To Touch and to Smell - a Nature Experience that Creates Happiness
According to new findings by researcher's at Israel's Technion, the senses -- mainly smell and touch -- are vital in the process that allows us to relax and enjoy nature.
View ArticleThe Ramanujan Machine
Using AI and computer automation, Technion researchers have developed a "conjecture generator" that creates mathematical conjectures, which are considered to be the starting point for developing...
View ArticleTechnion Launches Nanosatellites Into Outer Space
In a first, three Israeli satellites will be launched simultaneously on March 20. The Adelis-SAMSON project from the Technion involves three autonomous nanosatellites that will fly in formation and...
View ArticleA Spatiotemporal Symphony of Light
Using an ultrafast transmission electron microscope, researchers from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology have, for the first time, recorded the propagation of combined sound and light waves...
View ArticleScientists Develop a Tuberculosis-Diagnosing Sticker Patch
Israeli scientists have demonstrated a novel means of diagnosing tuberculosis by means of a sticker patch that catches compounds released by the skin. Using an artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of...
View ArticleDo All of Us Understand Coronavirus News Coverage?
A study to discern the extent to which the average adult understands the quantitative information appearing in the news about COVID-19 showed that fear of math can significantly hinder one's ability to...
View ArticleTechnion Researchers Use Laser "Tweezers" to Study Structure and Dynamics of...
Using optical tweezer technology, Technion researchers were able to gain a greater understanding of the poorly understood DNA packaging process, which impacts how genes are expressed.
View ArticleResearch: Cells Expressing Tendon Markers Fuse Into Muscles
Israeli researchers have made a breakthrough discovery that muscle fibers are of hybrid origins. The findings highlight a mechanism that enables a smooth transition from muscle fiber characteristics...
View ArticlePersonalized Medicine: Platform Enables Comparative Research on Cancerous Tumors
An international team of researchers has developed an algorithm that enhances the ability to compare tumors between different patients, overcoming high inter-patient variability. Although the...
View ArticleA Cure for Diabetes?
Technion researchers are working on a novel treatment approach for treating type 2 diabetes using an autograft of muscle cells engineered to take in sugar at increased rates. Mice treated in this...
View ArticleAn Inflammation to Remember
A new discovery of a physiological mechanism of psychosomatic illnesses could open a new therapeutic avenue for treating chronic inflammatory conditions such as Crohn's disease, psoriasis, and other...
View ArticleMaterials from the Future
A development by a team of Israeli and American researchers could make possible acoustic cloaking, in which an object is concealed when the acoustic waves generated around it are identical to the waves...
View ArticleOn Violations, Enforcement, and Deterrence
Israeli researchers revealed surprising findings about the effectiveness of various deterrence patterns: frequent mild punishments are more effective than infrequent severe punishments
View ArticleQuantum Marbles in a Bowl of Light
German and Israeli physicists have devised an elegant experiment to answer which factors determine how fast a quantum computer can perform its calculations.
View ArticleFlexible Micro-Needles Platform Provides Quick, Continuous, and Pain-Free...
Technion scientists have developed a system -- based on smart micro-needles fixed inside a sticker that attaches to the skin -- that continuously monitors a patient's medical condition and sends the...
View ArticleMachine Learning Antibiotic Prescriptions Can Help Minimize Resistance Spread
Using genomic sequencing techniques and machine learning analysis of patient records, Israeli researchers have developed an antibiotic prescribing algorithm that cuts the risk of emergence of...
View ArticleTechnion Prof. Emeritus Moussa Youdim Receives 2022 Israel Prize in Life...
Professor Emeritus Moussa Youdim is the recipient of the 2022 Israel Prize for Life Sciences. He is co-developer of the Parkinson's disease drug Azilect (Rasagiline), and was selected for the Israel...
View ArticleThe Steak is the Limit
Israeli scientists have succeeded in creating edible muscle fibers by bioprinting a plant-based scaffold and living animal cells. By using non-animal-derived materials like pea protein, which is...
View ArticleAtomic-scale spin-optical laser: new horizon of optoelectronic devices
Technion researchers have developed a coherent and controllable spin-optical laser based on a single atomic layer. It paves the way to study coherent spin-dependent phenomena in both classical and...
View ArticleTechnion Announces Harvey Prize Recipients
The Harvey Prize will be presented this year to Professor Emerita Helen Quinn from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissmanfrom the University of Pennsylvania,...
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