Tag: Ben Gurion University

Pregnant women beware of traffic noise and air pollution!

As if expecting women don't have enough to worry about, a new scientific study indicates a direct correlation between traffic...

Dogs Detect Cancer Cells in Petri Dish

Could woman's best friend be the missing link in the diagnoses of aggressive breast cancer types? Researchers at Ben Gurion...

Sea of Galilee Reveals Mysterious Underwater Ancient Mound

Israeli archaeologists are baffled by a giant cone-shaped structure submerged beneath the waters of the Sea of Galilee. Twice the...

Dusting Off Solar Panels With an Electric Charge

Dubai is prone to frequent dust storms. A new solar panel dust particle remover made in Israel boosts power...

Indigenous Knowledge and Ancient Farmers at Avdat

Ancient farmers used indigenous knowledge to sustain communities at Avdat in the central Negev as many as seven thousand years ago. ...

NATO Science for Peace Supports Desalination Water Project Between Jordan and Israel

The NATO Science for Peace Program and the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) recently awarded grants to researchers...

BGU Makes Green Plan for Bedouin City of Rahat

As a geography Master's student at Beer Sheva's Ben-Gurion University, this semester I took a class in environmental law...

Looking for the Sustainable in Beer Sheva's Development Debate

While in the center of the country, the concern is to improve food quality, public transportation and vehicle efficiency,...

ZenithSolar – The Most Efficient Solar Energy Collector In The World?

(ZenithSolar's Jetson-style sunshine-collecting DPV –  concentrating photovoltaic – dishes in the Negev Desert) As the old saying goes: necessity is the...

Beer Sheva's Earth's Promise Offers an Alternative Spring Break

For those of you familiar with the typical American college student spring break, you know that it generally entails...

Cracks In The Earth A Danger For Global Warming

Israeli Researcher Finds Earth Cracks May Contribute to Global Warming “Fractures breathe, and this process has direct relevance to the...

Grassroots Beer Sheva NGO Makes the Earth a Promise

With everything going on over the past month, many of our thoughts have been turned towards the southern area...