Some 600 million carnivorous spiders that were raised in BioBee labs in Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu will be flown to agricultural fields in Colombia, to be used as natural pesticides. The tiny spider mites, marketed as Bio® Persimilis, are twice the size of…
Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. a leading developer of placenta-based cell therapy products, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a collaboration withFukushima Medical University, Fukushima Global Medical Science Center. The purpose of the collaboration is to develop Pluristem’s PLX-R18 cells…
UET is an Israeli engineering and manufacturing company which leads the world in the treatment of water without chemical additives. We believe in using the natural attributes of water to fix the problems. Our company is based near Beer Sheva…
IIsrael Science Info, print magazine and website created by Esther Amar in 2010, will accompany the KKL delegation during the 21th Conference of Parties to the Framework UN Convention on Climate Change, COP 21, to be held at Paris Le Bourget November 30th to December 11th 2015. The Israeli delegation will open its booth from December 7th until December 10th in the evening. December 9th – 13:30 :“National and Regional…
Are the brains of men and women truly different? Not if you look at the overall structure, a new Tel Aviv University study says. Some features of the brain are more common in women, some more common in men, and some are…
For millions of years, plant life has been turning water and carbon dioxide (CO2) into energy. Today, many entrepreneurs are copying natural photosynthesis to find a good use for the dangerously excessive CO2 in our air. But these solutions aren’t widely…
A database featuring the names and descriptions of 5,000 Israeli companies, all in Chinese, was presented at the inaugural meeting of Tel Aviv University’s first alumni association in China, in the city of Nanjing. The Web-based tool is the brainchild…
At the COP21 climate conference opening today in Paris, 196 delegations will be workingtowards a historic agreement. For CNES, which is spearheading the space agenda of theconference, this marks the end of an odyssey started in 1992 with the launch…
The Chief Scientist at the Israeli Ministry of Economy, Avi Hasson, is conducting his first official visit to Australia this week, including visits to Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. Hasson is holding meetings aimed at bolstering bilateral scientific and technological ties…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. They two agreed on extensive bilateral cooperation in – inter alia – economic matters, technology, science, education, trade, energy, agriculture. It was agreed that a G2G meeting would be…
