Science, Medicine, & Education

TEL AVIV (Press Release)― Employers are constantly looking for innovative ways to motivate their workforce.  “Self-efficacy,” a typical technique, involves improving employees’ confidence in their abilities so that they expect greater success. This motivates them to exert greater effort and leads to better performance. But according to organizational psychologist Prof. Dov Eden of Tel Aviv

TEL AVIV (Press Release)― In many areas of the world, including California’s Mojave Desert, rain is a precious and rare resource. To encourage rainfall, scientists use “cloud seeding,” a weather modification process designed to increase precipitation amounts by dispersing chemicals into the clouds. But research now reveals that the common practice of cloud seeding with

  TEL AVIV (Press Release)― Most babies are delivered head-first, but in about 4% of all deliveries babies are “born breech” ― with their buttocks or feet first. Doctors usually exercise caution and use caesarean sections (C-sections) as the delivery method of choice for such births, believing it safer for the baby. After a large-scale

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — A common infection in children, strep throat can lead to problems with a child’s heart, joints or brain if left untreated. And when the brain is involved, motor and mental functioning may be compromised, leading to syndromes such as attention deficit disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). While scientists have speculated on

TEL AVIV (Press Release) ― Information on proteins is critical for understanding how cells function in health and disease. But while regular proteins are easy to extract and study, it is far more difficult to gather information about membrane proteins, which are responsible for exchanging elements essential to our health, like copper, between a cell

TEL AVIV (Press Release)–Anxiety, or the reaction to a perceived danger, is a response that differs from one animal or human to another ― or so scientists thought. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University are challenging what we know about stress, and their study has implications for helping clinicians better treat victims of terrorism or

TEL AVIV (Press Release)― When it comes to gambling, many people rely on game theory, a branch of applied mathematics that attempts to measure the choices of others to inform their own decisions. It’s used in economics, politics, medicine ― and, of course, Las Vegas. But recent findings from a Tel Aviv University researcher suggest