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Illustrative image of a scientist in a lab (anyaivanova; iStock by Getty Images)
June 25, 2023, 11:42 am
Israel Science Foundation announces new program to support physician-researchers
$100 million MAVRI initiative funded by government and philanthropists will create positions and carve out time for doctors who also want to work in the lab
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Digital imagery of stem cell-derived embryos created by scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in June 2023. (Screen capture/Weizmann Institute of Science)
June 15, 2023, 8:48 pm
In breakthrough, Israeli scientists say they synthesized human embryos from stem cells
Weizmann Institute team uses stem cell model allowing researchers to see into ‘black box’ of critical early stage of pregnancy
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Empire State Building in New York City, November 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)
May 20, 2023, 3:04 am
Weight of New York’s buildings is causing the city to sink, study says
New research shows the metropolis is descending at a rate of 1-2 millimeters per year, worsening the risk of flooding
By ToI Staff
Roman Vishniac and his daughter Mara c. mid-1930s. (© Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley)
May 11, 2023, 10:29 pm
Daughter helps turn lens on pioneering photographer father Roman Vishniac in new film
In ‘Vishniac,’ screening at DovAviv from May 11, filmmaker Laura Bialis shows a man who documented pre-Holocaust European Jewry, then reinvented himself as a self-styled scientist
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (left), receives the Champion of Global Human Health Award from Professor Yitshak Kreiss, director general of Sheba Medical Center, Washington, April 30, 2023. (Ron Sachs/CNP)
May 1, 2023, 4:51 pm
Sheba Medical Center presents Dr. Anthony Fauci with award for COVID cooperation
In one of his final acts as director of US infectious diseases institute, Fauci signed an agreement for joint research partnership utilizing Sheba’s unique blood sample bank
By Renee Ghert-Zand
An illustration showing four modular enzyme fragments (highlighted) that Weizmann Institute’s CADENZ method can combine to generate active enzymes at unprecedented scale. (Weizmann Institute of Science)
January 12, 2023, 9:08 pm
Israeli researchers able to build enzymes ‘like Lego,’ in potential boon for drugs
Bold new technique at Weizmann Institute generates new enzymes with unprecedented scale, in possible boost to both chemical industry and development of medical treatments
By Nathan Jeffay
Pigs look up from their enclosure at the San Matias shelter for migrants in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (AP/Christian Chavez)
August 4, 2022, 12:00 am
Treating death? Scientists revive cells in dead pigs, raising hopes — and questions
Researchers say method might be used to aid organ transplantation and may open door to idea of death as treatable, though philosophical, ethical and biological concerns abound
By Daniel Lawler
Illustrative: A man barbecues during the Passover holiday in Jerusalem, April 5, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 12, 2022, 6:24 am
Exposure to sunlight may make men hungry, but not women, Israeli researchers say
In peer-reviewed study, Tel Aviv University scientists find that sunshine stimulates release of a ‘hunger hormone’ in males, boosting appetite
By Luke Tress
A rock structure scientists at University College London believe could contain the earliest fossils of life ever found. (UCL)
April 16, 2022, 9:02 pm
Scientists believe they may have found Earth’s oldest life — 4.2 billion years old
If confirmed, microfossil study would show life on Earth might have emerged a mere 300 million years after planet’s formation
By ToI Staff
Cumrun Vafa. (Screenshot/YouTube)
October 21, 2021, 9:59 pm
Iran grants scientific award to 2 US-based physicists
Mustafa Prize winner Cumrun Vafa of Harvard says ‘there is no border for science and technology and they belong to all human beings’
By AP
In a screenshot from video released by Tel Aviv University on June 30, PhD student Maayan Wizner Stern uses tweezers to hold an electronic storage unit that is two-atoms thick. (Screen capture: YouTube)
June 30, 2021, 8:11 pm
‘World’s tiniest tech’: Tel Aviv University unveils 2-atom-thick data storage
Researchers say development could improve electronic devices’ speed and energy consumption
By ToI Staff
This image made available by NASA shows the planet Venus made with data from the Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)
June 28, 2021, 7:35 pm
New study nixes prospect of life in clouds of Venus
Microbiologist says lack of water means lifeforms ‘wouldn’t stand a chance’ of surviving in the planet’s clouds, but there might be enough on Jupiter for organisms to exist
By Marcia Dunn
This August 2017 photo made available by Fermilab shows the Muon g-2 ring at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside of Chicago. (Reidar Hahn/Fermilab via AP)
April 7, 2021, 9:04 pm
‘Tantalizing’ results of 2 experiments shake up physics rulebook
Physicist says preliminary findings from recent research on muon particle could ‘take us beyond our current understanding of nature’
By Seth Borenstein
Sharon Brown (Courtesy)
March 19, 2021, 1:26 am
Trailblazing forensics expert who decrypted Ilan Ramon diary retires from force
British-born Sharon Brown wraps up 31-year career with Israel Police ranging from cracking routine white-collar crime forgeries to deciphering damaged docs of national importance
By Renee Ghert-Zand
TAU-SAT1, the nanosatellite developed by Tel Aviv University. (Tel Aviv University)
February 21, 2021, 5:44 pm
Israeli-made nanosatellite released into Earth orbit
Astronauts aboard International Space Station launch Tel Aviv University’s TAU-SAT1, which will measure cosmic radiation around Earth
By ToI Staff
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