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Paz Beniamini receives his Blavatnik Young Scientists Award, June 2, 2026. (Eran Be'eri)
June 6, 2026, 10:05 am
Bucking boycotts, prizewinning Israeli astrophysicist finds ‘Zen-like’ perspective in space
Open University’s first Blavatnik Award laureate, Paz Beniamini, studies cosmic bursts and neutron stars; says science must ‘be done on international level’ regardless of politics
By Diana Bletter
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May 13, 2026, 10:44 am
Kabbalah of information: Rethinking death through physics and faith
Dr. of Chemistry Eduard Shyfrin’s book The Relativity of Death presents a new theory synthesizing Kabbalah and physics to explain our existence and even death.
By Aviva Gat
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
Hesham Taha (right) and Avi Israel, co-founders of Jerusalem-based startup Teramount. (Courtesy of Perry Mendelboim)
July 29, 2025, 3:40 pm
Two physicists are the brains of an Arab-Jewish startup connecting optics to chips
Jerusalem’s Teramount secures $50 million from investors for device that connects optical fibers to silicon chips, enabling data transfer at the speed of light for AI apps
By Sharon Wrobel
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
A letter written by Albert Einstein on December 26, 1928, and addressed to 12-year-old Los Angeles resident Arthur L. Cohen, regarding the laws of motion as they relate to his theories of relativity. (Nate D. Sanders Auctions)
April 26, 2022, 2:52 pm
Einstein’s letter to a 12-year-old boy from LA up for auction
In 1928 letter, written by Einstein shortly after receiving the Nobel Prize, he replies to a question posed by Arthur L. Cohen about the physics of motion
By ToI Staff
A highly magnified image of the star Earendel. The collection of yellow-looking galaxies form the massive galaxy-cluster lens that magnifies background objects lying behind it. The inset shows the highly magnified red galaxy, host to Earendel, stretched into an arc due to lensing, and the highly magnified star is marked with a white arrow. (NASA, ESA, Brian Welch, Dan Coe)
March 31, 2022, 1:25 pm
US, Israeli scientists document oldest star ever seen, 13 billion light-years away
Light detected is so old it’s from when the universe was just 7% of its current age; Israeli professor plays key role in verifying the finding
By Nathan Jeffay
Cumrun Vafa. (Screenshot/YouTube)
October 21, 2021, 9:59 pm
Iran grants scientific award to 2 US-based physicists
Mustafa Prize winner Cumrun Vafa of Harvard says ‘there is no border for science and technology and they belong to all human beings’
By AP
Undated photo shows famed physicist Albert Einstein. (AP Photo, File)
September 22, 2021, 3:25 pm
‘Most valuable ever’ Einstein notes on relativity to be auctioned
Christie’s expects handwritten manuscript of theory’s early version to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for sale in November; the only other similar document is in Israel
By ToI Staff
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
Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, 1912 (Public Domain via WikimediaCommons)
December 21, 2020, 4:30 am
75 years post-Hiroshima, Jewish ‘mother of the bomb’ inspires spy thriller novel
Physicist Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission soon after fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938, but Nobel Prize was given to a man as she saw her breakthrough used in ways she opposed
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Branched flow, with bubbles in the background, as observed through a microscope at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (courtesy of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
July 1, 2020, 6:02 pm
Blowing bubbles, Israeli physicists accidentally make breakthrough on light
Technion researchers demonstrate branched flow, a ‘beautiful’ process that scientists have written about for years, but never seen
By Nathan Jeffay
Marcelo Gleiser (Screen grab via YouTube)
March 19, 2019, 12:39 pm
Physicist Marcelo Gleiser on winning Templeton Prize: ‘Science doesn’t kill God’
Brazilian Jew wins $1.5 million award from foundation named for man ‘seeking proofs of divine agency in every branch of science’
By Ivan Couronne
Portrait of Prof. Dr. Lise Meitner, the Swedish noted woman scientist, who assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, pictured in West Berlin, West Germany, May 11, 1957. (AP Photo/Werner Kreusch)
February 9, 2019, 4:35 am
The forgotten Jewish woman of nuclear physics who was denied a Nobel Prize
After fleeing Nazi Germany, Lise Meitner used letters to guide her colleagues in Berlin to discover nuclear fission, but she was not credited when the findings were published
By Timothy J. Jorgensen
In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018., a replica of the International Prototype Kilogram is pictured at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, in Sevres, near Paris (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
November 16, 2018, 4:50 pm
‘Grand K,’ world’s kilogram measure being retired
Metal cylinder that has been the world’s sole true kilo since 1889 to be replaced by equation based on a physics constant
By John Leicester
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