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When France and Spain meet in the semifinals: Does the World Cup favor democracies?

Does the World Cup favor democracies?

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An analysis by Professor John A. Torres and published on The Conversation found that democracies are particularly overrepresented in World Cup finals. Tonight at 22:00 PM, France and Spain will meet in the first semi-final.
Naomi Orseks: The threat to public trust in science also comes from within the scientific system

Naomi Orseks: How Monsanto fabricated and infiltrated a fake scientific article that led to its deregulation of a toxic substance

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In a remote lecture at the annual Science and Environment Conference in Jerusalem, the Harvard University historian of science argued that the data does not indicate a widespread crisis of public trust in science. She said that articles written under the influence of corporations could shape
Hubble reveals a star-studded masterpiece: more than half a million ancient stars

Hubble reveals a star-studded masterpiece: more than half a million ancient stars

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The new image of the globular cluster Messier 3 was released to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States' independence. The distant cluster contains hundreds of variable stars, stars that appear young for their age, and two stellar populations that may indicate
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Artificial intelligence enables MRI tracking of breast cancer at a rate of one image per second

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The ELITE method, developed by researchers from the Technion and universities in the United States, combines a mathematical model and a neural network to reconstruct dynamic MRI of the breast with high temporal resolution, without sacrificing image sharpness. In a study conducted among
Verna Meyer, one of the winners of the 2026 Dan David Prize. Photo: Luigi Ventimiglia Photography

Dan David Prize 2026: Nine researchers win the world's largest history prize

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The Dan David Prize, the world's largest history prize, has announced the nine winners for 2026. Each of them will receive a grant of $300 to continue their research in the fields of history, archaeology, and the study of the past.
Prof. Yaakov Nachmias, Prof. Hussam Hayek and Prof. Tal Dvir, three Israeli researchers who have been added to the National Academy of Inventors in the United States.

Three Israeli researchers were added to the National Academy of Inventors in the US

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Prof. Tal Dvir of Tel Aviv University, Prof. Hussam Hayek of the Technion, and Prof. Yaakov Nachmias of the Hebrew University were inducted into the ranks of the National Academy of Inventors, in recognition of academic inventions with scientific impact,
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Do you travel a lot? This is how you can protect your back and neck during long drives

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Practical tips for protecting your back and neck during long drives: seat adjustment, stretching exercises, recommended accessories, and habits that will prevent pain.
Flight abroad. Credit: DΛVΞ GΛRCIΛ on the PEXELS website

Have you returned from abroad with a medical problem? What to do after landing?

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A GeoSentinel study that examined more than 42 travelers who returned sick found that the most common problems after traveling were “gastrointestinal, febrile illnesses, and skin problems” — a reminder that fever, prolonged diarrhea, rash, or
ChipEx2024 conference. Photo: Lens Productions

When global chip giants decide to speak up, they choose ChipEx2026

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Some of the world's leading companies are set to unveil their most innovative developments at ChipEx2026, including Nvidia, AMD, Amazon, and Sandisk.
The great white shark is one of the largest mesothermal fish that may face high energy demands and an increasing risk of overheating in warming oceans. Credit: Andrew Fox

Sharks and tuna may overheat in warming oceans

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A study published in Science found that large, partially warm-blooded fish, including white sharks and tuna, consume almost four times as much energy as similarly sized warm-blooded fish.
Seconds before the Artemis II spacecraft lands. Screenshot: NASA

Live broadcast: Artemis II landed safely

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Orion's first crewed deep-space test flight tested launch, flight, return and recovery systems — paving the way for the next phase of the lunar return program
Moon colony. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Life on the Moon Won't Be Romantic: This Is What the True Test of the Human Body Will Look Like

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In preparation for an extended stay on the lunar surface, scientists warn of a dangerous combination of low gravity, cosmic radiation, lunar dust, isolation, and possible damage to bodily systems.
Artemis II launch. Photo: NASA

Live broadcast: Artemis II launched on first manned flight around the moon since Apollo

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The Artemis II mission is set to be the first manned flight of the Artemis program, with four astronauts in the Orion spacecraft to orbit the Moon and back, as a crucial step toward resuming human presence on the Moon.
A planet and moons without a sun. New research suggests a previously overlooked setting for life: moons drifting through interstellar space with no sunlight at all. Under the right conditions, they could sustain lasting living environments. (Artist's rendering). . Illustration: depositphotos.com

