The system lets users cook dinner with the gas produced from lunch’s leftovers, and also provides high-quality fertilizer for the garden. A bio-digester from Israel’s HomeBiogas is now converting organic waste into clean renewable energy at the Buvundya Orphanage in Uganda, thanks to a donor who bought the system. “These children lit up when they discovered the HomeBiogas … [Read more...]
Archives for 2016
Children Finally Have Clean Water at School
January 6, 2016 by
Thanks to a new system designed by Israeli students, more than 600 kids in a rural Ethiopian village can safely drink and wash during the school day. Volunteers from the Engineers without Borders (EwB) chapter at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology joined up with a rural community in northern Ethiopia to design and build a safe drinking-water system for their … [Read more...]
Israeli Team IDs Proteins Linked To Memory Loss
January 4, 2016 by
A new study by University of Haifa scientists has identified activity of brain proteins associated with memory impairments in Alzheimer’s disease, and has also found that “repairing” this activity leads to an improvement in memory. “In the study we found that the nerve cells in the mouse models of Alzheimer’s face a type of metabolic stress. When a cell faces such metabolic … [Read more...]
