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Ancient roman road and ruins with trees and cloudy sky in Ostia Antica. (Janos Varga/iStock by Getty Images)
November 11, 2025, 8:45 am
All the roads that led to Rome spread way further than previously known
Study ‘connects the dots on a continental scale,’ finds nearly 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) of roads from Spain to Syria
By CHRISTINA LARSON
Pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel activists take part in a protest to mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba in the Queens borough of New York on May 15, 2024. (Leonardo Munoz / Leonardo Munoz / AFP)
May 26, 2024, 3:18 pm
Anti-Israel protests more prevalent at elite US universities, study finds
Data suggests that Gaza war protests and encampments have not been seen as much at less exclusive US colleges with more lower-income students
By ToI Staff
A mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. (NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University) - HubbleSite: gallery, release. Public domain)
March 27, 2024, 11:10 pm
Israeli scientists become first to chronicle earliest stages of supernova
Astronomers from Weizmann Institute observe a star in nearby galaxy Messier 101 explode and believe it left behind a new black hole
By Ari Rabinovitz
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
Children at sunset (Vitold Muratov, via Wikimedia Commons)
March 30, 2023, 12:17 pm
Study points to coding DNA variants as cause for childhood onset schizophrenia
Israeli research finds that some children with this rare mental illness carry genetic mutations previously found in people with language, learning, and developmental challenges
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A salesman packs green tea at the counter of French luxury tea house Mariage Freres on October 10, 2011 in Le Marais, Paris. (JOEL SAGET/ AFP)
March 21, 2023, 5:47 pm
Green tea can be dangerous for some people, Israeli study concludes
While affording many health benefits, the plant can also be toxic in rare cases and lead to acute liver failure if not caught in time
By Renee Ghert-Zand
FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2018 file photo, a doctor looks at PET brain scans in Phoenix (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
November 30, 2022, 12:08 pm
In first, new Alzheimer’s drug modestly slows progress of disease, researchers say
US, Japanese drugmakers announce results of full study, but remains unclear how much of a difference it may make to lives of those affected by the condition
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
Women pronounced fit for labor from the Tet Ghetto in Hungary standing on the platform after a selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. (Anonymous, possibly SS photographers E. Hoffmann & B. Walter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
November 17, 2022, 11:30 am
Study suggests Nazis attempted to sterilize Jewish women in camps with food additive
New research finds it likely wasn’t just trauma and starvation that caused 98% of women to stop menstruating upon arrival at Auschwitz, and many to later struggle with infertility
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative image of a human brain (onimate via iStock by Getty Images)
October 12, 2022, 6:55 pm
Rats implanted with human brain cells provide scientists with invaluable data
Scientists integrate human brain cells into newborn rats, taking ‘our ability to study human brain development, evolution and disease into uncharted territory’
By Sara Hussein
A synthetic mouse embryo grown at Weizmann Institute of Science, pictured dally, from day one top left, to day eight bottom right. (Courtesy Weizmann Institute of Science)
August 26, 2022, 10:19 am
Scientists again manage to create synthetic mouse embryos using only stem cells
Study by California researchers follows on from similar work by Israeli biologists at Weizmann Institute: ‘We are undoubtedly facing a new technological revolution’
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Angel Cespedes, 14, who is in need of a kidney transplant, lies in bed feeling unwell after dialysis treatment at his home in Valles del Tuy on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela, November 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
August 18, 2022, 7:30 pm
Scientists alter kidney blood type, potentially increasing transplant availability
Study may have significant implications for patients from ethnic minorities, who are less likely to find a match for the majority of donated kidneys
By Tobias Siegal
Telescopus hoogstraali, or Desert Tiger Snake, an endangered species of snake endemic to the Middle East. (Simon Jamison, Tel Aviv University)
June 5, 2022, 12:39 pm
One in every five species of reptiles worldwide is facing extinction, study finds
Covering over 10,000 species, study involving Israeli researchers is the most comprehensive of its kind to date; half of all turtles and crocodiles in danger of dying out
By Tobias Siegal
How ketamine works: A schematic representation of ketamine's newly discovered and previously known mechanisms of action. Ketamine molecules directly inhibit a receptor for the neurotransmitter glutamate (top left), generating a cascade of biochemical reactions that increases the expression of potassium channels (KCNQ) in neurons belonging to the glutamate network in the ventral hippocampus (right). (Weizmann Institute of Science)
May 31, 2022, 6:07 pm
Israeli-German study hopes to pave way for use of ketamine as an antidepressant
Researchers say they’ve identified previously unknown mechanism of drug’s lasting mood-boosting effects
By Tobias Siegal
Illustrative: ultra-Orthodox boys. (Rishwanth Jayapaul/Flash90)
February 22, 2022, 6:26 pm
Majority of ultra-Orthodox men in Israel lack basic English skills – study
26% of ultra-Orthodox Israeli men don’t know English; 28% describe their English as ‘poor,’ and fewer are learning English in school than in the past
By ToI Staff
This undated image, courtesy of the Museum of the Natural History of Vienna, shows roughly 2,700-year-old-human excrement from the Hallstatt salt mines in which beans, millet and barley are clearly visible. (Museum of Natural History of Vienna/AFP)
October 14, 2021, 4:16 am
Ancient poop suggests blue cheese-beer combo has long been a favorite
Scientists make discovery by analyzing samples of human excrement found at heart of Hallstatt salt mine in the Austrian Alps
By Lucie AUBOURG
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