Study: Moons of free planets may support life even without a sun

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New model suggests hydrogen-rich atmospheres and tidal heating could keep liquid water on moons orbiting free-floating planets for up to 4.3 billion years, even in dark interstellar space
Damage to Haifa refineries from Iranian missile interception, March 30, 2026. Photo by Haifa Cities Association for Environmental Quality, from X

Ground-based missile, evacuation of the area

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An interceptor missile strike today on a fuel tank at the BN complex in Haifa brings to the forefront an old warning: It is impossible to continue to have a polluting, dangerous, and vulnerable petrochemical industry in the heart of Haifa Bay, especially in an era of war.
These images, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), show a planetary system forming around the young star WISPIT 2. The star is surrounded by a disk of gas and dust – the raw material from which planets form and grow. In 2025, a team of astronomers detected a young planet, WISPIT 2b, carving a gap in the disk around the star. Now, the same team has confirmed the existence of a second planet, WISPIT 2c, orbiting the star more closely, as shown in the enlarged image. Both planets are gas giants, similar to Jupiter. WISPIT 2b is almost five times more massive than Jupiter and orbits the star at a distance that is sixty times greater than the distance between Earth and the Sun. WISPIT 2c is twice as massive as WISPIT 2b and orbits the star at a distance that is four times smaller. The images were obtained with the SPHERE instrument on the VLT. The instrument corrects for the blurring caused by atmospheric turbulence, and also blocks the light from the central star, revealing the disk and its surrounding planets in great detail. Another instrument, GRAVITY+ on the VLT interferometer, was also used in the discovery and helped confirm that the observed object is indeed a planet. Credit: ESO / C. Lawlor, RF van Capelleveen et al.

A solar system in the making? Two planets observed forming in a disk around a young star

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Observations by the European Southern Observatory have revealed two gas giants within a disk of dust and gas around a young star, in a system that may resemble the early solar system.
A butterfly-shaped clay bead from the Late Natufian period at Einan-Malaha (Upper Jordan Valley), painted with red ochre and bearing the fingerprints of the boy, about ten years old, who shaped it 12 years ago. (© Laurent Davin)

15,000 years ago: Children shaped beads and pendants from clay

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Long before the advent of pottery and the transition to agriculture, the inhabitants of the first settlements in the Levant were already working with clay by hand. They shaped, polished, and sometimes even played with clay. Now it turns out that some of this work was done

The B-2 Stealth Bomber and the Physics of Radar Stealth

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How an engineering idea of ​​a flying wing, a Soviet mathematical paper on electromagnetic wave dispersion, and advances in computing power made stealth aircraft a reality – from the F-117 to the American B-2 bomber and the next generation B-21
Artist's impression of a stellar dimming event caused by a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter with giant rings (foreground), which creates an opaque "plate" through which some light from the star ASASSN-24fw (background) penetrates. A red dwarf (left) was also discovered nearby during the study.

The star that almost completely disappeared: Rare eclipse reveals giant rings around an unseen body

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Researchers estimate that the mass of the companion star that passed between our star and us is over three times that of Jupiter. Therefore, it could be a brown dwarf, meaning a body larger than a planet but smaller than a regular star.
This image shows the **Central Molecular Zone (CMZ)** at the heart of the Milky Way — a region rich in dense, complex gas clouds — as mapped by **ALMA** as part of the **ACES** survey. The inset image shows the ACES simulation in which different molecules are marked with different colors. This is the largest mapping ever made by ALMA, spanning an angular span of about three full moons side by side in the sky. (Credit: ALMA ‏(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) /‏ S. Longmore et al.; Background: ESO /‏ D. Minniti et al.).

ALMA has created the largest image yet of the cold gas at the center of the Milky Way

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ACES survey reveals network of fibers, dozens of molecules, and complex chemistry in the central molecular region near the supermassive black hole, opening a new window into understanding star formation in extreme environments
In the first film in the Star Wars series, a double sunrise is seen over Tatooine.

Where did the “two-sun planets” go and is general relativity to blame?

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Halley's Comet, supposedly in 1758.

