Scientific American has announced the winners of this years’ SciAm 50, the magazine’s annual award celebrating “visionaries from the worlds of research, industry and politics whose recent accomplishments point toward a brighter technological future for everyone” (hat tip: Scott). This year’s award winners includes 3 professors from Tel Aviv University: Itay Baruchi and Eshel Ben-Jacob [...]
Extraordinary: RNPS PICTURES OF THE YEAR – A crocodile at a zoo in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung holds the forearm of a zoo veterinarian in between its teeth, April 11, 2007. The crocodile bit off the arm of the zoo veterinarian treating it, an official reported. REUTERS/Frank Lin (TAIWAN) I think those who [...]
News from across the border: An Egyptian man has been charged with fatally stabbing his wife on their wedding night when he decided she was not a virgin. Ibrahim Ali and Hoda Salem were married in the village of Al-Quba in the Nile Delta. On their wedding night, residents heard Salem screaming and found her [...]
A Hamas operative was killed Tuesday when an IAF aircraft fired a missile at a Hamas post in southern Gaza, officials from the group said….The latest airstrike came after ten Islamic Jihad operatives were killed overnight Monday and early Tuesday as the IDF stepped up its operations against terrorists in the Gaza Strip and the [...]
