Soft particles are known to overlap and form stable clusters that self-assemble into periodic crystalline phases with density-independent lattice constants. We use molecular dynamics simulations in two dimensions to demonstrate that, through a judicious design of an isotropic pair potential,…
ET Solar Energy Corp. (“ET Solar”), a leading smart energy solutions provider, announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary ET Solutions AG has been chosen to provide turnkey EPC service to a 40 MWp PV power plant in Israel along with local…
L’Oréal announces the acquisition of a start-up company that develops hair fibre optical reader technology for a long-term Research program. Through this acquisition, L’Oréal reinforces its historic leadership in hair research. Based in Tel Aviv, Coloright will continue to be managed by its…
Most animal embryos contain three layers of cells that transform into every part of the body—from brains to bones to guts. Since the 19th century, biologists have been puzzling over which of these layers came first in animal evolution. We…
Two Israeli doctors specializing in infectious diseases arrived in Cote d’Ivoire on a prevention and protection mission last December. Those two Israeli experts, Dr. Ami Neuberger and Dr. Shiri Tenenbaum conducted professional trainings for over 70 local medical personnel on…
Sterile flies help farmers cut back on the use of pesticides. The mass exodus of 380 million sterile flies from Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu to Split, Croatia is meant to help reduce the population of fruit flies in that country’s citrus fruit…
SAVE THE DATE of Schneider Electric & Aster Capital – Innovation Day – ID2 – December 17th 2014. It will be held in Schneider Electric HQ in Paris. Investors, VCs, Business Partners, Corporate VCs, Schneider Electric Business Units, Partnerships and…
Pilots are trained to guard against vertigo: a sudden loss of the sense of vertical direction that renders them unable to tell “up” from “down” and sometimes even leads to crashes. Coming up out of a subway station can produce…
Security researcher Mordechai Guri with the guidance of Prof. Yuval Elovici from the cyber security labs at Ben-Gurion University in Israel presented at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALCON 2014), at Puerto Rico, a breakthrough method (“AirHopper) for leaking…