Technology & Applications

(l-r) Dr. Alexander Vaskevich, Prof. Israel Rubinstein and Ph.D. student Tali Sehayek. Tube tales

Tubes with a Twist

01.05.2004

Nanoscience, Materials Science, Yeda Technology Transfer

Move over carbon. These new nanotubes are made of gold, silver and other metals

Prof. Uzy Smilansky. Piecing the puzzle

Archaeology Goes Hi-Tech

01.05.2004

Math & Computer Science, Scientific Archaeology, Technology & Applications

Institute physicists are digging up ancient secrets

Introduction

Introduction

01.05.2004

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Organic Chemistry, Benefiting Humanity

Recent data show that roughly 220 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes. In 2005, an estimated 1.1 million people died from diabetes and the...

Salty Scans

Salty Scans

15.04.2004

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

Kidney disease may affect as many as one in twelve people, and causes millions of deaths each year. Currently, the diagnosis of kidney function...

Wet Scans

Wet Scans

15.04.2004

Space & Physics, Lasers & Optics, Materials Science, Yeda Technology Transfer

The scanning electron microscope (SEM) has been a basic research tool for fifty years, and for those fifty years, scientists have been looking for...

An electric current can flow forever in superconductors because nothing in them wears it down

Electricity's Free Ride

01.11.2003

Materials Science, Biotechnology

An electric current can flow forever in superconductors because nothing in them wears it down

Clockwise: Prof. Ehud Shapiro, Prof. Zvi Livneh, Dr. Tamar Paz-Elizur, Ph. D. student Yaakov Benenson and Dr. Rivka Adar. Guinness World Record

DNA Fuels Tiny Computing Machine

01.05.2003

Biochemistry, Math & Computer Science, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Biotechnology

DNA is not only the "software" of the world's smallest computing device, it's also the fuel

Kenyan farmer in an experimental corn field

Uprooting Hunger in Africa

01.10.2002

Plants and Agriculture, Biotechnology

A parasite-fighting technique triples corn harvests on experimental plots

illustration: Trillion Computers in one drop

A Trillion Computers in One Drop

01.05.2002

Biochemistry, Genetics, Chemistry, Math & Computer Science, Encryption/Decryption, Biotechnology

Trillions of microscopic biological computers vigilantly patrolling your body in search of disease? Welcome to the brave new world of computer...

Dr. Michal Irani

A Visual Window into Space and Time

01.01.2002

Computer Vision, Mathematics, Technology & Applications

Whether spellbinding or tedious, a video film seems like a simple sequence of pictures. Yet it encompasses often-overlooked spatial and temporal...

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Multiple Proteins Viewed as Never Before

Getting Cancer to Unmask Itself

They’d Rather Die: The Lesson That Male Roundworms Refuse to Learn

Dr. Omer Kneller (left) and Chen Mor direct a laser beam before it enters the experimental setup. The experiment required a powerful laser beam that could produce exceptionally short, attosecond light pulses. Photo: Noa Yaffe

Matter at the Crossroads

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Getting Cancer to Unmask Itself

New Immune Mechanism Revealed in the Cellular Trash

A Broken Heart: Two Types of Scars, Two Paths to Healing