Installing the satellite dish that will receive the data transmitted from BGUSAT and send it to the ground station at BGU's EPIF. Aviran Sadon, a doctoral student who was instrumental in the BGUSAT process, is pictured gesturing in this photo from March 2016.

BGUSAT: Israeli Academia’s First Nanosatellite for Research Purposes Will Open Up New Frontiers of Knowledge

BGUSAT, Israeli academia’s first nanosatellite, will be launched into space on February 15, 2017 to conduct BGU scientific missions. It is the result of a...

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Washington Post: New israeli technique may prevent the gruesome deaths of billions of male chicks

Amid the recent, growing opposition to tightly caged hens, another practice in the poultry industry has drawn less notice: All male chicks born at egg farm...

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Junior High School Student Project Mentored by Prof. Itzik Mizrahi (BGU) Wins the Space Lab Contest

A junior high school class from Maale Adumim (Judea and Samaria, Israel), mentored by Prof. Itzhak Mizrahi, from Ben Gurion University of the Negev,...

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Jean-Yves Le Gall, Président du CNES

France-Israel space cooperation CNES at the 12th Ilan Ramon Conference “Bringing Space Down To Earth”

CNES and IAF President Jean-Yves Le Gall was at the 12th Ilan Ramon Conference in Herzliya, Israel, on Sunday 29 and Monday 30 January,...

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Le doctorant Amir Saraf et le Dr Almog

Tel Aviv University: BRIXO Brings Building LEGO Blocks To Life Using IoT Technology

Legos and kids go together like peanut butter and jelly. But while the favorite spreads haven’t changed all that much over time, the building blocks children play...

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A Multiple-Impact Origin for the Moon

The formation of the Moon has remained something of a puzzle. A leading theory proposes a cataclysmic impact involving a Mars-sized object and a...

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Photo CERN/Brice, Maximilien

Ben Gurion University: Observation of the 1S–2S transition in trapped antihydrogen

PhD student Snir Cohen of Ben Gurion University of the Negev is associated to this research. The spectrum of the hydrogen atom has played...

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Artist's impression of the newly-discovered planet, Proxima Centauri b. credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Weizmann (Israël): Proxima Centauri, Earth-Mass Planet Right Next Door. Video

An international team announced today that a planet with a mass similar to that of Earth has been observed orbiting the star Proxima Centauri...

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