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Three Israeli universities secured prestigious positions in the 2025 Shanghai Ranking published Friday, demonstrating academic excellence despite unprecedented challenges from international boycott movements and wartime conditions. The Weizmann Institute achieved 71st place worldwide, leading Israeli institutions in the global academic ranking. The Hebrew University claimed 88th position, while Technion earned 97th place among the world’s top universities.
Wash — and learn. “The next time you’re using a tumble dryer, take a look at the lint catcher,” materials scientist Joshua Grolman told The Post. “All of this debris is what we breathe in on a daily basis.” Microplastics are ubiquitous, found in everything from toys and cosmetics to cleaning products and clothing. They’re in the air we breathe, the food we eat and the water we drink and swim in. These particles, which slough off larger plastic, are suspected to harm reproductive, digestive and respiratory health, potentially leading to infertility, colon cancer and lung problems. Joshua Grolman is…
By all appearances, Decart is moving fast. The Tel Aviv-based AI startup has secured $100 million in new funding at a $3.1 billion valuation, just two years after it was founded. It now counts 60 employees and a growing global presence. At the center of its pitch: the belief that AI’s next frontier won’t be text or images, but real-time video. While others rushed to build language models, Decart started with the hardware layer, developing a GPU optimization stack that it quietly licensed to major cloud providers in multi-million dollar deals. That foundation gave the company early revenue, and the…
Researchers from the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences at the Technion have developed a technology capable of identifying various aspects of a reader’s interaction with a text that is based solely on their eye movements. The team’s findings were presented at Association for Computational Linguistics, a conference in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Vienna. The research was led by doctoral student Omer Shubi, together with master’s student Cfir Hadar, under the supervision of Dr. Yevgeni Berzak. People read texts with different goals. Whether it’s a novel, a cooking recipe, a newspaper article, or a scientific paper,…
The crew of the cargo ship Eternity C could hardly believe their eyes – within minutes, their vessel was sunk in broad daylight in the Red Sea by an unmanned boat and RPG missiles, and they were taken captive by Houthi rebels. The next day, another container ship was attacked in the Red Sea – and it too was sunk. Just a few years ago, such a scenario would have sounded completely far-fetched. Yet these two alarming incidents occurred just this past month – and they are not the only ones. Worse still – they are only part of a…
A potentially game-changing construction material under development at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology utilizes microorganisms, rather than cement, to bind sand particles together, while also absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming. According to the UN Environment Program, the construction industry accounts for a whopping 37 percent of global warming emissions. The Technion’s interdisciplinary project CyanoGems utilizes microorganisms that photosynthesize, meaning they use sunlight to create food from carbon dioxide and water. During photosynthesis, carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and oxygen is emitted.
In the sweltering summer heat, search teams are still scouring the Guadalupe River in central Texas for the bodies of dozens of people who have missing since flash floods devastated the Hill Country earlier this month. A search and rescue team of ZAKA volunteers from Israel is using a unique set of skills to help find them faster. “We arrived about two weeks ago after authorities made a request for us to provide assistance,” ZAKA International commander Nachman Dyksztejn told Times of Israel. “People here know and appreciate that Israel is here helping, and the entire community has been very…
Even though they may occasionally be disgruntled by Israel’s deeds and policies, this does not deter serial philanthropists from supporting the Israeli causes in which they believe. One such person is Stephen B. Klein, the founder and CEO of the Klein Company, a real estate development firm that operates in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Florida. A longtime donor to Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and a member of its Board of Governors, he is also a Technion guardian and fellow, and has been the recipient of a Technion honorary doctorate. His most recent gift is the addition of a building…
Medical crash carts — stocked with medications, syringes, gauze, and IV fluids — are essential tools in emergency rooms, where seconds matter, space is tight, and confusion can cost lives. However, despite their importance, crash carts vary widely in layout between hospitals and departments. In high-stress situations, this inconsistency can lead to delays as providers search for supplies or open the wrong drawers. That’s why a team of Cornell researchers set out to reimagine the traditional crash cart, transforming it into a robot designed to support, not disrupt, emergency care teams during critical, time-sensitive procedures. Their work, led by Angelique…
A breakthrough in clean energy could unlock affordable, industrial-scale green hydrogen. For the first time, scientists have determined how to scale up decoupled water electrolysis, a technique that produces green hydrogen without carbon emissions or expensive hardware. This method could be a game-changer in how hydrogen is made, stored, and used across various energy-intensive industries. Traditional hydrogen production relies on dirty energy, releasing tons of pollution. Green hydrogen, by contrast, is made by splitting water with clean energy like solar or wind, but current technologies struggle to scale due to cost and instability. Conventional electrolysis uses membranes to separate hydrogen…
The consumption of soft drinks, supplemented with white sugar, alters the DNA of gut bacteria and affects the host immune system. The good news? These effects are reversible. Findings by researchers from the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology—Professor Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Ph.D. student Noa Gal-Mandelbaum and other members of the Geva-Zatorsky team—were recently published in Nature Communications. Tamar Ziv and the Smoler Proteomics Center at the Technion assisted with the research. Gut bacteria are important members of the microbial community within the human body, i.e., the microbiome. These bacteria, which have…
Israeli startup Scanary.ai is introducing a patented radar and AI-based scanning system for remote mass security screening in open environments. The system, developed by the Tel Aviv-based company, scans individuals in motion from a distance of up to 10 meters — eliminating the need for physical checks or queues common at today’s security checkpoints. To date, the company has raised about $3 million. The scan takes less than two seconds and, if proven effective, could revolutionize crowd security at large-scale events by replacing physical pat-downs and pocket emptying. The system has received regulatory approvals in Europe, including CE and GDPR…