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…
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Haifa and Ben-Gurion U.: Growing Up in a Book-Filled Home Could Protect Against Cognitive Decline in Old Age
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…
Hebrew U.: Newly-Identified State in Bacteria Has Major Implications for Antibiotic Treatment and Resistant Strains
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…
Haifa U.: High Consumption of Ultra-Processed Food Increases the Risk of High Blood Pressure and High Blood Lipids
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…
Eilat “Community based conservation of the bird’s flyway” campaign, was declared by COP-15 conference as one of the globally most important projects of conservation of bio-diversit
The International Birding & Research Center, Eilat “Community based conservation of the bird’s flyway” campaign, was declared by COP-15 conference as one of the globally most important projects of conservation of bio-diversity The fifteens Conference of parties (COP-15), held by…
Atera (Israel) Launches AI-Based IT Automation Tools to Reduce 30% of Manual Time-Consuming Work
Atera, a remote-first IT management company helping businesses transform as the world continues to adapt to a flexible work model, today announced Atera Plus, an AI-based infrastructure enhancing the company’s leading IT solutions. With Atera Plus, Atera now automatically classifies, prioritizes and routes…
BGU Proposes Utilizing Ecosystem Complexity to Mitigate Ecosystem Response to Climate Extremes
Climate change and the prospect of more frequent and intense climate extremes, such as prolonged droughts, threaten many services that plant communities provide to humans. The concern is a community structure change, involving the displacement of key functional species and…
BIU (Israel): Consistent links between high and low temperatures and low birth weight
An Israeli nation-wide study of more than 600,000 births, led by a researcher at Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, reveals consistent links between high and low temperatures and low fetal birth weight, particularly exposure to heat during the second…
KKL-JNF and NASA: Climate warming, a new survey to identify the tallest trees (Zavit)
A new terrestrial survey based on NASA satellite photos has identified the tallest trees in Israel. Which trees are they, where can they be seen, and how will they fare in a harsher climate? Zavit. When you find the recreational…
Tel Aviv University: Plants to clean up soils
Zavit. Anyone who has seen the classic 1986 film, Little Shop of Horrors, remembers Audrey II, the talking carnivorous plant with an appetite for human blood. While the film takes creative liberties with the plant’s capabilities, the character of Audrey II is…