Hosted by Israel Space Agency, International Astronautical Congress featured leading space agency directors and famed moonwalker Buzz Aldrin. Despite heightened security tensions in Jerusalem, a crowd of over 2,000 people from 58 nations gathered for the 66th Annual International Astronautical…
Using an innovative brain mapping technique, the Hadassah Medical Organization’s neuropsychiatry specialists have identified a cognitive process that has important implications for understanding the disorientation experienced by Alzheimer’s patients. Using high-resolution functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), the neuroscientists, led by…
Clinical trials with a Hadassah-developed technology to treat fatty liver disease are moving forward in 25 medical centers, in the United States and Australia. Fatty liver disease, in its severe form–called non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)–can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer…
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…
