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Tel Aviv University Researchers Report Epidemic Eradicating Sea Urchins

“This is a growing ecological crisis, threatening the stability of coral reefs on an unprecedented scale,” Dr. Bronstein says. “Apparently, the mass mortality we identified in Eilat back in 2023 has spread along the Red Sea and beyond, to Oman and even as far as Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.” [Press Release]

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Lightning Storms in Arctic Speeding Global Warming, Polar Melt

A statistical analysis of the ice sheet retreat compared with the number of lightning storms revealed a correlation: as the number of storms increased in a certain year, so did the melting of the sea ice increase that year. [Press Release, Tel Aviv University]

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Black Hole Gaia BH3 Estimated to be 33 Times Heavier than Mass of Our Sun

An international team of researchers, with the participation of researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) led by Professor (emeritus) Tsevi Mazeh of TAU’s Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, have discovered a star which orbits a black hole 33 times heavier than the sun’s mass and lies 1,500 light-years away from Earth. The black hole, discovered using data from the European Gaia spacecraft, is more than three times heavier than the other known black holes in our galaxy. [Press Release]

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