Comprehensive coverage

February 2013

SpaceIL team members: Kafir Demari, Yonatan Weintraub, Sandy Hefetz and Chairman Yanki Margalit, together with Bezeq Deputy CEO Ran Goraon

Yanki Margalit, chairman of SpaceIL "The collaboration with Bezeq will help us meet the tremendous technological challenge we face and inspire the younger generation"

  • 3 תגובות
SpaceIL - the jump phase to a distance of 500 m after the first landing. The jump will be made with the last drops of fuel, to a height of 220 meters. During the jump, a 500 meter long optical fiber will be deployed. PR photo

Revealing initial details about the journey to the moon and SpaceIL's unique technologies

  • 10 תגובות
Artist's impression of the Oort cloud and the Kuiper belt. Image: NASA

A comet that will pass next month may be visible to the naked eye

  • 6 תגובות
Participants of the smart transportation conference held at Afka College, February 7, 2012. Public relations photo,

Go to the ant, transport expert, see its ways and be wise. Impressions from the smart transportation conference at Afka College

  • 3 תגובות
In the center of the image taken by Curiosity, you see a hole in the rock known as "John Klein" where the vehicle performed the first drilling on Mars. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Curiosity drilled for the first time in hard Madymai rock

  • 3 תגובות
Prof. Ehud Shapira. Photo: Weizmann Institute

Logic gates, biological computers

  • 6 תגובות
Dead Sea hotels, the morning of March 16, 2012. Photo by Avi Blizovsky (from the balcony of a room at the Meridian Hotel)

The opinions of the Dead Sea - an attempt to offer a solution

  • 3 תגובות
RNA-reprogrammed stem cells (RiSP) grow long extensions characteristic of neurons after being transferred to a new growth surface

Induced stem cells extracted from the patient's skin could restore brain cells damaged by multiple sclerosis

  • 6 תגובות
The skeletal remains of King Richard III. PR photo: University of Leicester.

The remains of King Richard III buried under a car park in the city of Leicester have been identified

  • One response
Screenshot from the movie "Train from Tel Aviv to Eilat"

Train to Eilat - a journey between alternatives

  • 43 תגובות
supernova From Wikipedia

Small explosion, big explosion

  • 2 תגובות
Dr. Kira Radinsky. Photo: Technion Spokesperson

Black belt, pink future

  • 14 תגובות
An artist's impression of a rocky planet orbiting a red giant. Iorf David Aguilar, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

We may be surrounded by millions of Earth-like planets, perhaps even in our backyard

  • 23 תגובות
Electron microscope image: Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm developed on a catheter

Israeli-Singaporean cooperation resulted in the development of an innovative structure that has antibacterial activity and inhibits the development of bacterial biofilms

  • One response
Marie Leakey. From talkorigins

Mary Leakey in the footsteps of the ancient man - a hundred years since her birth

  • 3 תגובות
A street in an unknown village in Angola, where a cholera epidemic broke out in 2006 and 2007. Researchers from the Technion and Microsoft have developed software that can predict outbreaks. Photo: Paulo César Santos Via Wikimedia Commons.

Research at the Technion and Microsoft: the computer will reveal fortunes

  • 4 תגובות
The free fall position of leaf aphids. The aphids bring the tentacles up and forward and the hind legs back and up to create an aerodynamically stable position that ensures a proper landing. Illustration Nick W. Sloff

Not only cats fall on their feet

  • No comments
Excerpt from the BBC's reconstruction of the Stanford Prison Experiment

The voice of the skeptic - shock and awe / Michael Shermer

  • 7 תגובות
Prof. Yoram Billo. Photo: The Hebrew University

Winner of the Israel Prize in the field of sociology and anthropology research 2013: Prof. Yoram Billo

  • 2 תגובות
IATI-Biomed 2013 conference logo

The IATI Biomed conference will be held this year in a special format that will allow participants to vote in advance and influence the list of speakers

  • No comments
Folds of graphene. Image: Duke University

Controlled folding of graphene to create artificial muscle

  • No comments
Tal Oron-Gilad (photographer: Danny Machlis, Ben-Gurion University)

Researchers have found that the combination of data from unmanned vehicles and drones on one video screen helps with orientation and identification

  • No comments
Prof. Eva Iloz. Photo: The Hebrew University

Two female researchers from the Hebrew University won a research grant of 250,000 euros each from the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

  • 3 תגובות
Minister of Education Gideon Sa'ar and Chairman of the Technical University Prof. Manuel Trachtenberg at a press conference on the occasion of the announcement of the program for centers of excellence. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The second wave of the centers of excellence (I-CORE) is underway: the steering committee decided on the establishment of 11 additional centers of excellence

  • One response
Prof. Nadir Arber, photo: Tel Aviv Medical Center

A study conducted at the Cancer Prevention Center at the Tel Aviv Medical Center found: 2.4% of 1,000 healthy subjects were found to have cancer

  • 8 תגובות
Science website logo
SEARCH