Author has Einstein’s brain on the brain Benyamin Cohen, who penned a new book on the Jewish genius, told JNS about how Einstein was the classic absent-minded professor, had his brain stolen, was offered the Israeli presidency and who ... snored. Alan Zeitlin July 6, 2023
Led by Tel Aviv University researchers, spaceship ‘Gaia’ identifies two new planets “[They] were discovered due to the fact that they partially hide their suns every time they complete an orbit and thus cause a cyclical drop in the intensity of the light reaching us from that distant sun,” says doctoral student Aviad Panahi. July 12, 2022
Tel Aviv University launches ‘Impossible Object’ sculpture to International Space Station The liquid’s three-dimensional form doesn’t get its shape from a vessel and cannot exist on Earth, only in outer space in the absence of gravity. April 6, 2022
San Diego Jewish Academy launches high-altitude weather balloon 90,000 feet The physics class will analyze data from the flight, including GPS positioning, altitude, flight time, temperature and humidity levels. Feb. 4, 2022
Annual Physics Olympiad in Jerusalem cultivates ‘next generation of scientists’ “The developments that gave Israel prestige in areas such as defense, health and green energy were created by engineers who studied physics at the onset of their careers,” said Benni Milgrom, academic coordinator of the Olympiad. Jan. 13, 2022
New president of Technion seeks ‘soft sciences’ to meld with Israeli high-tech Uri Sivan is positioning the world-renowned university to meet 21st-century challenges in human health, energy, environmental sustainability, education and advanced manufacturing. Carin M. Smilk Feb. 7, 2020
Common zip software can calculate complex physical quantity called entropy “A high school student used our concept to calculate the entropy of a complex physical system: the XY model,” says Professor Roy Beck. “Although this is considered a challenging problem with regard to entropy, the student accomplished it with very little guidance.” Dec. 6, 2019
Physics Olympiad in Jerusalem spotlights religious scientists of the future As part of the competition, male students at the Lev Campus and women at the Tal Campus solved university-level physics challenges. March 15, 2019
Israeli, U.S. astronomers may have uncovered proof of mysterious ‘dark matter’ “Dark matter is the key to unlocking the mystery of what the universe is made of,” said Professor Rennan Barkana, head of the department of astrophysics at Tel Aviv University’s School of Physics and Astronomy. Feb. 28, 2018
