March 6, 2026

Global warming is accelerating. Illustration: depositphotos.com

New study: Global warming has been accelerating since 2015

Analysis of five global datasets shows that the rate of warming in the past decade is almost double that measured between 1970 and 2015
red blood cells Illustration: depositphotos.com

The fight for iron: How disease-causing fungi exploit our blood – and what might stop them

In the low-luminosity galaxy CDG-2, within the dashed red circle on the right, dark matter is dominant and contains only a sparse scattering of stars. Left: The full Hubble image. Credit: NASA, ESA, Dayi Li (UToronto); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

A "ghost galaxy" composed of 99% dark matter has been discovered 300 million light-years away

Astronomers identified the galaxy CDG-2 in the Perseus cluster using only four globular clusters and observations from the Hubble and Euclid Space Telescopes and the Subroutine Observatory in Hawaii.
Relationships: Evolution of the virus and the cell. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Dr. Yotam Bar-On: “Why do viruses always win?” – and what gives us an advantage anyway

In a lecture at the Technion, Dr. Yotam Bar-On explained how rapid evolution, mutations, and immune evasion allow viruses to outpace the immune system, why vaccines are very successful in some diseases and less so in others, and what we learned from the Corona era.