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The Plumbers’ Secret Code

Write a secret message that only you can read, using just some magic tape

calendar 21.3.2020
reading-time 4 minutes

A New World Order

150 years since the creation of the periodic table, and 185 since the birth of its creator, Dmitri Mendeleev

calendar 28.1.2020
reading-time 14 minutes

‘Divorcing’ Materials – Separation Methods in Science, Industry, and at Home

Separation methods; refining crude oil, desalinating water, and extracting cellular DNA

calendar 27.1.2020
reading-time 6 minutes

What Is the Origin of the Elements?

There are a little over one hundred elements in the universe. How were they created?

calendar 27.1.2020
reading-time 3 minutes

Heat, Noodles, and Olive Oil – the Chemistry of the Kugel

The unique taste of the Jewish food originates in a series of chemical reactions

calendar 12.11.2019
reading-time 5 minutes

Endangered Elements

Some of the elements that make up our world may disappear very soon

calendar 19.4.2019
reading-time 5 minutes

The Satiety Hormone and Stochastic Processes: The 2019 Wolf Prize

Medicine: discoverer of the “satiety hormone”. Architecture: Moshe Safdie, who designed the Yad Vashem Museum

calendar 24.1.2019
reading-time 6 minutes

The Chemist Who Arose from the Ashes

Marking 31 years since the death of Primo Levi, an Auschwitz survivor who became one of the most prominent Holocaust writers

calendar 11.4.2018
reading-time 11 minutes

Like Parents, Like Daughter

The 119th birthday of Irène Joliot-Curie, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering induced radioactivity

calendar 27.12.2017
reading-time 5 minutes

Ada Yonath – Unraveling the Secrets of Life’s Building Blocks

Ada Yonath solved the structure of the cell’s protein factory and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

calendar 28.11.2017
reading-time 6 minutes

The Wondrous Story of Chocolate

The science behind chocolate and chocolate making

calendar 9.4.2017
reading-time 10 minutes

Why are Cigarettes More Addictive Nowadays?‎

Do substances added to cigarettes ‎make them more addictive?

calendar 24.11.2016
reading-time 7 minutes

The Scientific Context of the Balfour Declaration

The scientific discovery that generated a great achievement for the Zionist movement

calendar 7.11.2016
reading-time 8 minutes

The Taxman who Reinvented Chemistry

273rd birthday of Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, the ‎Renaissance man who ‎institutionalized chemistry as a scientific discipline

calendar 16.9.2016
reading-time 7 minutes

Proteins

In terms of their chemistry, proteins are chains of amino acids. Proteins are an important ingredient in our diet, and are used by the body to build itself.

calendar 25.6.2011
reading-time 1 minutes

The Five Basic Chemical Reactions

calendar 24.6.2011
reading-time 3 minutes