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The Inventions That Helped Women Soar

Commemorating International Women’s Day: The technologies that assisted women in their struggle for equal rights.

calendar 7.3.2021
reading-time 15 minutes

Deceased but still intact

How are mummies created, and what is in common between deserts, snowy peaks and boglands?

calendar 1.2.2021
reading-time 8 minutes

Happy you’re home

Why do so many domesticated animals share physical characteristics?

calendar 26.8.2020
reading-time 14 minutes

Vicepresidenta Argimón

Vicepresidenta Argimón y autoridades de Salud Pública definieron medidas de prevención del coronavirus en el Parlamento

calendar 17.5.2020
reading-time 2 minutes

Music to the Ears

In honor of the Eurovision Song Contest, let’s get to know some of nature’s singers.

calendar 21.4.2020
reading-time 18 minutes

A Decade of Science

Microbiomes, big data, the Higgs boson, and brain-computer interface

The Chemistry of Ice Cream

The simple and effective scientific principles behind the soft and satisfying texture of good ice cream

calendar 30.3.2020
reading-time 4 minutes

The Animal’s Tool Box

From chimpanzees to crows, from dolphins to octopi: Why did this ability develop in only a few species, and why them?

calendar 22.3.2020
reading-time 13 minutes

Can Face Masks Really Stop the Spread of Disease?

does the use of face masks really help protect against disease?

calendar 22.3.2020
reading-time 3 minutes

Small World, Big Plagues

Faster transportation makes it easier for epidemics to spread. Do diseases spread differently today?

calendar 22.3.2020
reading-time 6 minutes

The Almost Pandemic

As the world grapples with the major outbreak of the novel coronavirus, we revisit the movie Contagion. How did they cope with the pandemic?

calendar 22.3.2020
reading-time 9 minutes

The Time-Travel Paradoxes

What happens if a time traveler kills his or her grandfather? How do you stop a time machine from just appearing somewhere in space, millions of kilometers from home?

calendar 22.3.2020
reading-time 12 minutes

What Happened to Beresheet?

Malfunctions, communication problems, the failed scientific mission, the investigation over possible contamination – and the positive impact of Israel’s first spacecraft to the moon: Previously unpublished information about “Beresheet” mission

calendar 20.2.2020
reading-time 25 minutes

Sea Lions and the City

What happens when wild animals settle in urban territory, and what we can learn from San Francisco

calendar 31.1.2020
reading-time 15 minutes

As Straight as a Crooked Ruler

Measurement errors that made history

calendar 31.1.2020
reading-time 8 minutes

A New World Order

150 years since the creation of the periodic table, and 185 since the birth of its creator, Dmitri Mendeleev

calendar 28.1.2020
reading-time 14 minutes

Electronic Cigarettes: Harmful, Unclear if Less So

Very few studies have examined the possible harmful effects of electronic cigarettes.

calendar 16.12.2019
reading-time 13 minutes

Heat, Noodles, and Olive Oil – the Chemistry of the Kugel

The unique taste of the Jewish food originates in a series of chemical reactions

calendar 12.11.2019
reading-time 5 minutes

Rain and Love are in the Air

The season’s first rainfall breathes life into nature, dispelling the long dryness of summer.

calendar 31.10.2019
reading-time 6 minutes

Petrifying Fear: Seeing Medusa

In honor of the night of monsters and terror: What does science say about our fear of snakes, and a disease that turns people into living statues?

calendar 31.10.2019
reading-time 15 minutes

The Undead Taking over the World

Noam Leviatan reviews the history of the living dead, the science of real and imaginary zombies, the link between zombies and public health, and ways to increase your chances of surviving a zombie apocalypse

calendar 27.8.2019
reading-time 30 minutes

Does Race in Humans Mean Anything? Not really

Does classification of humans into races even have a scientific basis?

calendar 26.8.2019
reading-time 5 minutes

Nursing Spiders and Cockroach Milk

Nursing and milk consumption are not exclusive to mammals.

calendar 24.7.2019
reading-time 8 minutes

How are We Fooled?

Why is it so easy for us to believe false reports? How can we avoid falling for them?

calendar 28.3.2019
reading-time 17 minutes