Each year, many thousands of people lose their lives in earthquakes, millions lose their homes, and countries around the world incur billions of dollars in damages. (The 2010 earthquake in Haiti alone is estimated to have taken approximately 300,000 lives.) Being able to predict when earthquakes are about to happen could significantly help reduce the…
Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said they identified a previously…
Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that, through cellular respiration…
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a “disrupted” state in some…
On Feb. 22, 2019, the Israeli SpaceIL lunar lander Beresheet (named after the first book of the Torah) was launched…
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…
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,…
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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