Category: Technology

Over the past decade, a new form of scepticism about human activities in space has emerged. It seems to be based exclusively in the western world, and centred around the idea that increasingly ambitious space plans will damage humanity and neglect the Earth. In China, things are different, but this will likely change eventually. Our […]

We weren’t the first to lay eyes on the engraving since it was carved into the hillside any number of centuries or millennia ago, not by a long shot. The Venezuelan archaeologist José Maria Cruxent even recorded it in his diaries in the 1940s – and there were certainly visitors before him. The site of […]

How do people successfully interact with those who are completely different from them? And can these differences create social barriers? Social scientists are struggling with these questions because the mental processes underlying social interactions are not well understood. One recent concept that has become increasingly popular is the “double-empathy problem”. This draws on research looking […]

The recent incident involving a Maccabi Tel Aviv player joking about posting on LinkedIn after his team’s championship victory has thrust the professional networking platform into the soccer spotlight. Meanwhile, reports suggest that Liverpool FC is now actively looking to replace members of Jurgen Klopp’s backroom staff via LinkedIn. These developments have sparked speculation that […]

“Nanotechnology is the future of basically everything,” says Prof. Tal Dvir, director of Tel Aviv University’s Jan Koum Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. “It’s the future of medicine, energy, and computing. Everything is done with the small est building blocks.”  In recent years, nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter on a near-atomic scale to produce new […]

It has been over a century since the boom period of physics exploded with Albert Einstein, Max Planck and others, sending us spinning into a new world of chaos from our previously ordered universe. This brilliant generation of physicists ultimately peeled back the layers of the universe, as well as of the atom, to reveal […]

Since its inception in 2018 at Tel Aviv University (TAU), the Aufzien Family Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, together with the  Neurological Institute at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (TASMC), has made remarkable progress in promoting research, bringing together scientists, clinicians, patients and industry to work together in the search […]

An advanced algorithm that has been developed by Google DeepMind has gone some way to cracking one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in biology. AlphaFold aims to predict the 3D structures of proteins from the “instruction code” in their building blocks. The latest upgrade has recently been released. The latest upgrade has recently been released. […]

At some point in your life, you are likely to need legal advice. A survey carried out in 2023 by the Law Society, the Legal Services Board and YouGov found that two-thirds of respondents had experienced a legal issue in the past four years. The most common problems were employment, finance, welfare and benefits and […]