Foods high in carbohydrates — like white bread — can be devastating to the health of your heart. Now a Tel Aviv University researcher can watch the damage as it happens.

Desert Pavement in the Rub’ al-Khali. Scale cube measures 1cm on a sidePhoto by Meteorite Recon on Wikimedia Commons. Used under Creative Commons License. Newspapers, among them the New York Daily News, reported today based on a report on LiveScience that scientists in the Negev have discovered the Earth’s oldest surface. What’s that, you say? [...]

The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) this week brings us the story of SCP Vitalife, a venture-capital firm that invests in American and Israeli medical technologies. Thus far, it’s been pretty successful helping companies get off the ground. For example, one of its biggest successes has been MediGuide, which developed a method to track the [...]

Picture: Buckminsterfullerene C60, aka the “buckyball,” one focus of nanotechnology researchBy Michael Stroeck at Wikimedia Commons. Used under GNU License. NanoIsrael 2009, Israel’s first ever conference on nanotechnology, took place yesterday and today in Jerusalem. Organizers, among them the Israel National Nanotechnology Initiative, wanted an opportunity to highlight the amazing advances being made in the [...]

Photo: Microsoft Israel, HaifaDavid Shay on Wikimedia Commons. Used under Creative Commons license A few weeks ago, the Economist published a special report on entrepreneurship in a few select countries–including Israel. As the article notes, Israel owes a lot to American companies who began research operation in the country, but Israeli start-ups are now all [...]

Photo: Getty Images One of the most important fields of research these days is finding renewable forms of energy. Israel has been a leader in this field for many years, with many innovations especially in generating solar energy. So when the US Government wanted to find partners in alternative energy research, it figured Israel would [...]

Photo:Getty Images To note tomorrow’s celebration of love on Valentine’s Day, CNN World Report is featuring a piece on several Israeli scientists working on enhancing the sensory experience of giving flowers. They’re hoping to improve the scent of flowers, those perennial gift of affection, so that they smell as nice as they look. This story [...]

Photo: Wikimedia Commons With today marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, we thought it would be fitting to note the impact his theory of evolution has had on research in Israel. Of course, the theory of evolution underlies much biology research today, but this is, after all, a blog exploring the latest in [...]

We hadn’t heard much of Oren Lavie either until watching the YouTube video above (of his song “Her Morning Elegance,” which has apparently been used in a Chevy commercial), which we think is just really pretty cool. And so is the music. In the spirit of edification, we decided to do some research for you. [...]

Photo: Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority The ongoing excavations in the City of David continue to provide a wealth of treasures. We told you last month about a cache of gold coins found in Jerusalem. Now the same site has brought forth another find: A marble bust of a bearded man, believed the be the [...]