EducationDNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin the only woman named in GCSE science courseNew research from the University of Cambridge revealed a significant gender gap in Britain’s scientific educationBy Daisy Blakemore-Creedon2 min read
ScienceScience prodigy, 16, from Belgium heading to Israel to do university researchLaurent Simons was 15 when he got his PhD and he dreams of being able to extend human lifeBy Jamie Shapiro1 min read
ScienceVaping for just a few days is enough to damage lungs, say researchersSigns of lung stress persisted ten days after a five-day exposure period to e-cigarette fumes ended, a team at National Jewish Health has foundBy Katie Grant1 min read
ScienceScientists engineer immune cells to better fight cancer and virusesIn laboratory experiments on mice the modified cells produced substantially stronger immune responsesBy Melanie Swan1 min read
ScienceScientists develop £45 blood test that detects advanced lung cancer with 93 per cent accuracyThe low-cost blood test examines fragments of DNA circulating in the bloodstreamBy Melanie Swan1 min read
ScienceNobel Prize-winning scientist Ada Yonath, who helped pave way for advanced antibiotics, dies aged 87‘People called me a dreamer,’ the celebrated Israeli scientist once said of her groundbreaking workBy Melanie Swan1 min read
ScienceGrow your own milk: Israeli scientists engineer plants to create key dairy proteinThe team at Hebrew University worked out how to derive beta-casein, which gives cheese its melting properties, which they say could eradicate the need for industrialised livestock farmingBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read
Israeli start up develops ‘brain-decoding’ AI in hopes of treating Alzheimer’s disease and PTSDThe firm has trained its AI model, named Descartes, using 250,000 hours of EEG brain dataBy Mark Wood1 min read||August 12, 2026 12:12
Viagra could be medics’ secret weapon against breast cancer, Israeli research findsWhile the little blue pill is marketed as a gentleman’s bedroom aid, scientists as the Weizmann Institute found that it can also slow the rate at which aggressive cancers spreadBy John Jeffay3 min read||July 21, 2026 14:47
Visionary chemist Rudolph ‘Rudy’ A Marcus, dies aged 102Marcus won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and was just five days shy of his 103rd birthdayBy Siam Goorwich3 min read||July 21, 2026 11:57
Israeli scientists find parents smoking outside increase risk of nicotine addiction in childrenThe researchers also found that so-called ‘third-hand smoke’ carried into the home on clothing and hair can still impact the health of young childrenBy Dalia Zimmerman1 min read||July 20, 2026 15:18
Hearing loss hope after breakthrough by Israeli scientistsDiscovery raises possibility that damaged hair cells can be regrown – a process previously thought to be impossibleBy Daniel Ben-David2 min read||July 12, 2026 13:47
Men’s testosterone levels drop by 50% and household products could be to blame, say Israeli scientistsHebrew University team found that men’s average testosterone levels had halved over the past 50 yearsBy JC Reporter1 min read||July 8, 2026 12:09
Israeli scientists work out how cancer hijacks immune systemThe finding could eventually lead to new treatmentsBy Pesach Benson1 min read||July 5, 2026 10:59
Israeli scientists in ovarian cancer vaccine breakthroughNew discovery raises hope for treatment of disease that claims the lives of 4,000 women in UK each yearBy John Jeffay4 min read||June 3, 2026 10:29
Now that’s cracking: Israeli scientists invent the ‘safe peanut’Over time, the new peanut trains the immune system of people with the allergy to accept the foodBy John Jeffay2 min read||May 14, 2026 12:48
