Fluid-filled structures in the placenta. (photo from wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il) The fetus in the womb totally depends on the blood bond with the mother. Spotting irregularities in the flow across the placenta could therefore be crucial for detecting fetal distress, but currently no reliable…
Who would have thought a solution to ice stickiness would come from a semi-tropical country like Israel? Prof. Hanna Dodiuk heads up the department of polymers and plastics engineering at Shenkar College in Ramat Gan. She specializes in adhesion and…
Israel Defence Forces soldiers debrief during the Israel-Hamas conflict. New Israel Fund of Canada’s president Joan Garson discussed the painful war of this past summer and the ongoing responsibility of liberal Zionists in Canada to push for Israel to be…
Measuring the response to novelty: A mouse repeatedly touches the object and pulls away (nose and whisker contacts are color-coded; d is the distance of the snout from the object). (photo from wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il) Put a young child in a new…
Temple Mount Western Wall on Shabbat. (photo by David Shankbone via en.wikipedia.org) Robin and Jon Sirkin prepared to celebrate their son Eitan’s bar mitzvah in Jerusalem last weekend. There was a Dr. Who theme and an ice-cream bar planned for the…
The concept of SoftWheel was initially imagined as an improvement for wheelchairs, but its potential uses are numerous. (photo from SoftWheel) While new patents and inventions appear all the time, they don’t often aim at a mainstay, like the common wheel, which…
A small black hole gains mass. Dense cold gas (green) flows toward the centre of a stellar cluster (red cross in blue circle) with stars (yellow); the erratic path of the black hole through the gas (black line) is randomized…
An artists’s rendering of the new facility now under construction in Bnei Brak. (photo from Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Centre) Chavi (not her real name) awkwardly positions herself on the chair in the group therapy room. The doctors gave her parents no choice,…
In Italy, at Ben-Gurion Racing’s pit, from left to right, BGR2014 team leader Dudy Daud, project manager Tamir Plachinsky, main sponsor of the event Giampaolo Dallara, former EU president and former Italian prime minister Romano Prodi and the rest of…
SCiO allows users to find out the molecular breakdown of almost anything. (photo courtesy of Consumer Physics) Consumer Physics, a technology startup based in Israel, was founded on the idea of empowering people to learn more about the physical world…
