September 22, 2020

Image: This map includes the probability of wildfires in California's Northern Coast Mountains as published in a UC DAVIS study, with September 2020 wildfire extents shown for comparison.

The fires in California have worsened 4.5 times in 40 years

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The study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, shows that the drought of 2012-2016 almost quadrupled the area that was severely burned, compared to the relatively cool drought of 1987-1992.
Dr. Assaf Zaritsky Photo: Danny Machlis, Ben-Gurion University

Deciphering a wave of cell death may in the future allow cancer tumors to shrink

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Researchers from Ben-Gurion University demonstrated for the first time, together with their colleagues from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, how a 'wave of death' spreads between cells. The discoveries are a basis for understanding the processes of programmed cell death
The surface of Venus and its atmosphere, where phosphines are at cloud level. Figure: ESO

Has a chemical marker for the possibility of life on the surface of Venus been discovered?

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Astronomers have discovered a rare element - phosphine - in the clouds of the planet Venus. On Earth, this gas is only produced in industry or it is emitted by bacteria living in an oxygen-limited environment
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