Israel’s Environment Ministry said on Wednesday it informed European regulators two years ago that local testers had been unable to test Volkswagen diesel vehicles at higher speeds because of a component placed in engines by the company. Volkswagen had instructed…
Eutelsat Communications and Facebook announced they are partnering on a new initiative that will leverage satellite technologies to get more Africans online. Under a multi-year agreement with Spacecom (Israel), the two companies will utilise the entire broadband payload on the…
The 2015 CNRS Gold Medal, France’s highest scientific distinction, has been awarded to the cell biologist Eric Karsenti, CNRS senior researcher emeritus. His career has been marked by significant breakthroughs concerning cell cycle regulation, the mechanisms that enable cells to…
The visit marks an historic political milestone as the first such visit by an Indian president. Israel views with high importance the developing relations with India, and is delighted by the occasion of the first visit of an Indian president…
The State of Israel views aliyah as a central component of our national strength. The Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption has taken upon itself, in accordance with government policies, to implement programs designed to encourage aliyah. Such programs help…
The popularity of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) systems is continuously growing.Such systems depend on unreliable Internet communication, in which chunks of dataoften get lost during transmission. Various solutions to this problem were proposed, mostof which are better suited to…
If you could jump a spaceship out past Mars and Jupiter to Saturn, pass by its rings and somehow park on the planet’s gaseous surface, how long would your day be there? This question, surprisingly, has not been precisely answered…
Giant algal blooms periodically appear over hundreds of kilometers of ocean – so large they can be observed from space. Such blooms then disappear rapidly, within a week or two. The single-celled creatures called phytoplankton that make up these blooms…
The israeli Center for absorption in science helps immigrant scientists and Israel Science Info is a media partnership of this campaign. Immigrant and returning resident scientists can obtain assistance in their absorption in research and development from the Israeli Center for Absorption…
A unique Beekeeping Resource Center has been recently established in Myanmar (Burma) within the framework of Tag’s ongoing beekeeping project implemented in cooperation with MASHAV. Tag is an international development charity that deploys unique humanitarian expertise and proven social models to create sustainable solutions for developing countries. The…
