Monthly Archives: April 2013

Developing renewable energy together

Ben Gurion University and the University of Michigan are to forge a research partnership on developing renewable technologies. The three-year program will research advanced vehicle fuels, solar energy and thermoelectric materials, which convert heat to electricity. http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/news/UM_partnership.aspx

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Happy 40th birthday to the cell phone

The International media is full of news of the first cell phone call made in 1973 by Martin Cooper of Motorola. They are strangely silent about the fact that much of the technology was developed at Motorola’s Haifa development center. … Continue reading

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