Israel Science & Technology News

Ada E. Yonath, one of the winners of this year Nobel Prize in Chemistry, had an inspiring career, from the poor starting in a poor family in Jerusalem to the first wave of the scientific world. Currently professor of structural...

A group of farmers who acquired some extra farm land 5 miles west of Jerusalem have found an "archeological gold mine" They've discovered a Byzantine Monastery that's been buried for more than 1500 years lying just below the surface of...

My Heritage provides, for free, all the tools and a versatile website for a do-it-yourself online family tree. You can publish your family's biographical details, stories, scanned documents and photos, and even videos. Your legacy will be safe and secure...

Crime scene investigations are about to get a whole new challenge: possible phony DNA planted in crime scenes. Scientists in Israel have published a report claiming success in the fabrication of Deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA, that doesn’t require a person’s sample....

By Rabbi DR. Moshe Dror It seems to me that much of the writing that I read dealing with information technologies with in the Jewish community seem to deal with these ideas of cyberspace as merely “tools”- nice and snazzy...

An artificial underground cave, the largest in Israel, has been exposed in the Jordan Valley in the course of a survey carried out by the University of Haifa's Department of Archaeology. Prof. Adam Zertal, who headed the excavating team, reckons...

This is robotics in real action – the Israelis claim to have developed a camera that fits into what looks like the head of a snake. The complete mechanism slithers over the ground and the undergrowth just like a snake...