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Strange Electrons and Plant Immunity: The 2025 Wolf Prizes

The prestigious Israeli prize this year will honor groundbreaking achievements in physics, antiviral research, chemical catalysis, discoveries in plant immunity, and architectural innovation in China.

Ettay Nevo

15.3.2025

12 minutes

Science Panorama Biology

What is a Biological Weapon?

From the worst epidemics to anthrax envelopes – all about biological weapons

Ori Taichman

14.8.2022

17 minutes

Firefly Medicine and Physiology

On Pride, Prejudice and Monkeypox

Outbreak of the disease in the western world – the need to provide health information to the public vs. the concern of harmful stigmas

Noam Leviatan

4.8.2022

14 minutes

Brainwash General Knowledge

Brainwash – What is a Geyser?

Why do sweets cause tooth decay? What is a rattler? How do you label nitrogen? A challenging scientific trivia

Ettay Nevo

28.4.2022

1 minutes

Science History Medicine and Physiology

Smallpox : A Nightmare That (Probably) Won’t Return

The disease that killed hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century alone and apparently destroyed whole civilizations in the new world.

Erez Garty, Ph.D

6.4.2020

5 minutes

Science news Biology

The Virus that Brings Down the Rain

Viruses that infect colonies of water algae lead to the spreading of airborne particles upon which rain drops can condense, study finds

Noa Barak-Gavish, PhD

9.10.2018

4 minutes

Science Archive

Viral attack strategies

A virus is an infectious agent with two goals: to infect and to proliferate. Its life

Davidson Staff

13.8.2012

3 minutes

Ask the expert

Can cold weather or cold body temperature really make one sick? Keren

Hi Keren, As you probably know, disease-causing agents (known as pathogens) are bacteria

Davidson Staff

25.3.2012

2 minutes