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2012 was a year of climate records
10/08/2013 - 14:48
But in the Arctic, surface temperatures rose twice as fast in the past decade as lower latitudes, said Jackie Richter-Menge, a report co-... →
How much average teenager costs their parents
03/08/2013 - 19:08
The study, carried out on behalf of cashback website Quidco.com, found that stocking cupboards with enough food for their teenage offspring... →
What does Space smell like?
28/07/2013 - 17:35
The smell of space is so distinct that, three years ago, NASA reached out to Steven Pearce of the fragrance maker Omega Ingredients to re-... →
Primitive human society 'not driven by war'
23/07/2013 - 15:39
Motives for murder The research team based their findings on isolated tribes from around the world that had been studied over the last... →
Life Satisfaction Linked to Personality Changes
18/07/2013 - 15:55
The data reveal that the participants' character changed during those four years at least as much as demographic factors, such as marital... →
Air pollution causes over 2 million deaths a year
14/07/2013 - 12:54
West and his colleagues concluded that about 470,000 people die each year from ozone produced by human industrial activities. (Unlike ozone... →
New explanation for bipedalism
08/07/2013 - 18:44
Since Darwin, scientists have conjured a lengthy list of explanations for how and why upright walking arose in hominids. The savanna theory... →
Israeli research shows that scans reveal past brain activity
02/07/2013 - 19:43
Tal Harmelech, under the guidance of Malach and Dr. Son Preminger, set out to uncover their significance. The idea was that the patterns of... →
The link between circadian rhythms and aging
27/06/2013 - 13:57
Since the SIRT1 protein itself was found to decline with aging in the normal mice, the findings suggest that drugs that enhance SIRT1... →
The majority in Israel is steadily becoming a minority
21/06/2013 - 15:14
It won't be an easy discovery for the group that molded the country in its image. But it can be adapted to. American WASPs still did what... →
Study: Integrating Israeli Arabs into the labor market would provide major economic boost
14/06/2013 - 19:58
Although massive in scope, the study says the investment would be one of the economy's most worthwhile undertakings, yielding a... →
Are we born racist? A new Israeli study has some surprising answers
08/06/2013 - 12:46
Prof. Gil Diesendruck, of Bar-Ilan University’s Psychology Department and Gonda Brain Research Center, says that it starts at a very young... →

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