Beresheet 2: Israel’s Second Attempt to Land on the Moon Scheduled for 2024
On Feb. 22, 2019, the Israeli SpaceIL lunar lander Beresheet (named after the first book of the Torah) was launched…
Eytan Stibbe: Second Israeli Astronaut in Space Will Bring 44 Israeli Experiments to the ISS
Eytan Stibbe (pronounced STEE-buh) is a 63-year-old former Israeli fighter pilot, fighter ace, businessman, and future private astronaut. Stibbe will be blasting off into space next October, as part of history’s first all-civilian mission. (He’ll be Israel’s second astronaut in space after the late Ilan Ramon, who perished in the 2003 shuttle Columbia disaster.) Sibbe…
Weitzman Institute Scientists Grow 1,000 Mouse Embryos in Artificial Wombs
In what is being called “a breakthrough” and “a monumental achievement,” a team of scientists at the Weitzman Institute of Science — led by Dr. Jacob Hanna — has successfully grown more than 1,000 mouse embryos in artificial wombs. The project to create the artificial wombs has been in the works for seven years. Obviously,…
Liran Carmel: For the First Time, Unlocking What Our Ancient Denisovan Relatives Looked Like
The Denisovans, now extinct, were a species or subspecies of archaic humans during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic periods. Hebrew University research scientist Liran Carmel and his colleague David Gokhman (among others on the team) have, for the first time, given the world an idea of the Denosivans’ probable appearance. They used genetic data from…
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