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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

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Prof Charlotte Vogt (third from left) and researchers at the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology in the northern city of Haifa. Or Mayraz is first left. (Nitzan Zohar).
Technion startup aims to keep coastal industry systems clean while capturing CO₂
By Sue Surkes
MOZAICO uses electrochemistry rather than chemicals to stop scale buildup in coastal cooling systems, converting CO2 into marketable calcium carbonate
A house for sale in Caesarea, January 2023. (Arena Properties Caesarea/Rena Roberman)
Homeowners opt for free real estate listings even when they lose money, says new study
By Jennifer Korn
Species of Acropora corals sampled in the Gulf of Eilat, southern Israel, for the pharmaceutical research. (Noa Shenkar)
September 24, 2024, 9:34 pm
Researchers raise concerns as medical compounds found in Eilat coral samples
Tel Aviv University team says trace pharmaceuticals in corals are compounding threats to marine ecosystems from climate change, pollution, overfishing
By Sue Surkes
Prof Charlotte Vogt (third from left) and researchers at the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology in the northern city of Haifa. Or Mayraz is first left. (Nitzan Zohar).
September 22, 2024, 2:26 pm
Technion startup aims to keep coastal industry systems clean while capturing CO₂
MOZAICO uses electrochemistry rather than chemicals to stop scale buildup in coastal cooling systems, converting CO2 into marketable calcium carbonate
By Sue Surkes
Dr. Sarah Sallon, director of the Louis Borick Natural Medicine Research Center at the Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem, with 'Sheba' in 2010. (Guy Eisner)
September 18, 2024, 4:29 pm
Tree grown from ancient mystery seed found in cave could be source of biblical balm
Identified as species of Commiphora, part of the frankincense and myrrh family, plant lacks fragrance but medical compound suggests possible link with Bible’s ‘tsori’
By Sue Surkes
An aging vulture wearing a GPS radio transmitter. (Tovale Solomon)
September 3, 2024, 11:25 am
While young vultures gad about, older ones prefer to stay home – study
Tel Aviv University research shows that aging vultures become less sociable
By Sue Surkes
This undated handout photo downloaded from the Symbio Wildlife Park's facebook page shows Pygmy marmosets at the Symbio Wildlife Park in Sydney.(MICK MARIC / SYMBIO WILDLIFE PARK / AFP)
August 30, 2024, 5:27 am
Marmosets use ‘vocal labels’ to identify one another, Israeli study finds
Hebrew University researchers find that monkey subset can recognize when calls are directed at them and are more likely to respond when addressed by their ‘name’
By Issam Ahmed
A house for sale in Caesarea, January 2023. (Arena Properties Caesarea/Rena Roberman)
August 30, 2024, 2:06 am
Homeowners opt for free real estate listings even when they lose money, says new study
In a new look at the ‘zero price effect,’ researchers from Tel Aviv University find that consumers gravitate towards an unpaid option, though it may be costlier in the long term
By Jennifer Korn
Volunteers involved with the flag repair project pose at Kulna, Yeruham, southern Israel, July 29, 2024. Racheli Schreiber heads Kulna's traditional arts and crafts program and is seated bottom right. Nirit Shalev-Khalifa is standing in the back row, second from right, holding a flag and one of the new storage bags. (Sarit Uziely)
August 25, 2024, 3:47 pm
Flag rescue project lets evacuated Kibbutz Be’eri open school year in customary style
With help from a Bedouin embroidery maven, displaced kibbutz continued traditional 1st grade flag parade with banners carried since 1952 in a ceremony at Dead Sea
By Sue Surkes
Illustration of the sunshade being developed by Cool Earth at the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, in northern Israel. (Youtube screenshot)
July 31, 2024, 9:57 pm
Israeli scientist proposes massive space sunshade to cut global temperatures by 1.5ºC
Yoram Rozen, head of Technion’s Space Research Institute, seeks $15 million to launch prototype; ‘If we can’t show that it can work technologically, then nobody else will do it”
By Sue Surkes
The National Institute of Oceanography in Haifa, northern Israel. (courtesy)
July 8, 2024, 6:35 am
At first marine climate confab, scientists paint worrying picture with few solutions
Academics cite rising water temps that weaken coral reefs and affect plankton, while invasive urchins strip rocks of food for fish; nature authorities push for awareness
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative photo of a baby chimpanzee and her human caregivers, at the Jerusalem Zoo, on March 29, 2007. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90
June 1, 2024, 7:51 am
TAU prize offers $10 million to quack code of animal communication
Annual contest seeks to stimulate the use of AI in animal language research with ‘the ultimate aim of interspecies communication’
By Gavriel Fiske
Swaths of sea urchin skeletons washed up on the shore. (Jean-Pascal Quod)
May 23, 2024, 8:15 pm
Deadly pathogen that wiped out Eilat’s sea urchins reaches Indian Ocean
Facing fears of global epidemic, Tel Aviv University scientists, who first identified local die-off and specific pathogen, are working with regional partners to understand more
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Micro algae samples used in research on June 11, 2020, in Tel Aviv. (Jack Guez/AFP)
April 29, 2024, 2:25 pm
Israeli researchers see major drop in international cooperation since Oct. 7
After nearly seven months without a plan, the Innovation, Science and Technology Ministry says it will form a panel to deal with the boycott led by academics in European countries
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Gefilte fish, a traditional Passover food. (Mushki Brichta , CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)
April 18, 2024, 2:39 pm
Researchers study how to keep our gefilte fish healthy
Hebrew University team finds that breeding disease-resistant carp can make aquaculture more sustainable and profitable, and even keep other fish healthier
By ToI Staff
Composite image showing, from left to right, Prof. David Kazhdan, Prof. Maren R. Niehoff and Prof. Nathan Lineal of the Hebrew University. (courtesy)
April 11, 2024, 1:15 pm
Fourteen Israeli professors awarded top EU research grants
Researchers from the Hebrew University, the Technion, Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute to each receive €2.5 million in funding from the European Research Council
By Gavriel Fiske
Haredi men who decided to join the military amid the war between Israel and Hamas, at the IDF recruiting offices in Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv, October 23, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
February 9, 2024, 7:22 am
After the October 7 cataclysm, has the Haredi attitude to serving in the IDF changed?
According to Dr. Eliezer Hayun, an expert in Haredi society who is himself ultra-Orthodox, change will happen, but it must come from the ground up – and the IDF must be prepared
By Sue Surkes
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