
Turing Prize awarded to Israeli specialising in randomness
Israeli mathematician Avi Wigderson is the first to win both the Turing and Abel prizes, celebrating a ‘joyride’ career.

Israeli mathematician Avi Wigderson is the first to win both the Turing and Abel prizes, celebrating a ‘joyride’ career.

A supermassive black hole from around 700 million years after the Big Bang has been discovered by Ben Gurion University astronomers.

ScienTech aims to build an innovation ecosystem in the Arab cities of northern Israel based on a strong culture of scientific achievement.

Shai Carmi, Rina Rosenzweig and Zvika Brakerski will each receive $100,000 as laureates of 2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel.

Science advocates reach hundreds of thousands of Israelis each month and don’t shy away from all the hard topics – evolution, climate change and cats.

Spanish associate editor Mariano Man updates 700 attendees on Israeli solutions for water management, agriculture and alternative energy, focusing on sustainability.

A team of researchers has identified two new planets in distant solar systems that are similar in size to Jupiter and complete an orbit of their suns in less than four days.

Prof. Noga Alon is affiliated with Tel Aviv and Princeton universities; Prof. Ehud Hrushovski teaches mathematical logic at Oxford University.

On historic space mission, Israel’s Sheba Medical Center is studying the effect of microgravity on the global health problem of antibiotic resistance.

10-day intercontinental project used a robot to enable high school students to engage in scientific experimentation together across the miles.

Acclaimed model from Israel Sci-Tech Schools adds innovation and arts to math, science, engineering and technology education.

Weizmann Institute scientists point to Alma1 redox-sensitive enzyme behind familiar salty seaside odor.

ISRAEL21c tours the new Porter School of Environmental Studies building in Tel Aviv, Israel’s first LEED Platinum edifice.

An Israeli graduate student devises anti-slime coating for boxes used to transport fruits and vegetables to market.

Prof. Hossam Haick, the Technion’s rising star in nanotechnology, believes the young Arab generation is thirsting for advanced scientific knowledge.