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Nobel Prize in Physics 2024: Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks

The prize will be awarded to two researchers from the USA and Canada for the development of artificial neural networks.

The Scientists Massacred in Their Home

Acclaimed physicist Sergey Gredeskul and his wife Victoria, also a physicist, immigrated to Israel from Ukraine. Sergey was once a leading figure in the theoretical field of disordered systems. Their rich world of knowledge and culture was abruptly cut short when Hamas terrorists brutally murdered them in their home in Ofakim, southern Israel, on the morning of October 7, 2023.

calendar 7.10.2024
reading-time 15 minutes

The Neighboring Planet That Was Finally Discovered

After years of searching, researchers have confirmed the existence of a small planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, one of our closest stellar neighbors.

calendar 3.10.2024
reading-time 4 minutes

How Do Bunker-Buster Bombs Work?

How can a bomb penetrate a layer of concrete or burrow deep into the ground before detonating? It involves a combination of advanced physics, some chemistry, and quite a bit of technology.

calendar 30.9.2024
reading-time 7 minutes

Doritos in Space and Water on the Moon: This Week in Space

A successful conclusion to the pioneering private mission, promising radiation data from Artemis 1, evidence of water on the Moon, and plans for a lunar communication network. This Week in Space

calendar 25.9.2024
reading-time 8 minutes

Radiation Protection en Route to the Moon

Radiation measurements from the Artemis 1 mission revealed that the Orion spacecraft provided effective radiation protection, potentially enabling even a mission to Mars. A follow-up article on the Israeli contribution to the experiment is forthcoming.

calendar 23.9.2024
reading-time 5 minutes

Competitive Cycling – What’s The Most Efficient Way To Ride?

Standing or sitting? Cyclist body position during sprints could be key to success

calendar 22.8.2024
reading-time 5 minutes

Things That Happen During Flights

The environmental conditions in the sky are responsible for quite a few strange phenomena in planes

calendar 22.8.2024
reading-time 7 minutes

Why is the Night Sky Dark?

If the universe is infinite and filled with shining stars, we might expect a continuously bright sky. Why then is it dark at night?

calendar 8.8.2024
reading-time 6 minutes

Day of the Bomb: Humanity’s Survival After Nuclear War

Could a global nuclear war lead to human extinction? Probably not.

calendar 8.8.2024
reading-time 8 minutes

Farewell to the Israeli Environmental Satellite: This Week in Space

Israeli environmental satellite ends operations, SpaceX back in action, Boeing delayed, and an upcoming nova event.

calendar 6.8.2024
reading-time 10 minutes

The 3-Body Problem And Other Scientific Questions

What is the real science underlying the physical concepts in the popular Netflix show?

calendar 3.8.2024
reading-time 10 minutes

Ancient Star Catalogs: Mapping the Skies

Over two thousand years ago astronomers already began to systematically map stars

calendar 27.7.2024
reading-time 8 minutes

2024 Wolf Prize: Blindness Treatment, Encryption and Plant Cloning

The prestigious prize will honor breakthroughs in vision restoration, cosmology, information encryption, and crop yield.

calendar 9.7.2024
reading-time 11 minutes

Quantum Insights: From Thought Experiment to Reality

Physicists show quantum effect by Israeli scientists works in classical reality

calendar 30.6.2024
reading-time 7 minutes

From the Negev to the Artemis Program: This Week in Space

The space accelerator at Mitzpe Ramon, Boeing stuck in space, a black hole awakens, and space Lego.

calendar 27.6.2024
reading-time 7 minutes

What Color Is the Sun?

White, yellow, or maybe even black? Simple questions to physicists often yield complex answers.

calendar 11.6.2024
reading-time 5 minutes

Earth’s Twin Planet: This Week in Space

Sample collection from the far side of the moon, Boeing launches a leaky spacecraft, and a particularly intriguing planet is found.

calendar 6.6.2024
reading-time 6 minutes

Colossal Collision at the Dawn of the Universe: This Week in Space

Black holes, Negev Space Accelerator, space suits, lunar training, and stellar archaeology.

calendar 22.5.2024
reading-time 9 minutes

The World Within The World – The Standard Model of Particle Physics

What is everything made of? The Standard Model of Particle Physics stands as one of the most comprehensive theories in physics.

calendar 16.5.2024
reading-time 10 minutes

Falling into a Black Hole – This Week in Space

A Unique NASA simulation, Boeing delay, Chinese spacecraft in lunar orbit and a lost and found satellite.

calendar 15.5.2024
reading-time 7 minutes

My Life As A Higgs Boson

WIS Physicist Eilam Gross, one of the researchers involved in the discovery of the Higgs boson, with parting words for the particle’s predictor

calendar 9.5.2024
reading-time 10 minutes

NASA Withdraws from Mars: This Week in Space

Salvaging Mars samples, Boeing to the ISS, Venus’s atmospheric emissions, and a nearby stellar black hole.

calendar 25.4.2024
reading-time 7 minutes

Amidst the Stars, an Invisible Wave

New findings reveal that the “Radcliffe Wave,” a huge galactic formation, moves in a wave-like manner

calendar 18.4.2024
reading-time 4 minutes