The name “Hallie’s Comet” may belong to someone else: Study suggests 11th-century monk identified the periodicity before Edmond Halley

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According to an analysis by researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands, evidence in medieval chronicles indicates that the monk Aylmer of Malmesbury linked observations in 989 and 1066 to the same periodic comet—hundreds of years before Halley established
Prof. Yair Shokef and student Tomer Siglov. Photo: Tel Aviv University Spokesperson

Can matter compute? New “mechanical Lego” from Tel Aviv University shows computation in matter without electronics

A study in Physical Review Letters presents a combinatorial design method for metamaterials: controlling motion states and “frustrated” loops, graded response to pressure, and even matrix-vector multiplication using only mechanical displacements.
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CMV virus reveals new mechanism for disrupting immune cell movement

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According to the findings, the CMV virus recruited a molecule called CD44, which in research is called the "traffic controller" of the immune system, and thus disrupted the ability of immune cells to reach the place where an effective response begins in time.
The last inscription discovered in the urban area of ​​Neide also comes from a well in the cult district: a dedication to Mercurius Althaus by a soldier of the 22nd Legion, stationed in Mainz, dated September 9, 246 AD. Credit: S. Martins / AMF

International researchers begin investigating mysterious Roman temple in Frankfurt

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The German Research Foundation and the Swiss Science Foundation are funding research worth one million euros on one of the most significant archaeological finds in Roman Germany.
A dead forest with its trees still standing. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Ghost forests along the Atlantic coast: Algorithm identified millions of dead trees on a scale never before recorded

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Different scraping techniques for different parts of the cow's body. Credit: Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró

Swiss cow uses tools – and researchers are forced to rethink animal intelligence

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Groundbreaking study documents flexible, purposeful tool use in cattle for the first time, challenging long-held assumptions about the cognitive limits of farm animals
Using artificial intelligence for scientific research. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Study warns: Mass use of the same AI tools could reduce the diversity of ideas in science

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Nature argues that AI can increase productivity but also push for convergence, and therefore tools that encourage "outside the box" search are needed.
Pigs in New Zealand. Brought by the Austronesians who spread across the Pacific. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Genetic mapping of teeth reveals how pigs were transported across the Pacific by humans

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A study in Science combines genome sequencing and morphometric analysis of teeth and suggests early movement of pigs from southern China and Taiwan along Austronesian dispersal routes, with limited genetic mixing in the early stages.
Swearing-in ceremony: Jared Isaacman is sworn in as NASA's 15th administrator at the Eisenhower Office Building, Washington. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls.

New NASA Administrator: Jared Isaacman; Race Against China Returns to Center Stage

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The Senate confirmed by a bipartisan majority, Isaacman, who has flown into space twice as a tourist and presents a destination for the Moon and Mars – but took office under criticism for ties to industry, cuts and delays to the Artemis program
The new concept – a bacterium (in light blue) that serves as a pharmaceutical factory that produces the active ingredient in the target organ (the skin)

The pharmaceutical factory within us

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Pioneering technology developed at the Technion will enable the production of drugs inside the body using live bacteria
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Sanofi deepens partnership with Medidata to accelerate development of new medicines with improved patient experience

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As part of the expansion of the collaboration, which has lasted for over a decade, Sanofi will use Medidata's experience solutions to streamline processes, improve data quality and upgrade treatments.
Aggressive bats. Illustration courtesy of Prof. Yossi Yuval, Tel Aviv University

The attack and defense strategies of fruit bats

In the spring, bats are more "bold" and are not afraid to engage in conflicts with rats in the fight for food.
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General disability pension – it is within reach

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An opportunity to improve the climate through insurance incentives. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Insurance, climate and what's in between: an opportunity to turn a crisis into an opportunity

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A study at Tel Aviv University indicates an 11%–100% erosion of profitability in homeowners insurance in the US by the end of the century due to hurricanes – but also the potential to leverage the expected losses for climate investments that will cover
Simulations of cold and hot dark matter scatterings are shown using particles colored by temperature, along with an illustration of telescopes on the moon. Credit: Hyunbae Park, University of Tsukuba

Radio telescopes on the moon could reveal the secrets of dark matter

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The proposed telescopes will be able to listen to the universe at a frequency of 21 centimeters - radio waves that cannot be heard from Earth because of the atmosphere.
Researchers have built a small but powerful detector to find gravitational waves in a hidden frequency range. The discovery could reveal unseen black hole activity and echoes from the early universe. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The small device that will open a new window to the universe: a compact gravitational wave detector for the millihertz range

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UK researchers present a desktop detector based on optical resonators and atomic clocks, which opens access to the “middle domain” of gravitational waves and could reveal binary white dwarfs, black hole mergers and a stochastic background – and a bridge
Optical illusions of birds. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Are animals susceptible to optical illusions? What fish and birds can teach us about perception

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This led to our research question: Do other animals also “fall for” the same tricks? If a small fish or a chicken is exposed to the illusion, what does this tell us about the way they see and interpret their environment?
Gaia has revealed a giant wave moving outward from the center of the Milky Way. The image shows the Milky Way from the side: in the red areas the stars are “higher”, and in the blue areas they are “lower” relative to the disk. The white arrows show the vertical velocity directions. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, S. Payne-Wardenaar, E. Poggio et al. (2025).

