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Illustrative image: neurons inside the human brain (onimate via iStock by Getty Images)
June 10, 2023, 2:30 pm
New Israeli study shows link between autism and nitric oxide levels in brain neurons
Peer-reviewed research at Hebrew University’s Pharmacy School could lead to drug treatments for people with autism and other neurological conditions
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Pacific Shrimp. (PilarMeca, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
June 1, 2023, 1:35 am
Israeli research finds cleaning shrimps’ stripes key to better whitening agents
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev scientists discover that crustaceans’ stripes are made of one of the thinnest and most efficient white materials in nature
By Sue Surkes
Dr. Aviad Scheinin, director of the Marine Apex Predator Lab at the Morris Kahn Marine Research Station at the Haifa University Charny School of Marine Sciences, looks for marine mammals during the Israel-UK survey of Israel's economic waters, in Spring 2022. (Elad Aybes, Greenpeace Israel)
May 29, 2023, 8:14 pm
New findings on deep sea whales, dolphins prompt call to stop Israel’s search for gas
First extensive exploration of Israel’s deep-sea economic waters by Israeli-UK team identifies two species of threatened whales that are sensitive to underwater noise
By Sue Surkes
An infected black sea urchin dying in the Mediterranean Sea, exhibiting typical symptoms of an exposed skeleton and lost tissue and spines. (Konstantinos Kalaentzis)
May 24, 2023, 9:51 am
Epidemic wipes out all Eilat Bay urchins; coral reefs face suffocation by algae
Experts rush to understand cause of mass die-offs in Red Sea of keystone species that feeds on algae, as pathogenic parasite spreads quickly, killing the creatures within 48 hours
By Sue Surkes
Dr. Lalita Ramakrishnan, seen here with tanks of zebrafish, is a professor of microbiology at Cambridge University focused on tuberculosis. (Courtesy of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)
May 6, 2023, 3:22 pm
Study: Gaucher disease, common among Ashkenazi Jews, protects against tuberculosis
Cambridge University team discovers that specific cellular-level lipids that accumulate in the genetic disease attack and kill deadly TB bacterium, hope to develop new treatment
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Tomatoes were among the plants tested for sound by Tel Aviv University researchers. (David Besa, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)
March 30, 2023, 8:06 pm
In groundbreaking research, Tel Aviv U team records plants ‘talking’ for first time
Scientists discover clicking sounds, which humans can’t hear and which differ based on species and type of stress; wonder what uses other plants, animals make of the information
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative image: cancer cells against a backdrop of DNA (Mohammed Haneefa Nizamudeen via iStock by Getty Images)
March 27, 2023, 1:38 pm
Hebrew University researchers discover how pancreatic cancer spreads through body
Study published in Nature holds out hope for patients by pointing to an existing drug that could undergo trials for use in fighting metastases
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The sun over forests near Jerusalem on September 2, 2021. (Nati Shohat/ Flash90)
March 20, 2023, 9:46 pm
Climate change-induced heat stress may claim 330 Israeli lives per summer by 2100
Researchers warn that heat waves in the Eastern Mediterranean likely to occur seven times more often and last three times longer by century’s end
By Sue Surkes
Chaim Grade and his wife Inna Hecker Grade, shown in the United States in 1978. The two met in Moscow in 1945. (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research via JTA)
February 26, 2023, 2:17 am
Writer Chaim Grade’s archive digitized: A Yiddish treasure with a dramatic backstory
YIVO Institute and National Library of Israel make renowned author’s papers available online after they were locked away by his widow for decades, inaccessible to researchers
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
From L-R President Isaac Herzog, MK Simcha Rothman, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, National Unity leader Benny Gantz (Flash 90)
February 15, 2023, 1:33 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 15: Can Herzog change the course of judicial reform?
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur discusses the president’s efforts to mediate the contested plan; health and science writer Nathan Jeffay looks at the results of 3 new studies
By ToI Staff
Prof. Israel Finkelstein speaks at a seminar launching the collaboration between the University of Haifa School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures and the Technion at the Technion in Haifa on January 18, 2023. (Rami Slush/Technion). 
January 20, 2023, 3:28 am
Israel’s Technion, U of Haifa announce game-changing microarchaeology collaboration
With excavators in need of cutting-edge science and advanced lab equipment to study finds on a molecular level, academics say the partnership will benefit both institutions
By Melanie Lidman
A medical clown from Dream Doctors, an Israeli nonprofit that was observed in new peer-reviewed research on medical clowning (courtesy of Dream Doctors)
January 17, 2023, 5:41 pm
Science of silliness: Israeli study deconstructs medical clowning so MDs use it more
Research is first to empirically map clowns’ skills, authors say, claiming it will help doctors understand their work and better integrate it into treatment
By Nathan Jeffay
The Golda hens when they were chicks. (Ori Peretz)
December 13, 2022, 4:36 pm
In first, Israeli scientists program hens to lay eggs that carry only female chicks
Gene editing technology developed by Volcani Center scientists, who say it has potential to stop ‘devastating’ destruction of 7 billion unwanted male chicks globally each year
By Sue Surkes
Farmers block the Bilu Junction as part of protests around the country against the finance and agriculture ministries plan to open up the fruit and vegetable market for import, on July 29, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
November 29, 2022, 2:52 pm
Allowing imports of fruit and vegetables likely to endanger food security – report
Likely suppliers Turkey, Egypt, Jordan less prepared for climate change, and potentially unstable and unreliable, says Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research
By Sue Surkes
An undated photo of excavation work at the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov site near the Jordan River in northern Israel. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)
November 14, 2022, 10:46 pm
Fish teeth found near Jordan River yield world’s earliest evidence of cooking
Israel-led team of researchers find that some 780,000 years ago, prehistoric humans used sophisticated methods to cook huge fish from Hula Lake, in what is now northern Israel
By Michael Bachner
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