A pioneering technology for coating plants with a thin wax layer is expected to dramatically reduce the agricultural use of pesticides. According to UN reports, plant diseases destroy about one-third of the world’s agricultural yield, causing an estimated annual economic…
Climate change found to affect temperature and precipitation patterns across western North America. Alaska’s glaciers are melting at an accelerating pace, losing roughly 60 billion tons of ice each year. About 4,000 kilometers to the south, in California and Nevada,…
A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep’s core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in jellyfish and sea anemones, among the earliest creatures with nervous systems. By tracing this mechanism back to these…
The BIU study, recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), explains how the protein, Sirt6, carefully regulates a critical longevity molecule, protecting against age-related decline and disease. The findings shed new light on how the body…
University of Haifa’s Dr. Derya Akkaynak calls the study “a critical baseline” that will enable future research to better detect shifts associated with environmental stress. A new joint study by researchers from University of Haifa and the Hebrew University of…
NIS 60 million initiative to be led by Creation Space will provide at least 35% discount on market prices for launch, testing, and in-orbit services . The Israel Space Agency and the Israel Innovation Authority announced today the launch of a new…
A new study led by researchers from the Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Tel Aviv University (TAU) for the first time offers a coherent biological explanation for how breast cancer cells manage to “settle” in the brain,…
During the visit, Ambassador J.P. Singh met with Indian students and researchers from across the university and held discussions with Tel Aviv University leadership. The visit culminated in the signing of an agreement to establish Israel’s first India Chair at…
A University of Haifa analysis of the Dead Sea’s coastal terraces reveals a sharp rise in plastic accumulation originating from flash floods in the Kidron Stream; accelerated decomposition processes generating increasing quantities of microplastic; and waste trapped in sinkholes, leaving…
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative,” wrote H. G. Wells. This principle – that survival requires change – was mastered billions of years ago by single-celled organisms living in extreme heat. Over the past few decades,…
