Does your mind wander when performing monotonous, repetitive tasks? Of course! But daydreaming involves more than just beating back boredom. In fact, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a wandering mind…
The Modern Agriculture Foundation – a nonprofit organization founded in early 2014 in Israel – is launching a world-wide pioneering project in the study field of cultured meat, focused exclusively on chicken meat. The project started on January 2015 headed by…
The workshop on “Greenhouse Crop Production and Management” for participants from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand is the first joint Israeli-Thai activity following the agreement for trilateral cooperation signed between the two countries. The Memorandum of Understanding on Development Cooperation…
It’s a fact: Women are vastly underrepresented in the fields of computer science, engineering, and mathematics. But less clear are the trajectories — academic and otherwise — that lead young women toward other professions. Higher education has already opened the…
Israel Railways carried 48.5 million passengers in 2014, a 7.5% increase, compared with 45.1 million passengers in 2013, according to Israel Railways yearly summary. Israel Railways attributed its growth to better service, new routes, more frequent routes, and more stringent…
Unemployment Rate in Israel decreased to 5.60 percent in January of 2015 from 5.70 percent in December of 2014. Unemployment Rate in Israel averaged 7.75 percent from 1992 until 2015, reaching an all time high of 11.40 percent in March…
The 2015 Rappaport Prize for Excellence in Biomedical Research will be awarded by the Rappaport Family Trust to Prof. Hermona Soreq of the Hebrew University and to Dr. Eran Elinav of the Weizmann Institute of Science. The prizes will be given at the award ceremony…
The Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the Higgs boson – the “God particle” believed responsible for all the mass in the universe – took place in 2012 at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, an underground facility where accelerated sub-atomic particles zip around…
The creators of Matific, the creators of the interactive math teaching platforms, Slate Science announced that it raised $12 million in Series A funding. The round was led by “existing angel investors” according to CEO Guy Vardi, as well as existing investors. Matific…
Israel’s economy is poised to rebound further in 2015 from the effects of last summer’s Gaza war after a strong recovery in the final three months of 2014 led to the fastest quarterly growth in nearly eight years. The fourth quarter of…