Measurements carried out in one of the landfills in Israel raise the concern that the calculations on the basis of which methane greenhouse gas emissions are estimated do not accurately reflect the real emissions. Why does this cause so much…
Interview of Dr. Henry Mahncke about the impact of a hybrid workplace on the brain health and performance of employees. Dr. Mahncke got his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco in the Merzenich Lab, which discovered the…
University of Haifa today announced the launch of the EMS FORE Helmholtz International Laboratory in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, a five-year joint program with the Germany-based GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel which confronts the climate change crisis by…
Today, people suspected of having inflammatory bowel disease are often required to undergo a colonoscopy, an invasive procedure performed under anesthesia. A new method developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science in collaboration with the Sheba Medical Center at Tel…
Moms devote only 25% of their attention to toddlers while browsing the Internet on the phone. Though the Research focuses mainly on mothers, the researchers believe the findings are applicable to fathers as wel. A new study from Tel Aviv…
A team of three Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) students, two of which are from France and Brazil, took home first place last week at the 6th annual Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) Great Minds Hackathon when they developed an…
A brown blotch on a plant leaf may be a sign that the plant’s defenses are hard at work: When a plant is infected by a virus, fungus or bacterium, its immune response keeps the disease from spreading by killing…
While bookshelves filled with books have intrigued and delighted children for generations, they may confer heretofore unknown long-term benefits. According to a new study by researchers from the University of Haifa, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Israel Gerontological…
For almost two years, newsfeeds have kept us updated on the daily battle to annihilate the coronavirus. So, it’ s easy to forget that there are also many types of bacteria threatening human health – our survival depends on the…
The high consumption of ultra-processed foods, increases the risk of developing high blood pressure and high blood lipids among the entire population and the risk of inflammation among those suffering from non-alcoholic fatty liver. These findings emerged from a new…
