The eminent British scientist Stephen Hawking made predictions, 42 years ago, about elusive radiation emanating from black holes. Known as Hawking radiation, this phenomenon is too weak to observe with current techniques, and remained a “holy grail” for the fields…
Sami Shamoon School of Engineering (SCE): develop southern Israel and address the shortage of engineers
With companies like Amazon, Uber and more entering into the “instant delivery” space, standard mail and delivery services no longer make the cut. From ordering flowers for your anniversary five minutes before your significant other walks through the door to…
The research group of Technion Prof. Erez Hasman has developed technology for compressing dozens of lenses on a nanometric surface. The study, published in Science magazine, paves the way for creating a completely new type of optical elements with potential…
Age-associated motor and cognitive deficits increase the risk of falls, a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Because of the significant ramifications of falls, many interventions have been proposed, but few have aimed to prevent falls via an integrated approach…
Sea Watch is a new phone app specially developed by SPNI to enable members of the public to take a direct part in improving the ecological state of the Mediterranean Sea by sending us real-time reports on a variety of maritime environmental…
The ejection of internal organs, i.e., evisceration, is a well-known phenomenon in sea-cucumbers. We report the ability of a member of the Chordate phyla, the tropical ascidian Polycarpa mytiligera, to eviscerate and regenerate its gut within 12 days, and to rebuild…
One evening sixteen years ago, two young Weizmann Institute scientists – Dr. Daniel Lellouch and the future president of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Prof. Daniel Zajfman – borrowed a telescope from what was then youth activities unit at the…
Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) have decoded a central signal cascade associated with epileptic seizures. If the researchers blocked a central switch in epileptic mice, the frequency and severity of the seizures…
Polyploidy is commonly thought to be associated with the domestication process because of its concurrence with agriculturally favourable traits and because it is widespread among the major plant crops1,2,3,4. Furthermore, the genetic consequences of polyploidy5,6,7 might have increased the adaptive plasticity…
