Sci-tech

Bar-Ilan becomes Israel’s second largest research university, surpassing HUJI

Over the past seven years, Bar-Ilan has seen a 30% increase in total student enrollment, marking the highest growth rate among the country’s major research universities.

Bar Ilan University, engineering department
 Background made of various alkaline and lithium-ion batteries, positive pole visible.

ICL forms lithium iron phosphate venture for battery market

 SOFIA BOUTELLA in ‘Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire.’

‘Rebel Moon’ fails to land its own mythology - film review

Prof. Eyal Zimlichman, Sheba Medical Center's Chief Innovation Officer (left) signs MOU with Liberty Science Center in the presence of the governor of New Jersey and mayor of Jersey City.

Sheba launches digital health partnership with SciTech city in New Jersey


*When in Rome... spread better health*

HU Medical School nutritionist Prof. Elliot Berry spent a year at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Italy to help fight world malnutrition.

PROF. ELLIOT BERRY

Are these pretzels making me thirsty?

Pubs can cut the pretzels – salty snacks don’t cause thirst and increase consumption of drinks

Beer

*Accessing Einstein online*

The Princeton University Press has launched, in cooperation with the Hebrew University, The Digital Einstein Papers.

Albert Einstein

Tech talk: 2014 summary and what to expect in 2015

Facebook, Apple, Google and Intel continued to compete to acquire the hottest up-and-coming startups.

Pope uses tablet to illuminate world's biggest christmas tree in Italy

At nearly $15b, Israeli high-tech exits, IPO values break record in 2014

Throughout the year, 70 companies either got bought out or had initial public offerings.

Tel Aviv stock exchange

Is Putin building the next Noah's Ark?

The gigantic ‘ark’, set to be completed by 2018, will be 430 sq km in size, and will be built at Moscow State University.

Noah's Ark illustration

Survey: Israelis addicted to Whatsapp, don't pay for streaming movies

Israelis increasingly addicted to smartphone applications, rely on technology for entertainment, navigation, socializing.

Apple's iPhone 6 (R) and iPhone 6 Plus.

In pictures: American astronaut photographs Israel from space on Christmas

Photos taken by Barry Wilmore from the International Space Station.

Israel from space 1

Jerusalem’s Bloomfield Science Museum lights up during Hanukka

Ten inventions relating to the theme of light and Hanukka were conceived and developed by “makers” and put on display at the museum.

Adults play with a hanukkia that lights up when limbs used to make an electrical circuit.

New Worlds: How water could have flowed on Mars

Bringing plants into offices can improve well-being and make people feel happier at work.

Tap water [illustrative]