Science, Medicine, & Education

Night-time artificial light can harm cell division process

HAIFA (Press Release)–Just one “pulse” of artificial light at night disrupts circadian cell division, reveals a new study carried out by Dr. Rachel Ben-Shlomo of the University of Haifa-Oranim Department of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology along with Prof. Charalambos P. Kyriacou of the University of Leicester. “Damage to cell division is characteristic of cancer, and […]

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San Diego Jewish Film Festival Preview: ‘The Wave’

By Jack Forman LA JOLLA, California–The Wave, a feature-length film made in Germany in 2008 and scheduled to be screened at 8 p.m. tonight (Wednesday)  the San Diego Jewish Film Festival, dramatizes the events of a real Palo Alto high school teaching experiment conducted in 1969.  The events were first featured in a 1981 American

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Bees become addicted to caffeine and nicotine, study shows

HAIFA (Press Release)–Bees prefer nectar with small amounts of nicotine and caffeine over nectar that does not contain these substances at all, a study from the University of Haifa reveals. “This could be an evolutionary development intended, as in humans, to make the bee addicted,” states Prof. Ido Izhaki, one of the researchers who conducted

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Commercial fishing off Israel coast jeopardizing dolphins

HAIFA (Press Release)–Extensive commercial fishing endangers dolphin populations in the Mediterranean. This has been shown in a new study carried out at the University of Haifa’s Department of Maritime Civilizations. “Unfortunately, we turn our backs to the sea and do not give much consideration to our marine neighbors,” states researcher Dr. Aviad Scheinin. The study,

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New species of spider found in vanishing sand dunes of the Arava

Cerbalus aravensis  (Photo by Roy Talbi) ________________________________________________________________ HAIFA (Press Release)–A new and previously unknown species of spider has been discovered in the dune of the Sands of Samar in the southern Arava region by a team of scientists from the Department of Biology in the University of Haifa-Oranim. Unfortunately, however, its habitat is endangered. “The

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Large grant for memory research goes to University of Haifa

HAIFA (Press Release)—Prof. Kobi Rosenblum, Head of the Department of Neurobiology and Ethology at the University of Haifa, has been awarded a €1.6 million grant from DIP, a German-Israeli Project Cooperation, over a five-year period. This grant will fund Prof. Rosenblum’s international research of the role of protein expression in memory formation and stability. Prof.

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A concise and relevant Holocaust compendium for classrooms

Why Should I Care? Lessons from the Holocaust by Jeanette Friedman and David Gold; The Wordsmithy, LLC 2009; 263 pages By Marcia Tatz Wollner SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Why Should I Care? Lessons from the Holocaust is an easy to read and engaging text to add to one’s personal library and definitely a recommendation for a

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Albert meets Pablo in a turn-of-the-century haunt for geniuses

By Carol Davis CARLSBAD, California–New Village Arts Theatre in Carlsbad is currently mounting Steve Martin’s (yes THAT Steve Martin of Roxanne, Father of the Bride and The Jerk) 1993 intellectual fantasy Picasso At The Lapin Agile about two earthmovers who meet, discuss and predict the future.Just for starters the characters at the center of Martin’s imaginary

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Jordan-Israel border area shows environmental impacts of differing land use

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–Is a border line simply a virtual line appearing on the map? If so, why is it that Israeli rodents are more cautious than Jordanian rodents? Why is it that there are more ant lions in Israel than in Jordan? And how come there are more reptile species in Jordan than in

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Blended olive oil may promote Mideast peace

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Quite a bit of it is still hush-hush, but a proposed joint Palestinian-Israeli demonstration peace project to co-market a blended olive oil is evolving into a tri-national effort that also will involve mixing in some olive oil from neighboring Jordan. Oren Blonder, director of the Peres Peace Center’s agriculture, water

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Israeli researcher: Same hormone stimulates emotions of love and envy

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)—A new study carried out at the University of Haifa has found that the hormone oxytocin, also known as the “love hormone”, which affects behaviors such as trust, empathy and generosity, also affects opposite behaviors, such as jealousy and gloating. “Subsequent to these findings, we assume that the hormone is an overall

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