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Evolution and nature
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- September 21, 2023
A new Israeli study examined the siksak, a common species of bird - and found that urban siksaks are braver than their rural brethren. Although we usually all appreciate this beautiful feature, it is possible that the change in behavior in question is actually not so positive for these birds
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- September 20, 2023
In the Gaza Strip there is no law or supervision against fishing for protected species - therefore, sharks and bats that are in danger of extinction are hunted there freely. A new Israeli study presents a method for collecting data from social networks that allows us to map the phenomenon, and find out what is happening in the Gaza Strip
- Tel Aviv University
- September 12, 2023
The need to hunt small animals caused prehistoric man to improve his mental abilities in order to perfect his hunting tools
- Haifa University
- September 11, 2023
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A new study conducted at the University of Haifa found that even the sniper fish, which lack the "higher" areas of the cerebral cortex, which are seen as being responsible for social behavior, act in a pro-social way towards their friends, until they feel "cheated"
- Haifa University
- September 10, 2023
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According to Dr. Motty Charter, the fact that two amateur observers are the ones who identified the raccoon, an endangered species, through watching the Charter Group's Birds Online YouTube channel, highlights the enormous importance of citizen science in protecting wildlife.
- The Voice of Science website - the National Science Foundation
- September 4, 2023
An examination of known growth laws that were discovered recently, led to the discovery of new growth laws
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- September 2, 2023
A new Israeli study presents a solution to the many accidents between aircraft and winged creatures, and for the first time succeeds in identifying with the help of radar flocks of large birds, which until now were considered "invisible"
- Weizmann Institute
- August 17, 2023
The new system was discovered in bacteria - but is also used in corals, bees and others
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- August 16, 2023
The animal that breaks the laws of nature: a new Israeli study reveals that the colonies of the flower botryll, a unique marine creature, age in their entirety - and then return to being young again. The phenomenon received the term "Orshina rhythm" - the Talmudic name of the mythological phoenix
- Weizmann Institute
- August 12, 2023
New discoveries about how the result of infection with a virus from the herpes family is determined and where dormant viruses may hide in the body
- Tel Aviv University
- August 10, 2023
Climate change may lead to the collapse of the population of lizards that are common in the deserts of the Land of Israel
- Tel Aviv University
- August 5, 2023
New research shines a positive light on biological stigma
- Tel Aviv University
- July 22, 2023
The people who lived in the Hula valley hundreds of thousands of years ago made long journeys to obtain quality raw material for the production of hand stones
- Weizmann Institute
- July 17, 2023
- Dr. Moshe Nachmani
- July 16, 2023
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IBM's artificial intelligence model was able to find compounds that bind to different sites on target proteins against the corona disease caused by the covid virus and this without knowing the mechanism of the attachment of the virus to the cell
- Tel Aviv University
- July 16, 2023
Bats, urban heat islands, Tel Aviv University, zoology, geography, interdisciplinary research, biologically assisted sampling, smart cities, the Internet of Things, air pollution,
- Dr. Hanan Stein
- July 8, 2023
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Chapter nine from the book: "The Free Man - Evolutionary Psychology, Brain Research and Understanding the Mind"
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- July 2, 2023
- Tel Aviv University
- June 28, 2023
According to the researchers, it is a hormone, a small signal molecule, which controls the growth of plants. The decoding may help a lot in expanding agricultural crops and dealing with the global food crisis
- The Voice of Science website - the National Science Foundation
- June 28, 2023
What makes foraminifera species sensitive to heat?
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- June 25, 2023
A new Israeli study reveals that the desert gorse, a common plant in the country, releases a pungency that prevents many animals from eating it - but gives the bulbul birds a "medicine" that helps them digest its fruits. And: how is all this related to cancer prevention?
- Avi Blizovsky
- June 23, 2023
- One response
Geneticists have discovered a whole genome duplication event that occurred in the past in the common ancestor of sturgeons and paddlefish that may have helped them during the mass extinction 200 million years ago
- Avi Blizovsky
- June 5, 2023
- One response
The box contains dried butterflies that were collected in the Land of Israel between the years 1863-1865 by delegations of the Anglican Church and have now been donated to the Steinhart Museum of Nature at Tel Aviv University
- Avi Blizovsky
- May 30, 2023
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A new model of human evolution suggests that Homo sapiens arose from many closely related populations rather than from a single group
- Ben-Gurion University
- May 30, 2023
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The shrimp has a particularly bright white color on its back and limbs that are intended to attract fish, which it 'cleanses' of pests it feeds on. An in-depth examination of the white substance using special electron microscopes revealed that the substance consists of an incredibly thin layer of very dense nanospheres (spheres of very tiny diameter)