Power in the Golan
While Syria’s Assad is using military power against his people, across the border Israel’s Enlight is harnessing the power of the wind for peaceful purposes by building six wind farms in the Golan.
Tel Aviv – Europe’s hottest start-up capital
Great feature in the latest Wired magazine.
Ashdod desalination plant is agreed
The new construction will be completed in 2013 and produce 100 million cubic meters of drinking water a year. Israel will then get 75% of domestic supplies from desalination.
Frustrated with your computer?
Israeli start-up Soluto claims to fix slow computers and crashing applications by removing unnecessary processes. It has won international IT awards and $10m of new funding.
Sewage-eating bacteria get bigger
Apologies if you’re reading this whilst eating. More funds are pouring into Israel’s Emefcy Ltd, which is building a fuel cell that uses bacteria to break down waste in water.
He nose, you know!
Prof Abraham Tamir of Ben Gurion University has categorised the shape of the Caucasian nose into 14 types. BGU students can pick his course on the interaction between art and science.
Warning kids of Internet dangers
Rather than blowing the whistle to parents, Israeli company, Sensegon, has developed ‘Kangaroo’, to detect and alert the child to a potentially dangerous Internet relationship.
The right chemistry
Israel Technion’s Prof Yitzhak Apeloig has been awarded the German Order of Merit for building German-Israeli scientific relations.
Is it alive?
The robots of Israel Technion scientists make tracks on this video.
A sporting chance
Keren Shahar, a doctoral student at Tel Aviv University, has proved that participation in sports is good for a child’s cognitive, emotional and behavioral well-being.