February 17, 2021

The freckled leek off the coast of Hadera, February 2021 (before the storm and the oil spill). Photo: Hezi Shohat

For the first time: a finned leek was identified and tagged in front of the Hadera power plant

The phenomenon of sharks gathering in the warm waters during the winter on the coasts of Israel - Hadera, Ashdod and Ashkelon - is a unique and intriguing phenomenon that does not occur in other similar places in the world
The anatomy of the cells in the human body. Photo: depositphotos.com

The revolving door of the cells

Weizmann Institute of Science scientists have mapped the rate of regeneration of our body * Every year and a half we produce 50 kilograms of cells, as the average weight of the cells in our body
The trees compete with each other for water and especially for light. Photo: Christian Ferrer – Wikimedia Commons

Are there too many trees in the forest?

A new Israeli study found that low density in forest plots helps trees fix more carbon dioxide and thus contribute to the fight against the climate crisis
Corona vaccine. Photo: depositphotos.com

Can the corona virus develop resistance to vaccines?

A week ago a study was published in Nature in which the researchers described how they closely followed the evolution of the virus in the body of a cancer patient whose immune system was eliminated and discovered mutations that are able to deal with a large number