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Weaver ants in the northern Australian rainforests link their bodies to pull leaves together. (Feinerman lab)
April 1, 2026, 7:39 pm
Israeli lab decodes the building talents of a tropical ant
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute use time-lapse tech and geometry to probe the collective cognitive unit of weaver ants
By Sue Surkes
The Barnard 68 nebula, located in the constellation Ophiuchus, approximately 400 light-years from Earth. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Dr. Shmuel Bialy of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and his team measured the signals emitted from this nebula as a result of molecular hydrogen excitation by cosmic rays for the first time. (Courtesy/ European Southern Observatory)
February 6, 2026, 7:57 am
A star is born: Israeli team detects stellar-creation particles 400 light-years away
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers measure cosmic rays in far-off Barnard 68 nebula; study opens ‘new field of astrophysics research’
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Yasmine Meroz, School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Wise Faculty of Life Sciences at Tel Aviv University. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)
August 23, 2024, 1:15 am
Sunflowers dance together to balance sunlight and shade, Israeli researchers say
Tel Aviv University team explains how the plants grow close together and move in zigzag patterns for optimal growth in a collective ‘dance party’
By Diana Bletter
Researchers build a muon detector in a cave under the City of David in 2023. (Courtesy: Gilad Mizrachi / Tel Aviv University)
February 3, 2024, 1:49 pm
Unable to dig, researchers look to cosmic rays to unlock Jerusalem’s ancient underworld
A Tel Aviv University team is using muon detectors to track powerful particles, hoping to build a 3D map of undiscovered tunnels, chambers and fortifications under the hole-y city
By Diana Bletter
This handout photograph released by CERN shows the insertion of the ALPHA-g apparatus at CERN in Geneva on October 15, 2018. (Handout/CERN/AFP)
September 28, 2023, 3:49 am
Mysterious antimatter observed falling down due to gravity for the first time
Hailed as a ‘huge milestone’ in physics, research involving Israeli scientist confirms prediction made by Einstein’s theory of relativity
By Daniel Lawler
This August 2017 photo made available by Fermilab shows the Muon g-2 ring at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside of Chicago. (Reidar Hahn/Fermilab via AP)
April 7, 2021, 9:04 pm
‘Tantalizing’ results of 2 experiments shake up physics rulebook
Physicist says preliminary findings from recent research on muon particle could ‘take us beyond our current understanding of nature’
By Seth Borenstein
Jack Steinberger, left, in 1956 (Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images, JTA)
December 18, 2020, 1:09 pm
Jack Steinberger, pioneering Jewish physicist and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 99
Steinberger and two other Jewish colleagues were honored in 1988 for their discoveries about the neutrino; he refused to do research for weapon building
By JTA
Illustrative: Magen David Adom workers transferring a woman at Hadassah Ein Karem hospital, in Jerusalem, on March 22, 2020. (Flash90)
March 31, 2020, 5:13 pm
Research predicts Israel could see 1,000 serious COVID-19 cases by Passover
‘It’s a wake-up call, and we have to listen to it,’ says Nadav Katz of Hebrew University, whose study indicates the lockdown is failing to protect the elderly
By Nathan Jeffay
Jackson Oswalt shows his homemade fusion reactor to Fox News. (Fox News screenshot)
February 23, 2019, 9:49 am
12-year-old American boy achieves nuclear fusion at home
Jackson Oswalt, who is believed to be youngest ever to reach the feat, built a small amateur nuclear reactor with parents’ financial assistance
By ToI Staff
399485 01: Physicist Stephen Hawking smiles during a symposium in honor of his birthday at the University of Cambridge January 11, 2002 in Cambridge, England. (Sion Touhig/Getty Images, via JTA)
March 14, 2018, 11:43 pm
Israeli academic inspired one of Stephen Hawking’s biggest discoveries
Scientist Jacob Bekenstein, who later taught at Hebrew University for 25 years, sparred with preeminent theoretical physicist before they cooperated on black holes
By JTA
British physicist Stephen Hawking attends a conference with Israeli high school students at the Bloomfield Museum of Science in Jerusalem December 10, 2006 (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90)
March 14, 2018, 5:59 am
Stephen Hawking, who sought to unlock secrets of the universe, dies at age 76
Britain’s most famous modern-day scientist had been expected to live only a few years after crippled with ALS; family mourns ‘an extraordinary man whose legacy will live on’
By AFP and ToI Staff
This image provided by the National Science Foundation shows a rendering of how the first stars in the universe might have looked. Scientists have detected a signal from 180 million years after the Big Bang when the earliest stars began glowing. The findings were published on February 28, 2018 in the journal Nature. (N.R.Fuller/National Science Foundation via AP)
February 28, 2018, 9:42 pm
Israeli, US scientists detect signs of dark matter in glimpse of earliest stars
Early universe after Big Bang apparently twice as cold as previously thought — possibly because of dark matter interacting with hydrogen, says Tel Aviv University astrophysicist
By Seth Borenstein
Illustration of a neutron star. (Screen capture: YouTube, Hebrew University)
October 16, 2017, 9:34 pm
Israeli scientists predicted effects seen in historic neutron star study
The scientific community was skeptical following a 1989 paper positing that stars’ collision leads to the creation of heavy elements, like gold
By ToI Staff and AFP
An illustration depicting the collision of two neutron stars detected on August 17, 2017. (Robin Dienel/Carnegie Institution for Science via AP)
October 16, 2017, 7:47 pm
Scientists witness huge cosmic crash, find origins of gold
Astronomers for the first time observe collision of two neutron stars, confirming rate of expansion of universe, formation of heavy elements
By Seth Borenstein
Illustrative: A supernova explosion. (YouTube screenshot)
February 13, 2017, 10:07 pm
Israeli astronomers catch first hours of supernova
Weizmann Institute scientist helps reconstruct explosion of star, whose light took 160 million years to reach earth
By Mariëtte Le Roux
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