Chemistry

Former Technion president Professor Yitzhak Apeloig passes away aged 81

"Despite national and global crises, his years in office were marked by exceptional academic development," said the current Technion President Prof. Uri Sivan.

Professor Yitzhak Apeloig.
A mushroom cloud rises above Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands in 1946 handout provided by US Library of Congress; illustrative.

"Extreme, transient conditions": Never-before-seen material found in remnants of nuclear detonation

PHD STUDENT Yulia Melnik-Kesler.

Early warning system for undrinkable wine glows in the dark

 Israel's National Chemistry Team brought home two gold and two silver medals, at the United Arab Emirates-based International Chemistry Olympiad.

Gold and Silver for Israel: Nation's chemistry team dominates international olympiad


Nobel Prize accidentally reveals chemistry prize winners ahead of time

The award-giving institute said the decision was still hours away.

 A view of a screen inside the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, where the Nobel Prize in Chemistry is announced, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 4, 2023

Israeli researchers develop new process for creating custom enzymes -study

Enzymes that are modified using this process, called the CADENZ Method, could have long-reaching impacts.

An illustration showing four modular enzyme fragments (highlighted) that Weizmann Institute’s CADENZ method can combine to generate active enzymes at a hitherto unseen rate

Israel develops cutting edge medication technology

The research was led by doctoral student Itai Katzir and supervised by Dr. Ayala Lampel from TAU’s Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research at the Wise Faculty of Life Sciences.

 Efficient encapsulation of molecules – a major technological challenge – makes possible a high loading capacity of molecules.

Technion researchers discover unique peptides with anti-cancer potential

In recent years, Technion researchers have developed a new approach to influencing the ubiquitin mechanisms.

 Dr. Nabieh Ayoub

Israeli researchers alter magnetic properties of minerals - study

The technique was developed by a team from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

Scanning electron microscope images of manganese carbonate crystals, without (a) amino acids and with (b) amino acids incorporated in the crystal. Scale bar: 200 nanometers.

Could we live on Saturn's moon? Research says maybe - study

Enceladus has an ice-covered water ocean that erupts into space, forming a plume. The researchers analyzed samples as the plumes erupted from cracks in the icy surface. 

A montage of Saturn and its moons as captured by the Voyager 1 probe

Corrosion has turned the Alhambra’s decorative gold leaf purple - study

The Alhambra, now a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) world heritage site, is a fortress and palace built in the 13th century under the Islamic rule of Spain.

Dawn on Charles V palace in Alhambra, Granada, Spain.

DNA helps scientists engineer structures at the molecular level

The new research could open the door to revolutionary breakthroughs in faster and more energy efficient technologies.

A DNA double helix is seen in an undated artist's illustration released by the National Human Genome Research Institute to Reuters on May 15, 2012.

Weizmann Institute professor becomes first Israeli to win prestigious Kavli award

Prof. Sagiv secured this year’s Nanoscience prize for his team's pioneering work on self-assembling monolayers on solid substrates within the field of nanochemistry.

 Prof. Jacob Sagiv of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Can studying DNA like language lead to new breakthroughs? - study

DNA is represented by groups of letters, so Ben Gurion University biochemist Dr. Barak Akabayov and his team aimed to learn new information by studying the letter sequences linguistically.

Dr. Barak Akabayov, computational biochemist at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, and the Data Science Research Center at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev