Ministry of Science and ICT and NST unveil post-PBS missions for government research institutes by 2026
New mission-oriented R&D roadmap, portfolio, and governance reforms to be finalized and announced within the year
Schools shouldn’t ban tech. They should teach kids to control it
Kids need screen-time limits and lessons in the logic behind computers.
A 300,000-year-old jawbone from China refuses to fit neatly into the human family tree — and a reconstructed million-year-old skull is now suggesting our major ancestral branches split hundreds of thousands of years earlier than we thought
The fossil record is forcing scientists to rewrite when and where human ancestry split into separate branches, upending decades of assumptions about our evolutionary path.
Humpback whales can sing for up to 16 hours without stopping, and scientists have found their songs are synchronized with every dive — different themes line up with the descent, the deep-water phase and the climb back to the surface
The whales aren’t just singing—they’re composing underwater symphonies that match the architecture of their own bodies in motion, revealing a hidden layer of sophistication in one of nature’s most mesmerizing performances.
Eyal Golan’s ‘Science Fiction’ is Israel’s most played song of the year
Eyal Golan, Sarit Hadad and Avi Ohayon led ACUM’s annual rankings of Israel’s most played songs, performers, songwriters and composers. Eyal Golan’s “Mada Bidyoni” (“Science Fiction”) was the most-pla…
Israel records one of OECD’s steepest declines in reading, math and science scores
Israeli 15-year-olds lost 38 points in reading, 25 in math and 23 in science since 2022, leaving the country below the OECD average in every field; nearly 3 in 10 now lack basic proficiency across all three
UK pupils rank highly again in international reading, maths and science tests
But the Pisa test scores vary significantly between England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
UK pupils rank highly in international reading, maths and science tests
But the Pisa test scores vary significantly between England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
England’s teenagers outperform peers in most countries in maths, reading and science
OECD test sees results dip in almost all member nations and warns of ‘digital distractions’ eroding academic skills
25 years ago, a NASA astronaut captured this haunting photo of the 9/11 attacks
During the Sept. 11 attacks, NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson — the only American not on Earth at the time — snapped a “sobering” shot of smoke pouring across New York City as the second tower fell.