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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 474

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Israelis exercise on the Tel Aviv beach boardwalk, during a nationwide COVID lockdown, February 3, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 3, 2023, 8:43 pm
Can 4 minutes a day save your life? New study touts benefits of even brief exercise
Hebrew University researcher says study showing short-burst intense physical activity can lower risk of cancer by up to 32% is proof ‘doing something is better than doing nothing’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Itamar Harel of the Silberman Institute of Life Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Courtesy of Itamar Harel)
July 20, 2023, 5:27 pm
Israeli scientists believe experiments reversing aging in fish could benefit humans
Hebrew University researchers genetically manipulate energy regulation in male African killifish, making them live longer and develop resistance to age-related conditions
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Placenta multinucleated cells (Moriyah Naama/Buganim Lab Hebrew University)
June 29, 2023, 8:10 pm
In first, Hebrew U. lab induces placenta cells, boosting pregnancy disorder research
Achievement will allow study of possible causes for placental insufficiency, which affects up to 15% of pregnancies and causes one in 100 pregnancies to end in miscarriage
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (left), receives the Champion of Global Human Health Award from Professor Yitshak Kreiss, director general of Sheba Medical Center, Washington, April 30, 2023. (Ron Sachs/CNP)
May 1, 2023, 4:51 pm
Sheba Medical Center presents Dr. Anthony Fauci with award for COVID cooperation
In one of his final acts as director of US infectious diseases institute, Fauci signed an agreement for joint research partnership utilizing Sheba’s unique blood sample bank
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Ferula drudeana. (Wikimedia Creative Commons)
September 27, 2022, 11:50 am
Ancient ‘miracle plant,’ believed extinct, said rediscovered in Turkey
Turkish prof. says ferula drudeana, found growing on Mt. Hasan in Anatolia, is ancient silphion — a seasoning, aphrodisiac, medicine, and contraceptive — not seen for 2,000 years
By Tobias Siegal
Glowing corals. (Tel Aviv University)
July 18, 2022, 2:25 pm
Deep sea corals glow in the dark to lure prey, Israeli researchers find
Study shows that corals in dark zones of sea that must supplement food obtained by photosynthesis use fluorescence to lure small creatures such as plankton into their mouths
By Sue Surkes
Extinct species of cave bear excavated in Devil's Cave, near Pottenstein, Germany. (Ra'ike, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
May 10, 2022, 12:34 pm
Big brains helped large mammals survive extinction, study shows
Behavioral flexibility, thanks to large brain-to-body ratio, gave species evolutionary advantage in face of climate change and human hunters
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Teenage girls from the Atlanta Jewish community. (Courtesy of JumpSpark)
May 9, 2022, 3:48 am
Yentl’s revenge: Young American-Jewish women outperform all others academically
Tulane University professor Ilana Horwitz’s research points to religious culture as reason for why Jewish girls surpass educational attainment of non-Jewish girls – and Jewish boys
By Renee Ghert-Zand
In this April 25, 2020 photo, wildflowers bloom at an empty national park overlooking the Sea of Galilee, locally known as Lake Kinneret (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
October 25, 2021, 2:24 pm
Study finds nature contributes billions to Israel’s economy
First research of its kind says ecosystem services ranging from food, water and pollination to carbon absorption could be worth 8% of GDP, says pricing would help preservation
By Sue Surkes
Prof. Dan Ariely (Channel 12 screenshot)
September 4, 2021, 11:29 am
Behavioral researcher says he ‘undoubtedly made a mistake’ in false data scandal
Dan Ariely insists his actions were innocent, defends other controversial moves, believes his reputation will recover
By ToI Staff
A building on the campus of Bar Ilan University, near Tel Aviv, whose facades have been largely covered by vegetation. (BIU Vertical Fields Project)
July 8, 2021, 9:21 am
Plant-covered buildings can tame summer heat, Israeli study finds
Bar-Ilan University researchers cover facades of 2 buildings in greenery and leave another bare in what they say is first serious study of live plants’ climate-regulating benefits
By Sue Surkes
A light emitting watercress. (Seon-Yeong Kwak/MIT)
March 16, 2021, 5:06 am
With light-up plants and email from spinach, lab turns over a new leaf on flora
Pioneering so-called plant nanobionics, an MIT research team has found ways to use tiny sensors to hack into the signals plants send and alter the way they act
By Sue Surkes
A pregnant woman gets help walking at the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, on February 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 23, 2021, 8:43 pm
95% of former COVID patients suffer no irreversible damage, Israeli study finds
Shaare Zedek hospital finds 94% still report symptoms three months on, notably shortness of breath, but most symptoms disappear within six months
By ToI Staff
A bee sits on an iris flower near the town of Zichron Yaakov in northern Israel, February 4, 2017. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)
January 20, 2021, 6:40 pm
Israeli researchers find a new bee species, amid worries about declining swarms
Little known about Lasioglossum dorchini, found in Alexander Stream National Park during research into best ways of rehabilitating habitats stunted by planted eucalyptus trees
By Sue Surkes
A patient on a cancer ward (iStock)
July 31, 2020, 9:15 am
Israeli scientists find new way to predict cancer’s deadly spread through body
Secondary growths cause 90% of cancer deaths. Haifa team says that, quite accidentally, it has found a way to use cells from primary tumor to instantly predict if metastasis likely
By Nathan Jeffay
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