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Food waste

Food Waste: The Biggest Loss Could be What You Choose to Put in Your Mouth

21.03.2018

Environment, Plants and Agriculture

A new analysis suggests hundreds of millions more could eat from the same resources with plant-based diets

Jupiter_Juno image. NASA

Unveiling the Depths of Jupiter’s Winds

07.03.2018

Space & Physics, Planetary Science

“Jupiter’s atmosphere is many times greater than anything we have seen before”

microbiome influences

Genetics or Lifestyle: What Is It That Shapes our Microbiome?

27.02.2018

Nutrition, Systems Biology, Viruses & Microorganisms, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics

A study brings new hope for improving our health

organoid with folds

“Brain on a Chip” Reveals How the Brain Folds

19.02.2018

Lasers & Optics, Theoretical Physics, Brain & Behavior, Systems Biology, Evolution and Development

Keeping the tiny "brains" flat enabled researchers to follow the process of wrinkling, step by step

Phages attacking a bacterium_lab of Rotem Sorek

Bacterial Immune Systems Take the Stage

25.01.2018

Biochemistry, Systems Biology, Viruses & Microorganisms, Evolution and Development, Genetics

Multiple new and unusual bacterial defense mechanisms could lead to new biotech tools

Bats use social maps

Mapping the Social Landscape

11.01.2018

Brain & Behavior

A new study on bats reveals the cells that link our social connections to our internal spatial maps

Rotem Sorek reef fish ecology

Making Larvae Count

13.12.2017

Evolution and Development, Genetics, Environment

Genetic barcodes are used to quantify crucial populations in a coral reef ecosystem

malaria vesicles

How Malaria Tricks the Immune System

07.12.2017

Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Yeda Technology Transfer

The new study suggest a possible defense in the battle against this deadly disease

Drs. Elisabetta Boaretto and Tobias Richter. In the foreground is a Natufian hearth at Shubayqa, Jordan

Uncovering Varied Pathways to Agriculture

05.12.2017

Scientific Archaeology

New dates for a 15,000-year-old site in Jordan challenge some prevailing assumptions about the beginnings of permanent settlement

the smell of fear: skydivers

Autism and the Smell of Fear

27.11.2017

Brain & Behavior

Odors that carry social cues seem to affect volunteers on the autism spectrum differently

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