Oxytocin, a peptide produced in the brain, may bring hearts together – or it can help induce aggression. (image from Weizmann Institute) During the pandemic lockdown, as couples have been forced to spend days and weeks in each other’s company,…
Joel Chasnoff spoke at a Zoom event presented by Jewish National Fund of Canada on June 1 and he’ll speak at a CHW Montreal Zoom event on June 21. (photo from APB Speakers) Michael Levin grew up in Philadelphia, joined the…
The tablet found by Imri Elya. (photo by IAA via Ashernet) Imri Elya was on an outing with his parents at Tel Jemmeh archeological site near Kibbutz Re’im when he picked up the square clay object. His parents contacted the…
Visitors to Masada learn more about the site through Gadi Mathov’s miniature model of the landmark. (photo from Mathov Design) What would it take to make museums, cultural sites and tourist attractions more accessible to people with visual, intellectual or…
Beewise wants to replace traditional, wooden hives with high-tech, autonomous ones. (photo from Beewise) What do cucumbers, avocados and coffee all have in common? Aside from being absolute necessities (yes, avocados, too), they’re all crops pollinated by bees. And, if…
Maskit is located at 4 Auerbach St., in Jaffa. (photo from Maskit) When next in Israel, in addition to walking the beaches of Tel Aviv, being spiritually uplifted at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and enjoying the food across the…
Spring. Every year, it returns like a miracle and Israel is carpeted with wildflowers. There are nearly 3,000 types of wild plants in this tiny land, a wonderful profusion, among the most abundant on earth. Israel boasts a variety of…
A new computer algorithm can predict in the early stages of pregnancy, or even before pregnancy has occurred, which women are at a high risk of gestational diabetes. (photo from Weizmann Institute) A new computer algorithm can predict in the…
In central Tel Aviv, a driver slotted their car in between two properly parked vehicles. (photo from Ashernet) Traffic density on Israel’s roads averages about 2,800 vehicles per kilometre, worst of all the OECD countries, for which the average is…
Raz Frogel (photo from Fair Trade Israel) Raz Frogel, 23, has taken it upon himself to increase the number of fair trade items on Israeli store shelves. Frogel, who lives in Dror Israel commune in Haifa, first read about child…
