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Africa - 50 countries whose wealth goes abroad and does not reach their residents. Image: depositphotos.com

Africa - the continent most sensitive to the climate crisis

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Between 2010 and 2020 more than 170 million Africans were affected by drought and at the same time more than 40 million Africans were affected by floods. Because of the climate crisis, by 2030 about 40 million sub-Saharan residents will deteriorate into abject poverty
The Carina Nebula in a near-infrared photograph. One of the first images taken by the Webb Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA and STScIn

NASA's Webb Telescope reveals cosmic cliffs and star-forming regions in the Carina Nebula

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"Cosmic Cliffs" images show Webb's cameras' ability to peer through cosmic dust, shedding new light on how stars form * Webb's technology could help watch the elusive process of star formation
Light pollution in Israel as seen from space. Image: depositphotos.com

The rate of land and sea warming in Israel is faster than the world average - from the State of Nature 2022 report trends and threats

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The State of Nature Report 2022, Volume Trends and Threats, presents a snapshot of key factors and processes that affect the state of nature in Israel as a result of human activity. The Fabric is the national program for assessing the state of nature of the Steinhardt Museum of Nature, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, KKL-Junk. and RTG
The galaxy CGCG 396-2 in the Hubble image. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Keel

Hubble discovers a galactic gem: an unusual merger of a multi-armed galaxy

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Citizen scientists have classified lexicons to help scientists solve an astronomical-scale problem -- how to sort through the vast amounts of information generated by robotic telescopes
The front of the Temple built by King Herod. From the model of Jerusalem in the Israel Museum (formerly Holyland). Image: depositphotos.com

Am Yisrael sings 13: installations and accessories relating to the music of the temple

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Height differences between humans. Image: depositphotos.com

Things that Yoram knows: Is it healthy to be tall?

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DP asks: Big dogs live less than small ones, so how is it that taller humans are healthier?
The flat earth theory. Image: depositphotos.com

A researcher watched hundreds of Flat Earth videos to learn how conspiracy theories spread

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The researcher tried to assess the meaning of the insights he received about the fight against disinformation
The treasures of the temple are immortalized on the Gate of Titus in Rome. From Wikishare

Ancient Jews Music 12: Those who blow the trumpet and the shofar

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We have already discussed the importance of the body known as "the funeral cadets". We will point here to another body called "the flowers of the priesthood". The flowers of the priesthood took a particularly prominent place in the issue of Yom Kippur, because in this ceremony the figure of the high priest rose, unlike other events that took place in the temple.
Developers of E-TAC technology, from right to left: Dr. Chen Dotan, Prof. Avner Rothschild, Dr. Abigail Landman and Prof. Gideon Gerder. Photo: Technion spokespeople

The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded a prize to the Technion researchers who developed E-TAC - a technology for the production of green hydrogen

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"The E-TAC team is a wonderful example of why we should celebrate dramatic scientific achievements," the award's justifications state.
A short fragment of the protein envelope of a filamentous bacteriophage M13 virus. Courtesy of the researchers

atoms in motion

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Identifying the mobility of atoms in biological and chemical systems may help in deciphering the structure of the envelope that protects the genetic material of certain viruses, something that may, in the future, allow harming their reproduction

The heat waves kill

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A study by the Ministry of Environmental Protection sheds light for the first time on the connection between heat waves and the climate crisis and mortality in Israel: each heat wave in Israel results in an average excess death of about 45 people; The damage is especially great in populations over the age of 70
The sample containers rise from the water

The Cold War - Under the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a fierce battle between bacteria and viruses takes place

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Prof. Debbie Lindel's research group from the Faculty of Biology at the Technion embarked on three trips from Hawaii to the north and mapped the dramatic changes in the virus-bacteria relationship in the vast ocean. The group also discovered the "hot spot" - the undisputed area of ​​control of the underwater viruses
Artificial evidence. Genetic editing. Photo: depositphotos.com

Teach the computer to see like a human eye

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Does the picture change? Artificial neural networks will have a hard time deciphering it
Prof. Ilana Gozes. Photo: Tel Aviv University

A mechanism shared by mutations in various genes that cause, among other things, autism and schizophrenia has been revealed

An experimental drug developed in a laboratory may be suitable for the treatment of a variety of rare syndromes that impair brain function
Quantum Physics Lab. Photo: Patrick Campbell, University of Colorado. From Wikishare

Quantum teaching - superposition of experiment and theory

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In this post, Kafir Soleimani details how, within the framework of the laboratory, the students smash the foundations of classical theory one by one, by recreating a series of ground-breaking quantum experiments published in the last four decades
Multiverse - parallel universes. From Wikipedia

What is the Hemolyteverse?

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Following the new Marvel movie "Doctor Strange in the Dimensions of Madness" which takes place in the Multiverse, I decided to break down in a short article the meaning of parallel universes and the reasons to believe in their existence. In my opinion, science surpasses any imagination, including Marvel's imagination.
The Trappist-1e solar system is relatively close to Earth and contains three planets in the habitable zone. Photo: depositphotos.com

Disseminating a location as a DHA in the hope of reaching aliens is a controversial idea - two teams of scientists are doing it anyway

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While SETI (the search for extraterrestrial radio signals) has long since become part of mainstream science, METI, or the transmission of messages to intelligent extraterrestrial beings, has been a less common field. Two such projects are now underway
environmental protection. Illustration: depositphotos.com 2011.

War in nature

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encryption technologies. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Emirati researchers test the promise and limitations of a Ben Gurion researcher's algorithm for cracking encryption

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An algorithm developed by Prof. Itai Dinor at Ben Gurion University seems promising in several ranges of common parameters in encryption applications, but this algorithm, like the others, requires a lot of memory, so it is not yet certain whether it will be applicable for attacks, but it is still worth investigating
Children in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya. Illustration: depositphotos.com

agriculture, malaria and other troubles

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African governments are in a race to establish agricultural enterprises to feed the rapidly growing population, but can harming the environment to develop agriculture and in particular increasing the risk of malaria be avoided?
Sandra Rivera heads the Datacenter and AI group at Intel. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Sandra Rivera, Director of the Data Center and AI Group: Intel's presence in the software field will be felt due to the increase in AI applications thanks to the Granulite acquisition, among other things

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Rivera said the words during a press conference that took place at the offices of Bana Labs in Tel Aviv
The landing of the dragon in the Atlantic Ocean, 25/4/2022. Credit: SpaceX/Axiom Space

The Dragon landed safely, the space tourists got out of it on their own (recording)

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Current updates The Dragon spaceship landed and floated in the sea waiting for the rescue ship
The four color map problem. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A research group has solved a mathematical problem that has been open for 63 years, proving an extension of the 'Four Color Theorem'

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If it is possible to color a geographic map so that any two countries with a common border line are colored in a different color, using four colors at most? Regarding the maps, the answer is yes, but what about circles that do not overlap but can be launched?
There are. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Global survey: 61% of people believe that bots will succeed where humans have failed in the field of corporate sustainability

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A global study commissioned by the computing company Oracle reveals that 94% of people believe that not enough progress has been made in the field of sustainability and in the social field * 78% of people are frustrated and fed up with the lack of progress by businesses in these areas
The lotus flower. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The lotus is a self-cleaning bio-plastic

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Inspired by the ever-clean lotus leaf, researchers have developed a self-cleaning bioplastic that is stable, sustainable and compostable * Not all bioplastics or bio-derived plastics are actually easily biodegradable
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