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Illustrative: Hand holding AI agents' virtual interface with data analytics, automation, and machine learning icons. (iStock by Getty Images/Suchat longthara)
July 1, 2026, 5:32 pm
UN panel warns unchecked AI development may lead to ‘catastrophic’ harm
Experts say progress on AI ‘outpacing’ scientists’ understanding and government regulation, has potential to cause damage on its own or by malicious users
By Olivia Le Poidevin
Illustrative: Indian army display drones during an operational drill in Pathankot, India, February 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
June 2, 2026, 6:04 pm
Motorola Solutions buys Israeli drone defense startup D-Fend for $1.5 billion
Raanana-based firm uses radio waves to commandeer UAVs instead of jamming or intercepting them; system deployed in over 30 countries; described as largest-ever Israeli defense tech exit
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,' at the Vatican, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
May 25, 2026, 4:25 pm
Pope calls for robust AI regulation in manifesto pondering the future of humanity
Leo XIV’s first encyclical demands AI be ‘disarmed,’ freed from use as ‘instrument of domination, exclusion and death’; expert says edict may be ‘defining document for our era’
By Nicole Winfield, KAITLYN HOUMANI and Paolo Santalucia
In this image provided by NASA, The Artemis II crew captured this view of an Earthset on April 6, 2026, as they flew around the Moon. (NASA via AP)
April 7, 2026, 7:13 pm
Artemis II crew takes historic photo of Earth setting behind moon
NASA’s newest moon mission channels Apollo 8’s iconic ‘Earthrise’ picture from 1968; White House calls it ‘Humanity, from the other side’
By AFP
The moon, as seen in the window of the Orion spacecraft, at the end of day 5 of the journey to the moon, on April 6, 2026. (Artemis II crew, via NASA via AP)
April 6, 2026, 11:37 pm
Artemis II astronauts reach farther from Earth than any humans in history
While looping around the moon, the four astronauts aboard the Orion capsule surpass Apollo 13’s record, journeying over 250,000 miles away from home
By Marcia Dunn
NASA's Artermis II moon rocket sits on Launch Pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center hours ahead of a planned launch attempt, April 1, 2026, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (AP/Chris O'Meara)
April 1, 2026, 10:46 pm
Artemis II ready for launch as NASA set to make 1st trip around moon in over 50 years
With the rocket fueled and the crew prepped for takeoff, NASA’s ambitious moon mission looks to take 3 Americans and 1 Canadian further from Earth than any humans have ever been
By AFP
CeraPiper clay cooling pipes. (Courtesy/Haim Zinger); Ofer Berman, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Courtesy)
March 15, 2026, 4:49 pm
Cornell and Technion scientists adapt ancient clay air conditioning tech for sustainable cooling
In innovative study that precedes Cornell students’ push to sever ties with Israeli institution, researchers use traditional ceramic know-how for off-grid chill through evaporation
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: Strains of B. paralicheniformis seen on skim milk, left, and gelatin agars. (CC-BY; Saniya Aktayeva, Bekbolat Khassenov in Scientific Reports)
January 9, 2026, 4:33 pm
Israeli team pioneers bacteria ‘factories’ to produce medicine inside the body
In peer-reviewed study on mice, Technion scientists say novel method using harmless microneedle patches opens the door to treat war wounds, diabetes, and inflammatory skin diseases
By Diana Bletter
This archaeon, or single-celled organism, is Pyrococcus furiosus, whose name means 'furious fireball.' It is most at home at temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Farenheit). (Courtesy/Weizmann Institute of Science)
December 26, 2025, 9:58 pm
Israeli scientists say tiny organisms can revamp their own RNA to survive extreme heat
Using a novel method, Weizmann Institute researchers map 16 types of simultaneous changes in dozens of samples; findings can lead to improved RNA-based medical technologies
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Shoshana Greenberger (L), director of Sheba Medical Center's Multidisciplinary Center for Vascular Anomalies Studies, and Prof. Karina Yaniv of Weizmann Institute's Immunology and Regenerative Biology Department. (Courtesy)
September 11, 2025, 10:36 am
Zebrafish help Israeli researchers hook potential cure for deadly genetic disease
Scientists from Weizmann Institute and Sheba Medical Center says they were able to recreate rare lymphatic illness KLA in aquatic creatures, and treat it; they hope humans come next
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Nathalie Q. Balaban, left, with Dr. Raya Faigenbaum-Romm in Balaban's microbiology lab at the Racah Institute of Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Courtesy/Zohar Binyamin)
August 26, 2025, 6:01 pm
Using novel method to compare subgroups, Israeli researchers unlock bacteria’s secrets
Hebrew University scientists say their ‘Microcolony-seq’ tool could lead to more precise targeting of antibiotics and vaccines and become a boon to public health
By Diana Bletter
Weizmann Institute of Israel scientists, from left to right: Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam, Dr. Ofer Yaron, and Dr. Steve Schulze of Northwestern University. (Courtesy)
August 20, 2025, 11:22 pm
Team led by Israeli and American scientists discovers silicon and sulfur at supernova core
Weizmann Institute of Science and Northwestern University researchers say analysis of inner depths of star SN2021yfj confirms the theory that stars have heavier elements
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: Israel's Orbit team celebrates winning the FIRST robotics competition in 2024. (Courtesy: FIRST)
April 23, 2025, 4:05 pm
Top-ranked Israeli robotics team gives up championship bid over Shabbat observance
Trigon team from Modiin’s AMIT high school pulls out despite being ranked 15th out of 600, one of eight Israeli teams to make it to a final stage of the elite competition in Texas
By ToI Staff
An artist's impression of a large asteroid impacting at Chicxulub on the Mexican coastline, which caused the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, 66 million years ago, with the planet Mars and asteroid bodies in the background, in this image obtained by Reuters on August 14, 2024. (Mark Garlick/Handout via Reuters)
August 17, 2024, 11:24 am
Asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs originated beyond Jupiter, scientists show
Researchers publish findings that used an innovative sample analysis technique to confirm assumptions about the apocalyptic culprit that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago
By Lucie AUBOURG
An illustration showing four modular enzyme fragments (highlighted) that Weizmann Institute’s CADENZ method can combine to generate active enzymes at unprecedented scale. (Weizmann Institute of Science)
January 12, 2023, 9:08 pm
Israeli researchers able to build enzymes ‘like Lego,’ in potential boon for drugs
Bold new technique at Weizmann Institute generates new enzymes with unprecedented scale, in possible boost to both chemical industry and development of medical treatments
By Nathan Jeffay
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