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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: Metal-Organic Frameworks

The prize will be awarded to three researchers who developed methods for creating strong and stable porous frameworks with many applications in engineering and research.

calendar 9.10.2025
reading-time 7 minutes

Understanding Uranium Enrichment

What is uranium enrichment? How is it done? Why is it so technically complex — and why is it crucial for both nuclear energy and weapons?

calendar 22.6.2025
reading-time 25 minutes

The Chemist Who Saved a Life During the Holocaust

Fritz Strassmann, who took part in one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century, risked his life to save a Jewish woman.

calendar 2.5.2025
reading-time 9 minutes

Strange Electrons and Plant Immunity: The 2025 Wolf Prizes

The prestigious Israeli prize this year will honor groundbreaking achievements in physics, antiviral research, chemical catalysis, discoveries in plant immunity, and architectural innovation in China.

calendar 15.3.2025
reading-time 12 minutes

Sustainable Style: The Future of Recycled Fashion

A groundbreaking chemical processing technique converts fabrics into reusable molecules, turning discarded garments into sustainable fashion opportunities.

calendar 15.2.2025
reading-time 4 minutes

Fritz Haber: The War Criminal Who Helped Prevent Global Hunger

Marking 90 years since Fritz Haber’s death, the scientist who helped prevent world hunger with a method for producing synthetic fertilizers but also spearheaded chemical warfare for Germany in World War I.

calendar 30.1.2025
reading-time 10 minutes

Nobel Prizes 2024 – Celebrating Artificial Intelligence

This year’s Nobel Prizes underscore the transformative impact of the artificial intelligence revolution currently underway, with notable connections to the achievements recognized in physics and chemistry.

Rediscovering an Extinct Biochemical Reaction

A new study has identified an inorganic molecule that likely played a significant role in many of the processes that shaped life as we know it today.

calendar 5.12.2024
reading-time 5 minutes

From Science to Statehood: Celebrating Chaim Weizmann’s 150th Birthday

Israel’s first president was not only a statesman but also the chemist who discovered how to harness bacteria to produce acetone. Chaim Weizmann skillfully leveraged his scientific achievements and prestige to advance the founding of the State of Israel.

calendar 28.11.2024
reading-time 6 minutes

Life Through The Looking Glass – Exploring Chirality in Nature

Amino acids exist in two mirror-image forms, but only one form serves as the foundation for the building blocks of life. A new study seeks to uncover how this preference emerged.

calendar 27.10.2024
reading-time 7 minutes

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024: Protein Structure Prediction and Design

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognizes three researchers who have developed groundbreaking tools for predicting and designing the three-dimensional structures of proteins.

calendar 9.10.2024
reading-time 9 minutes

What Are the Components of the Atmosphere?

The five layers of the atmosphere and their gas composition are essential to our existence, just like the air we breathe.

calendar 19.9.2024
reading-time 5 minutes

Self-Healing Peptide Glass

Israeli researchers have developed a material that closely resembles glass, with particularly promising properties.

calendar 28.8.2024
reading-time 5 minutes

The Science Behind Basic Cleaning Products

How does soap work? Why can’t we mix bleach with cleaners products? What’s the story behind removing scale?

calendar 11.7.2024
reading-time 10 minutes

Diving Deep: Shower Science

How can we ensure our skin and hair stay healthy during bathing?

calendar 23.6.2024
reading-time 6 minutes

Who Turned My Plastic Yellow?

A new study has shown that sunlight radiation alters the chemical properties of polyethylene, a component of many plastics

calendar 16.12.2023
reading-time 3 minutes

A Pioneer of Israeli Science

Pioneering Israeli Science: The Remarkable Journey of Joshua Jortner

calendar 23.11.2023
reading-time 10 minutes

Mulled Wine for Chilly Nights

Wine, spices, fruit, nature and science come together in a piping hot celebration of flavors

calendar 21.11.2023
reading-time 7 minutes

Making Muscles: Producing Meat Without Harming Animals

What is cultivated meat production and what are its environmental consequences?

calendar 9.11.2023
reading-time 11 minutes

The Art of Italian Pasta Making

Understanding Wheat Protein – Gluten – and its Culinary Magic

calendar 2.11.2023
reading-time 7 minutes

2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Quantum Dots

The prize will be awarded to three innovators in electronic security system

calendar 8.10.2023
reading-time 6 minutes

Should You Avoid Boiling Water Twice?

Does re-boiling water really increase the concentrations of harmful substances?

calendar 31.8.2023
reading-time 4 minutes

Sealing the Hole in the Sky – Reversing Ozone Depletion

How did we manage to curb ozone depletion within just a few decades and what can this teach us?

calendar 3.8.2023
reading-time 11 minutes

The Scent of the Sea

Which substances are responsible for the wonderful, fresh smell of the sea? You may be surprised to discover that they’re mainly by-products of decay processes and from the digestive systems of fish

calendar 3.8.2023
reading-time 5 minutes