A U.S. high-powered airborne laser weapon shot down a ballistic missile in the first successful test of a futuristic directed energy weapon, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said on Friday.
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U.S. successfully tests airborne laser on missile
Friday, February 12th, 2010Mount of Olives cemetery finds a new home – on the Internet
Monday, January 25th, 2010
The Mount of Olives cemetery.
Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski
The world’s oldest Jewish cemetery just went online.
Text Suggests Bible Written Centuries Earlier
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
The ancient text shown in this drawing was discovered on a shard of pottery in Israel, and turned out to be the earliest known example of Hebrew writing.
Scientists have discovered the earliest known Hebrew writing – an inscription dating from the 10th century B.C., during the period of King David’s reign.
Jordan asks Canada to seize Dead Sea scrolls
Saturday, January 2nd, 20102,000-year-old Hebrew artifacts, which Jordan claims were illegally taken by Israel in 1967, are on display in Toronto
Israel plunges into water technology
Friday, December 18th, 2009In a country with few natural resources and where the most famous body of water is the Dead Sea, Israel is looking beyond its arid landscape and taking the lead in water technology, the latest export-oriented industry to help it weather the effects of the global meltdown.
Israeli invention allows for early detection of cancerous skin tumor
Friday, November 20th, 2009A new Israeli invention allows cancerous tumors on the skin to be detected and examined before they become visible to the naked eye, Ben-Gurion University announced. In initial testing carried out in the Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva, the new instruments managed to identify several types of skin tumors, including melanoma. The findings were presented yesterday at the Israeli Union of Plastic Surgery conference in Tel Aviv.
Bone repair ‘breakthrough’ at Hadassah
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Prof. Meir Liebergall works in his lab.
Photo: Hadassah Medical Organization
A team at Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Medical Center has managed for the first time in the world to separate platelets and adult stem cells from the blood and bone marrow of patients with fractures and inject them – causing the bones to meld in a quarter to third of the time it usually takes to repair bones, and repairing some breaks that without the therapy would fail to heal at all.
Tel Aviv University develops new wound dressing packed with infection-fighting antibiotics
Friday, November 20th, 2009Despite advances in treatment regimens and the best efforts of nurses and doctors, about 70% of all people with severe burns die from related infections. But a revolutionary new wound dressing developed at Tel Aviv University could cut that number dramatically.
No men OR women needed: Scientists create sperm and eggs from stem cells
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Forever fertile? Infertile men and women could have their own biological children using the breakthrough sperm and eggs
But it raises a number of moral and ethical concerns. These include the possibility of children being born through entirely artificial means, and men and women being sidelined from the process of making babies.
A particle God doesn’t want us to discover
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Could the Large Hadron Collider be sabotaging itself from the future, as some physicists say