment solutions, today announced successful results of joint trial with Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) in which its innovative technology demonstrated dramatically high efficiency in removing mercury from flue gas emission, with mercury absorption and removal rate…
Amid the recent, growing opposition to tightly caged hens, another practice in the poultry industry has drawn less notice: All male chicks born at egg farm hatcheries are slaughtered the day they hatch. This is typically done by shredding them alive, in what…
A junior high school class from Maale Adumim (Judea and Samaria, Israel), mentored by Prof. Itzhak Mizrahi, from Ben Gurion University of the Negev, won the national Space Lab Competition on Monday. The competition sends science experiments into space through the…
CNES and IAF President Jean-Yves Le Gall was at the 12th Ilan Ramon Conference in Herzliya, Israel, on Sunday 29 and Monday 30 January, on the theme “Bringing Space Down To Earth”. He took this opportunity to laud the value…
How much does a steak really cost? Or chicken nuggets; or a plate of hummus? New research by Prof. Ron Milo and Alon Shepon of the Plant and Environmental Sciences Department, together with Prof. Gideon Eshel of Bard College, New York, took…
An international research team studying the HIV virus in Africa concluded that male circumcision significantly curbs the spread of all its variants. The six researchers of a study titled “Male Circumcision and the Epidemic Emergence of HIV-2 in West Africa”…
he $10 billion Red Sea-Dead Sea project will see the joining of two oceans in the Middle East to transport millions of cubic metres of seawater. It took a miracle for Moses to part the waters of the Red Sea. But…
People who tend to daydream, get absorbed in reading a book or watching a movie to the exclusion of their surroundings are those who will feel more tired as a result of sleep deprivation and will have a harder time…
Media tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman has pledged $100 million for the creation of a program to foster US-Israel collaboration in the sciences, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program was announced Monday at an event attended by New York Governor Andrew…
