Bacteria Offer Insights Into Human Decision MakingSource: PhysOrg.com
Scientists studying how bacteria under stress collectively weigh and initiate different survival strategies say they have gained new insights into how humans make strategic decisions that affect their health, wealth and the fate of others in society.
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Book Calls Jewish People an 'Invention'Source: The New York Times
The book by Shlomo Sand, which mixes respected scholarship with dubious theories, spent months on the best-seller list in Israel and is now available in English.
Israel - Most Israelis could live with a nuclear Iran Source: haaretz.com
Only one in five Israeli Jews believes a nuclear-armed Iran would try to destroy Israel and most see life continuing as normal should the Islamic Republic get the bomb, an opinion poll published on Sunday found.
This Isn't Sexist: Men Really Are The Weaker Sex Source: Examiner
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have found that female baby births have less risk than male baby births, though girls do pose a higher risk in utero and for a breech birth.
Israeli find could mean cure to deafnessSource: JPost.com
"An Israeli discovery on the function of tiny molecules called microRNAs (miRNAs) in the inner ears of mice could lead to the cure of human deafness in adults caused by aging, disease, drugs and noise, or genetic disease in children.
Improving Balance May Ease Anxiety Source: Times of the Internet
Tel Aviv University researchers discovered a link between balance and anxiety in children and that improving balance may ease anxiety. ...
Dig yields possible ancient Hebrew inscriptionSource: msnbc.com
An Israeli archaeologist digging at a hilltop south of Jerusalem believes a ceramic shard found in the ruins of an ancient town bears the oldest Hebrew inscription ever discovered, a find that could provide an important glimpse into the culture and language of the Holy Land at th …
Report: Major anti-Semitic attacks triple in 2007Source: ynetnews.com
A 6.6% rise in the number of anti-Semitic attacks has been registered across the world in 2007, a report published on Wednesday by the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at the Tel Aviv University revealed.
Evidence of Noah's Biblical Flood FoundSource: Times of India
A team of researchers from Tel Aviv University and the non-profit research and education organisation, EcoOcean has claimed to have found a site off the coast of Turkey whether the great flood of Noah, as described in the Bible, took place.
Did prehistoric man come from Haifa?Source: Haaretz
The audience, the stage and the set are ready. Only the guest of honor is missing - "and everyone is waiting for him," says Prof. Mina Evron, a researcher in the Archaeology Department of the University of Haifa and the codirector of excavations at Misliya Cave, southwest of Mt.
Yale Expert Responds to British Academic Union's Boycott of IsraelSource: webwire.com
Charles Small, director of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, is available to comment on the vote by the United Kingdom's University and College Union at the UCU conference yesterday to support a boycott of Israeli academics.
Biofuel That Grows Like A Magic MushroomSource: tauac.typepad.com
The race is on. With the threat of global warming looming over our heads and rising oil prices -- politicians, environmentalists and everyone in between can agree that the world needs alternative fuel sources.