Fuel of the Future

Researchers at Israel's Technion have developed a clean, inexpensive, and safe technology for producing hydrogen. The technology significantly improves the efficiency of hydrogen production, from ~75% using current methods to an unprecedented 98.7%...
13-Sep-2019 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

All of YouTube in a Single Teaspoon: Storing Information in DNA

Israeli researchers have demonstrated information storage in a density of more than 10 petabytes (10M gigabytes) in a single gram of DNA while significantly improving the writing process.
9-Sep-2019 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Mimicking Behavior of Natural Viruses, Researchers Develop New Drug Delivery Tool

Based on the chemical behavior of natural viruses, researchers from the Technion and National Taiwan University have developed hollow nanometric balls that are expected to be used for drug delivery and safe immunizations.
9-Sep-2019 8:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Researchers Hack One of the World's Most Secure Industrial Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

Israeli researchers have managed to take control of a Siemens programmable logic controller (PLC), considered to be one of the safest controllers in the world. PLCs are used in a wide spectrum of operations including power stations, water pumps,...
8-Aug-2019 8:40 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Hey Doc, How’s My Immune System Doing?

A team of Israeli and American researchers says the state of a person’s immune system provides the most accurate measurement of a person’s health. They have developed a way to gauge “immune age,” which could bring about new frontiers in...
14-Mar-2019 8:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Super Sensitive, Groundbreaking Smart Sensor “Tastes” and “Sniffs”

Technion researchers have developed an innovative sensing system capable of identifying and distinguishing different stimuli. Based on origami, and combined with conductive ink the researchers also developed, the multi-functional sensor is capable...
13-Mar-2019 8:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Americans Trust Headlines That Match Their Political Leanings

New findings show that Americans are more likely to believe that a news story is accurate if the headline aligns with their political views — and that it does not matter whether the headline comes from a source that aligns with the reader’s...
7-Feb-2019 2:40 PM EST Add to Favorites

Falafel from Microalgae: Protein for a Hungry World

Graduate students from the Technion recently won first prize in the EIT Food Project Competition for their contribution to the development of a product called “Algalafel.” The novel falafel is enriched with spirulina, an abundant, ecologically...
27-Dec-2018 12:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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