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Habitable worlds may be far more common than thought, Israeli study says

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always show the same face to their star.

 Life beyond Earth may exist in far stranger places than scientists once thought, a new study suggests. January, 22.
Member of the study into  a new class of latent monomers.

Israeli scientists create light-activated plastic for safer manufacturing

TAMAR ZANDBERG.

Religiosity among Israelis determines what they're willing to do about climate crisis, study says

DR. TAHLI FRENKEL.

Reichman study: Babies begin forming expectations of their parents as early as their first year


NASA's startling discovery: an abandoned city buried deep beneath the ice

The discovery occurred while the NASA team was testing the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) system aboard a Gulfstream III aircraft.

 Climb at Katla Ice Cave.

Human activity shifted Earth's axis by 80 centimeters, study finds

Water extraction caused an average annual drift of Earth's rotational pole by 4.63 cm, totaling 80 cm in less than two decades.

 Shifting Earth’s axis. Aerial photo of center pivot irrigations systems.

Scientists finally have an answer for a long-standing question: what is inside the moon?

Findings resolve years of debate and offer new insights into the Moon's evolution and the Solar System's history.

 What’s inside the moon.

Human burial practices had their origin in the Levant, Israeli researchers say

Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens had different burial practices, the research shows.

 Archaeology excavation.

Who does Delle the lonely dolphin talk to?

"If we hadn't known that Delle was alone, we might have concluded that a group of at least three dolphins was engaged in various social interactions”.

 A lonely dolphin.

DESI confirms Einstein's relativity on cosmic scales with unprecedented precision.

“We also needed to test that our assumption works on much larger scales," said cosmologist Pauline Zarrouk.

 Sparring antennae galaxies.

Scientists discover hallucinogens in 2,200-year-old Egyptian Bes mug

Analysis reveals psychotropic substances and human bodily fluids used in ancient rituals.

 Column capital of the god Bes.

Space or stress? Astronauts in orbit are a little bit dumber, study shows

Processing speed, working memory, and attention, slowed down during the astronauts’ time in orbit.

 Astronaut in orbit. Illustration.

Israeli-led consortium publishes groundbreaking cell-by-cell Atlas of the human body

"When things go wrong, they go wrong with our cells first and foremost," said biologist Aviv Regev.

 Aviv Regev, co-chair of the Human Cell Atlas consortium.

Researchers create ‘biocooperative’ material showing bone-healing potential of blood

Nottingham scientists create a 'biocooperative' material from patients' blood to repair bones and boost healing, published in Advanced Materials. Led by Prof. Alvaro Mata.

 Can our own blood be used to heal broken bones?