STEM News

Saturday, June 25, 2022

Advice from Israel’s first female university president, Prof. Rivka Carmi

Thursday, June 23, 2022

Research by Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science finds that in making friends, people often ‘click’ with those who smell similar, before establishing other common interests

Monday, June 20, 2022

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel have found that feeling young can increase the chances of successful rehabilitation from medical conditions, even in old age. Their study was recently published in the journal Gerontology.

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Scientists from Tel Aviv University use CRISPR to modify body’s disease-fighting type B white blood cells, in what may become a treatment for the illness

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

A team of Israeli scientists say they have uncovered traces of fire dating back at least 800,000 years.

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

This new creation will hopefully prove useful for children born with microtia, a condition that results in underdeveloped, small or malformed ears at birth.

Monday, June 13, 2022

The first insect radar of its kind in Israel offers a chance to gauge the number of insects in Israel’s skies, something that could not previously be calculated.

Saturday, June 11, 2022

How does our brain process and store movement? Technion scientists find the answer, with implications for multiple diseases as well as machine learning

Thursday, June 9, 2022

Study at Bar-Ilan University found that different species of bacteria can self-sustain in the same environment, depending on the strength of their interactions.

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Mosquitoes are responsible for roughly 2.7 million deaths each year, according to the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP). More than being a nuisance, the trillions of mosquitoes on Earth can transmit deadly diseases throughout the global population.

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Israeli scientists led by a research group at Ben-Gurion University have developed an innovative platform to
create sperm in a laboratory through a microfluidic system, which contains hundreds of microchannels for fluids to pass through.

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Covering over 10,000 species, study involving Israeli researchers is the most comprehensive of its kind to date; half of all turtles and crocodiles in danger of dying out

Saturday, June 4, 2022

Tel Aviv University study suggests existing experimental drug may lead to effective treatments for some cases of autism, schizophrenia and neurodegenerative diseases

Thursday, June 2, 2022

It may not be love at first sight, but it can be pretty close, according to research published in the journal Scientific Reports.