August 31, 2026

Prof. Ada Yonath, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry, passes away at age 87

Prof. Ada Yonath, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry, passes away at age 87

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Prof. Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute, who deciphered the structure of the ribosome and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009, passed away on August 31, 2026. Over decades of research, she persisted on questions that were considered almost unanswerable.
From the laboratory to industry: The opportunity to integrate doctoral students into Israeli high-tech

From the laboratory to industry: The opportunity to integrate doctoral students into Israeli high-tech

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The global race in artificial intelligence and deep technologies is increasing the demand for scientific depth, but many researchers complete their training without experience in product development and without the network of connections that graduates of technological units enjoy. Connection
The Falcon Heavy launcher with the Roman Space Telescope passes in front of the sun during launch

Roman has launched: NASA expects it to reveal about 100 thousand planets

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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched on its way to L2. NASA estimates that its surveys could reveal about 100 transiting planets, along with more than a thousand worlds through tiny gravitational lensing.
Simulation of a star being torn apart by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole and a stream of material drawn from it

A star's rapid rotation may explain why flares near a black hole fade away

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Hydrodynamic simulations suggest that a star that was spinning rapidly before being captured in orbit around a supermassive black hole loses less material with each pass, so the repeated flares become weaker. The same scenario may also explain
A cross-section of the Martian interior showing a warmer mantle beneath the southern plateaus and a colder mantle in the north.

Mars is also divided from the inside: the mantle in the south is hundreds of degrees hotter than the north

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Analysis of 16 years of measurements from three orbiters has revealed a difference of about 200–400 degrees Celsius between the mantle of Mars' southern and northern hemispheres. The finding may explain differences in surface magnetism
The intestinal lining remembers inflammation: A mechanism uncovered at the Weizmann Institute may explain the transition to chronic disease

The intestinal lining remembers inflammation: A mechanism uncovered at the Weizmann Institute may explain the transition to chronic disease

A study conducted primarily in mice found that acute inflammation can leave long-lasting changes in the intercellular matrix, altering the fate of stem cells in the intestine. Findings from seven biopsies of ulcerative colitis patients support the link
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