Scientists detect a huge, unexplained wave rising in the Milky Way

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Gaia data reveals a massive wobble in the galaxy's disk that is deflecting stars to great distances – a phenomenon that is still unexplained
Trump's higher education charter would require universities to publish average graduate salaries. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The American Charter for Higher Education: A Vision of Equality or a Recipe for Academic Paralysis?

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A new document from the US government requires universities to comply with a series of strict rules – from complete transparency in grades to restrictions on foreign students. Its critics warn: It is an attack on diversity and academic freedom
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt samples a rock at Station 7, at the foot of the North Mountain in the Taros-Littrow Valley. The large rock was dislodged by a powerful moonquake about 28.5 million years ago, likely the result of activity on the Lee-Lincoln Fault. Credit: NASA/JSC/ASU

Moonquakes could threaten future manned missions and infrastructure

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New study reveals that moderate-intensity tremors associated with the Lee-Lincoln fault in the Taros-Lytaro Valley could endanger permanent bases as part of the Artemis program
It's been 30 years since the first planet was discovered around a star like our Sun. With each new discovery, scientists are getting closer to answering whether there are other planets like Earth that could host life as we know it. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

We've crossed the 6,000-plus exoplanet mark — and some of them are stranger than science fiction planets

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NASA has so far verified 6,000 exoplanets - a vast collection of alien worlds, from fiery giants and oceans of lava to stars with "gemstone" clouds or a density similar to Styrofoam.
A: A grass fly visiting flowers; B: An ant-hunter spider (a phenomenon that attracts kleptoparasitic flies). Credit: Mochizuki 2025.

World's first documented: Plant mimics the scent of wounded ants to attract pollinators

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Vincetoxicum nakaianum, described only last year, emits a scent that resembles ants being attacked by spiders—and thus lures grass flies that feed on wounded prey and pollinate its flowers. Research pushes the boundaries of flower mimicry
Artist's impression of energetic impacts on a Venus-like planet - Researchers suggest that late impacts can shape the interior structure, prolong volcanic activity and influence the habitability of rocky planets. Credit: Southwest Research Institute

The key to alien habitation may lie in planetary collisions

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New research suggests that cosmic collisions may play a key role in creating the conditions necessary for life to develop on distant worlds.
The Emilio Segre Cosmic Radiation Observatory on the summit of Mount Hermon. Photo courtesy of Ariel University

Secrets of Mount Hermon: Powerful gamma radiation measured in dry lightning storms

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A study by Ariel University and the School of Sustainability at Reichman University identified a gamma-ray enhancement (TGE) in two unusual events in January 2018 at the summit of Mount Hermon — without precipitation — and demonstrates electron acceleration in clouds and the effects
Prof. Tomer Wolansky. Photo: Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv 360 Podcast: The Whole Truth About Dark Matter | Particle Physics

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Throwing the Earth in the trash. Climate crisis. Illustration: depositphotos.com

International Court of Justice in The Hague: Legal obligation for countries to combat climate change

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Precedented decision obliges countries to act to reduce emissions and maintain a healthy environment – as part of protecting human rights
A mysterious seance around an ancient seance board. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via DALEE

Do souls and spiritual beings really exist?

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A comprehensive rational review undermines belief in the existence of souls, ghosts, and the success of mediums – and presents scientific explanations for phenomena that are ostensibly attributed to the afterlife but are in fact merely figments of the imagination.
An illustration of what a dark dwarf might look like. Credit: Sissa Medialab

Dark dwarfs lurk in the center of the galaxy – a clue to the nature of dark matter

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Researchers from the UK and Hawaii propose for the first time the existence of substellar objects powered by dark matter, which may shed light on one of the greatest mysteries in modern cosmology.
Star formation region. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Plasma researchers uncover new mechanism for planet formation

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Asymmetric vibrations in plasma disks may explain how planets form around stars and supermassive black holes
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