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Topic: Ben-Gurion University

April 15, 2013
5:24 am

Illustration from the new book 'Tiny Dynamo,' which promotes the most important and interesting innovations to emerge from Israel. (photo credit: Courtesy Megan Flood)

65 years of innovation, from Rummikub to the ‘God Particle’

A timeline chronicling vital, fascinating breakthroughs produced by Israelis in the lifespan of the modern state

By Marcella Rosen

March 21, 2013
10:59 am

University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer (L) and Ben Gurion University President Rivka Carmi sign the MOU on water research at a March 8 signing ceremony in Chicago (Photo credit: Courtesy BGU)

Making water better, molecule by molecule

Israel’s BGU will collaborate with UChicago to solve the world’s water problems using nanotechnology

By David Shamah

February 25, 2013
12:53 pm

Unmarried men and their supporters blow shofars at the grave of Rabbi Yonatan ben Uziel near Safed. (Ben Sales/JTA)

Looking for love? Rabbis hope you’ll blow it

Shofar ceremony promises lifelong love to men with an open mind about how to find their match

By Ben Sales

January 27, 2013
6:31 pm

Alon Friedman (left) and Ilan Shelef with the MRI machine on Sunday (photo credit: courtesy of Dani Machlis/BGU)

Sharon responsive to pictures of family, researchers say

Israeli and American experts find former prime minister, in a vegetative state since 2006, reacts to aural and visual stimuli

By Aaron Kalman

January 1, 2013
1:01 am

Waze screenshot (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Researchers use Israelis’ favorite crowdsourced commuting app to keep traffic cops on the ball

Waze is being drafted to battle road accidents, by determining whether traffic police are patrolling problem intersections

By David Shamah

December 24, 2012
7:35 am

In Dr Solowey’s nursery at Kibbutz Ketura (photo credit: Courtesy, Matthew Kalman)

Frankincense comes home for Christmas

After a 1,500 year absence, the biblical plant has been resurrected in the Holy Land

By Matthew Kalman

November 28, 2012
1:32 pm

Bible scholar Tzemah Yoreh questions the common telling of the binding of Isaac -- the version that inspired Caravaggio -- in which an angel stops Abraham moments before he sacrifices his son. (Photo credit: From http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/isaac.jpgg/via Wikipedia)

When Abraham murdered Isaac

A young New York scholar believes he has unearthed the earliest version of the Bible, which features infanticide, a senseless massacre and only seven commandments 

By Haviv Rettig Gur

November 19, 2012
10:05 pm

UC Irvine rejects divestment push

Campus officials veto unanimous student council resolution criticizing Israeli ‘apartheid’

November 18, 2012
11:26 pm

The campus of Ben-Gurion University, Sunday (Times of Israel/Matti Friedman)

For the flagship university of southern Israel, sirens replace bells

Beersheba’s Ben-Gurion University has been closed since last week because of the fire from Gaza, a reality that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago

By Matti Friedman

November 5, 2012
2:14 am

David Resnick (photo credit: Yehoshua Reznik/Wikimedia Commons)

Architect David Resnick dead at 88

Israel Prize winner and Hebrew U. designer to be buried in Jerusalem Monday

By Yoel Goldman

July 30, 2012
7:51 am

Light reading for the summer (photo credit: Chen Leopold/Flash 90)

Summer reading: Everyone’s doing it

What are some locals dipping into?

By Jessica Steinberg

February 22, 2012
2:15 pm

A new fire department recruit trains at a base in central Israel (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israeli firefighters stricken by PTSD

New study finds that 90 percent suffer from some form of post-traumatic stress disorder

By Gabe Fisher

February 22, 2012
10:05 am

Ben-Gurion University volunteer-for-rent program gets boost

Students live rent-free in underprivileged neighborhoods in exchange for at least eight hours’ service per week

February 20, 2012
2:43 pm

Granot's research revealed new details about how the earth's magnetic field developed (photo credit: NASA)

Earth’s ‘quiet’ period not so quiet after all

Mapping the magnetic core of the globe sheds light on mysterious 38-million-year period of prehistory

By Stuart Winer

February 13, 2012
12:21 pm

If you prick them, do they not feel – and tell their friends? A new study by a Ben Gurion University team shows that plants communicate their pain via a “social network.” (Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Plants spread the word on threats, via the ‘botanical social network’

Social networking isn’t just a human thing. Plants that are under stress can communicate their pain to other plants, enabling them – and their neighbors – to ‘defend’ themselves from danger

By David de Piciotto

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