Could Beer Finally End Climate Change Denial?
How many bottles of beer will be lost from the wall if climate change isn’t checked? 30.3 billion a year at the least, Haaretz calculates based on groundbreaking study on barley yield
Ruth Schuster
Ruth Schuster is Senior Editor at the Haaretz-TheMarker English Edition.
Schuster has worked in writing, editing and translation for English and Hebrew-language publications for more than two decades. She holds a BSc in biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
She lives in Tel Aviv with her daughter and multiple pets and in her spare time, promotes animal rights.
Lizards Can Dream, Scientists Discover
Dinosaurs could dream too, we can assume, based on the discovery that reptiles have sleep patterns just like mammals and birds – so our common ancestor 350 million years ago probably did too
Somali Cavefish Reveals That First Mammal Survived Dinosaurs by Hiding in the Dark
A genetic repair system activated by light turns out to exist in everything from germs to animals – except for mammals and eyeless cavefish in Somalia
Iranians Vying to Name Israeli Safari’s New Persian Leopard
Ramat Gan Safari Park finally gets photo of its shy new acquisition – a Persian leopard who arrived in Israel from Athens a month ago and hid until this week
Obesity Genes Evolved 450 Million Years Ago, Shark Study Reveals
Scientists have finally sequenced the shark genome, revealing that humans and sharks derive genes for reproduction, sleep and obesity from the same early fish
Why Israel Is Thronged With Blue-eyed Dogs
Scientists detect the genetic cause of blue eyes in huskies, a mutation in chromosome 18 now appearing in the Israeli dog population
Astronomers Detect Monster Moon in Constellation 8,000 Light Years Away
Neptune-sized exomoon can’t have formed from a primordial cosmic collision because like its home planet, it isn’t rock, it’s made of gas, astronomers say
2,200-year-old Mural Featuring Naked Servant Discovered in Italian Tomb
Colorful pictures found in ancient necropolis of Cumae, near Naples, suggest the settlement was either tragically unhip or its elites had a taste for retro
Breastfeeding With a Grain of Salt: Study Fails to Link Directly to Infant Health
Breastfeeding does correlate with positive health outcomes, but causality hasn’t been demonstrated: better information and health care could be key, new study says
Dark Matter Chocolate Identified as Vitamin D Source
Of course, you’d have to eat half a kilo of dark chocolate a day for your daily dose, but wait for it: sugar-free cocoa pasta
Martian Moons Created by Catastrophic Collision, Says New Theory
Old theory had been that the misshapen, dark-colored moons were captured asteroids, new one is they’re ejected volcanic crust
North Korea Nuke Test Triggered Earthquakes for Eight Months, Scientists Say
The aftershocks were small but were detected by advanced seismic technology all over Eurasia, Columbia U. reports in new paper
French Fries in Belgium Are Shrinking Thanks to Climate Change
European potatoes are shrinking because of declining rainfall in recent years and mounting temperatures: Bad news for fries eaters who will get a shorter version this year
There Are Only Four Personality Types, Psychologists Say
The rough and ready, the bold and beautiful and the teen humanitarian will be appalled to learn that they don’t exist, according to new data
Tiny Sphinx From Ptolemaic Egypt Rescued From Flooding Temple
Archaeologists pumping groundwater out of a temple in Aswan found a small sandstone sphinx in terrific condition
Unique Cache of Over 1,000 Seal Impressions Found in Central Israel
Archaeologists also suspect ancient robbery: New finds in underground part of the city include a Roman casserole dish that had no business being there
Newly Discovered Extreme Deepwater Fish Get Cotton-candy Names
At some point the sea snails found 7,500 meters beneath Pacific surface will get real nomenclature, but for now science just calls them Pink, Purple and Blue
World's Oldest Hashtag: Earliest Known Drawing Found in South African Cave
The stone with the elaborate hashtag, drawn using the world’s first pencil 73,000 years ago, was found in the same layer with shell beads and abstract engravings
Before Judaism: The 8,000-year-old History of Pomegranate Reverence
Why Persia’s Xerxes armed his soldiers with images of fruit on their spears, rather than spikes, and other pomegranate facts
Do Israeli Startups Even Count on the World Scene? Q&A With David Rosenberg
Only America and Israel can lay claim to achieving technological leadership, but nothing that has changed the world came out of Israel