Category: Technology

The mysterious beeper explosions on Tuesday that wounded over 3,600 people in Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah terrorists, were the result of extensive planning, according to an Israeli cyber expert. The operation, he said, involved embedding components within the beepers that could translate signals into ignition and detonation. “In the world of cyber, there’s a concept known as the […]

In September 1859, the same year that Darwin published On the Origin of Species, telegraph systems across Europe and North America stopped working and started sparking, leading to fires in some cases. Just hours before, researchers had observed the first ever confirmed solar flare – an intense burst of radiation emitted from the Sun. It […]

On September 4 2024, astronomers discovered an asteroid, one metre in diameter, heading towards Earth. The space rock would burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere near the Philippines later that day, officials announced. Nevertheless, it produced a spectacular fireball that was shared in videos posted on social media. The object, known as RW1, was only […]

Gardeners the world over dread the appearance of aphids on their plants. There are around 4,000 species of these sap-sucking insects and about 250 are pests that can wreak havoc on crops in a garden or orchard. One of them is the woolly apple aphid (Eriosoma lanigerum). As its name suggests, this aphid attacks apple […]

As the war of narratives online becomes more intense with each passing day, the “Hack the Hate – Israeli Tech Against Online Antisemitism” conference, created and organized by the 8200 Alumni Association and Generative AI for Good, could not have come at a better time. The conference, which took place on September 10 in Tel […]

For 81-year-old Nira, a retired nurse and community member who lives in the heart of Tel Aviv, “the thought of moving to assisted living really gave me chills. Then I heard about a new Israeli technology that can provide me with the security and assistance that I need to live in a big city with […]

Antibacterial discovery has become a pressing global challenge. Rising antibiotic resistance and difficult-to-treat infections mean we urgently need new antibacterial drugs and infection prevention measures. Food production problems such as bacterial crop disease and food spoilage are driving demand for innovations too. Many antibacterial products in current use come from nature, two examples being the […]

From the swimming habits of dead trout to the revelation that some mammals can breathe through their backsides, a group of leading leftfield scientists have been taking their bows at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 34th annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Not to be confused with the actual Nobel prizes, the Ig Nobels […]

In spring and summer flowers pop up spontaneously in lawns, playgrounds, fields and even cracks in the pavement. But what do you see: weeds or wildflowers? You might feel a little frustrated when you see wildflowers growing in the street. Why are they thriving while it can be a struggle to get garden flowers to […]

You might think flowers don’t have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can’t move. But when scientists from Nagoya, Japan used powerful microscopes to study the fertilisation process, they were surprised to find the female part of a flowering plant (ovules) could repel sperm from pollen […]