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Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine. Credit: Courtesy.

Tel Aviv University scientists develop rapid melanoma diagnosis technology

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Innovative technology developed at Tel Aviv University will make it possible to automatically and immediately diagnose the life-threatening skin-cancer melanoma, a university spokesperson announced this week. The new optical technology allows lesions to be diagnosed rapidly in...
COVID-19 vaccines at a vaccination center in Tzfat on Feb. 14, 2021. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Study: UK coronavirus variant 45 percent more contagious than original

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The British variant of the COVID-19 virus is 45 percent more contagious than the original strain, a recent study from Tel Aviv University shows. The researchers analyzed data from some 300,000 polymerase chain reaction (PCR)...
A locust’s ear integrated into a technological system to allow a robot to hear. Photo courtesy of Tel Aviv University

In tech first, robot uses dead locust’s ear to hear

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In a scientific breakthrough, Israeli researchers have for the first time succeeded in using a locust ear as a robot’s sensor. The result: a robot that moves forward when you clap once and back when...
Illustration of a black hole. Credit: REDPIXEL.PL/Shutterstock.

Radio emissions from galaxy challenge black hole theories, say Israeli scientists

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Israeli scientists said in research published on Monday that they intercepted radio emissions that may challenge the assumptions of how black holes behave. As part of the research, which was published by the peer-reviewed journal Nature Astronomy, physicist Assaf Horesh of...
The TAU-SAT1 nanosatellite, which is approximately the size of a shoebox and weighs less than six pounds. Credit: Tel Aviv University.

Israeli nanosatellite hitches ride on NASA rocket to International Space Station

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A nanosatellite from Tel Aviv University will begin its travel to the International Space Station when it is launched from Wallops Island, Va., on a NASA resupply spacecraft on Saturday. The TAU-SAT1 nanosatellite, which is approximately...
Former President Donald Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, listen as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci delivers remarks during a coronavirus update briefing on April 16, 2020, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House. Credit: Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks.

Dr. Fauci among seven laureates of 2021 Dan David Prize honoring public health

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The Dan David Prize announced on Monday that the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has been named a recipient of the award for 2021, along with...
Wool fibers dyed with Royal Purple, dating to approximately 1,000 BCE, found in the Timna Valley in southern Israel. Photo by Dafna Gazit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

3,000-year-old fragments of cloth dyed with Royal Purple found in Israel

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In a groundbreaking discovery, Israeli archaeologists have recovered scraps of fabric dyed in royal purple, also known as true purple, dating back to the era of the biblical King David. The remnants of woven fabric,...
A worker from the education field receives a COIVID-19 vaccine injection at a Maccabi vaccination center in Modi'in on Jan. 12, 2021. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.

Israeli virus experts: ‘We may need vaccine updates every year or two’

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In the coming years, pharmaceutical corporations will likely need to launch updated versions of their coronavirus vaccines every year or two years, though this task should not present any special challenges for them, leading...
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Tel Aviv University develops, builds and plans to launch small satellite into orbit

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The TAU-SAT1 nanosatellite is currently undergoing pre-flight testing at the Japanese space agency JAXA prior to a planned launch by NASA in the first quarter of 2021. About the size of a shoebox, it was...
Professor Hadas Mamane at her lab at Tel Aviv University. Photo by Dr. Vered Cohen Yaniv/Courtesy of Israel21c.

Israeli scientists develop hand sanitizer from waste

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Hand sanitizers—once the preserve of nurses, mothers and the uber-clean—have now become a ubiquitous accessory found in purses, cars, businesses and offices worldwide. But the surge in demand as the global coronavirus pandemic rages for...