The president-elect was keen to emphasize that 'science will always be at the forefront of my administration,' as he boosted the science advisor post, to Cabinet level, a first in White House history
Big tech companies simply saw what any junior political analyst could see – the king of Twitter and Facebook is dead or dying; long live the new king
Energy generated by sea waves, cartilage made of corals, healthful dough, 3D printed organs, a tiny camera that helps blind people see and an ultrasound from the comfort of your living room: A Haaretz project surveys promising Israeli companies
British scientists also say the variant found in the U.K. still seems to be susceptible to vaccines
The rapid rollout combined with the country’s vast medical database is a gold mine that will serve doctors and scientists in the years to come
On human evolution: cooking before fire, storing perishables before electricity, counterfeiting before money, enigmatic footprints in Saudi Arabia, moon gods and shamans and so much more
The pandemic revealed the world's total dependence upon public financing and should finally explode the myth that the less a government 'interferes,' the better
Moran Cerf, a French-Israeli neuroscientist and one of the first Israeli hackers, thinks human error enabled the recent spate of attacks targeting Israel. In an interview, he explains how to protect your privacy and security
Available, light and nonpolluting, hydrogen could be an ideal source of energy and due to recent technological developments, an increasingly feasible one
Analysis of a single rock used to abrade materials, probably hides, indicates sophistication in tool use much deeper in time than had previously been thought
Facebook operates like a legislator who declares, in essence, that incitement is permitted and even desirable. The fact that we don't recognize its legislative capabilities plays into the tech giant’s hands
The world is considering adaptation to rising seas but ignoring danger to lakes as global temperatures climb, new paper warns
Scholars studying pre-modern pandemics have been reinforcing plague myths without actually checking for evidence to back the ancient wails of woe. And give the rat a break
Specifically, scorpionflies. This last great mystery in the evolutionary tree finally resolved by grad student’s groundbreaking big-data genetics study
The swift spread of the coronavirus that spurred lockdown in the U.K. may be caused by a new strain, but there's yet clear scientific information regarding its significance, expert on clinical microbiology says
The stabilizer, meant to ensure vaccines remain safe and effective during storage and transport, presents a challenge for vaccination campaigns in some communities
The closest Jupiter-Saturn pairing since July 1623 should be easily visible around the world a little after sunset on Monday
The Israeli vaccine, one of scores of coronavirus inoculations that are being developed worldwide, now has to contend with the fact that it has been beaten to the punch by Pfizer and Moderna
The world is starting to take climate change seriously, which is just as well, because humanity is not going anywhere
Last year, after entering the Moon's orbit, the original Beresheet lost its main engine and went into an uncontrolled descent before it crashed
As a possible means for alleviating the acute social isolation affecting the world's elderly, exacerbated because of the coronavirus pandemic, some academics are suggesting a rather controversial idea: sex doll companionship
What did Israel’s founding father think about artificial intelligence? A series of letters he exchanged with the founding father of Israeli computer science reveals his thoughts
The story of an exceptional scientist who discovered how tumors outwit the immune system – and en route may also have found the key to fighting Alzheimer’s
FDA submission starts the clock on a process that could bring limited first shots as early as next month. Here's what to expect next
Who is the former air force pilot who’ll climb onboard a SpaceX rocket at the end of 2021 and head to the International Space Station?
Active expectation of confronting spiders reduces arachnophobes’ anxiety while uncertainty about seeing any just makes matters worse, Israeli psychologists find
A small select group of cyber experts seek out weak points in digital systems, and warn: 'With devices that have cameras, the invasion of privacy is more dangerous'
Bio Milk may sound like agricultural fiction, but with a decade of research and the company soon going public, its lab-produced replicas could become one of Israeli science's latest cash cows
Two volunteers have received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine developed in Israel, following promising testing on animals
Researchers at the Institute for Biological Research say they have produced over 25,000 doses of the experimental coronavirus vaccine, which has now been approved for human trials, to start November 1