Korean and U.S. scientists find we and chimps have amped-up fight-or-flight reactions written into our DNA, and so do some bonobos, which may be the result of a genetic reaction to the threat of slaughter
And if they haven't gotten laid, fruit flies demonstrate a desire to get drunk. Studying pleasure in Drosophila neurons could help us better understand and treat the mechanisms of addiction in humans brain, researchers say
The suicidal ant C. Explodens blows itself up when attacked, spraying victims with toxic glue that binds them together forever more
From Tel Aviv to the Sea of Galilee - why can't we keep Israel clean?
Ibuprofen and paracetamol taken during pregnancy can cause epigenetic changes in the fetus' ovarian or testicular tissues, damaging their fertility in adulthood
In the same way people don't notice a gorilla when they're concentrating on counting a basketball being tossed between people, Spanish researchers say the same theory may apply to recognizing alien lifeforms
Israelis should definitely fear serious earthquakes in their future, but not necessarily because of the crack that suddenly opened up near Nairobi last month
Israel has made headway by tenderly digging up and collecting precious eggs from the beaches to hatch them where it’s safe, but green sea turtles are still critically endangered
Children of consanguineous relations are three times likelier to be prescribed anti-depressants, double as likely to be given anti-psychotic drugs, vast Irish study finds
Four-foot monitor which lived 49 million years ago in Wyoming indicates that the third eye in lizards evolved independently from everyone else's third eye, which had not been expected
Israeli scientists are exploring how population control can be achieved by mimicking the sounds bugs make – a lot better than spraying nasty chemicals
Instead of asking you to turn your phone off, New York theaters already allow viewers of shows such as "Chicago" and “School of Rock” to use a new app which provides dubbing and subtitles and even helps those not fluent in English
Which elements of relationships fan passion, and how the pill disrupts women's ability to find a partner, according to sex researcher Gurit Birnbaum
A new paper spells out your druthers: You can have more warnings and be safer, or calibrate the system to make you jump when it really matters – which could be a tad late
Around the year 874, Vikings and Celts seeking safe haven reached Iceland and were terrified as a mighty year-long lava flood engulfed their world – a horror that drove mass conversion, a new study proposes
Cambridge Analytica - that worked on Trump's election campaign and gained improper access to data on 50 million Facebook users - also used bribes to entrap politicians
Study found risk of developing cancer was higher for soldiers who were exposed to radio frequency radiation
Mission includes archaeologists fixing up water systems that haven't been maintained in 1,100 years and trimming wasteful leafage as climate change slams the Middle East
Finding seal marks ostensibly from Isaiah the Prophet and Hezekiah within mere feet of each other in Jerusalem is intriguing; so are other seals of other non-visionary Isaiahs found in Israel from that time
The solenodon of Hispaniola turns out to be single species, not more, but after over 74 million years on the planet, the smelly little poisonous rodent is on the brink of extinction
Stephen Hawking was critical of Israel and supported BDS, but also visited Israel a number of times and based his revolutionary theory on the works of an Israeli scientist
The new amendment introduced by the Health Ministry will take effect in a month; many patients using the drug have complained before of restricted movement since they were not permitted to drive at all
Living with ALS, Hawking became one of the world's leading experts on gravity and discovered the ability of black holes to emit sub-atomic particles
New survey finds unknown pockets of the garish amphibians in city wadis, giving hope they thrive in secret forest corners
Motivated by economic need, environmental awareness and public relations, local governments look to bio-gas, solar energy and reusing construction waste
Land subsidence plus rising sea levels equals big problem for 2 billion people living on or near the coast, especially those in megacities such as San Francisco, Shanghai and Tokyo
Little starlets get eaten by one set of predators, adults by a different set, and they also need to hunt, explain Hebrew University scientists on unexpected discovery of morphing venom
Incredibly preserved fossil found in Spain by long-extinct lake shows the chick, smaller than your pinkie, may have needed its parents
The unusual letter, allegedly penned by the Israeli Defense Ministry in 2015 and published by Motherbaord, shows that Israel tried to get U.S. companies to sell advanced technologies it wanted
The discovery provides a direction for new research to find this fundamental but poorly understood building block of the universe
What’s the connection between dinosaurs and dark matter? What is the glue that holds the universe together? Is there a fourth – and fifth – dimension? These are just some of the questions that occupy Lisa Randall, the first female physicist to get tenure at Princeton, Harvard and MIT
People revolted by smell of others’ sweat, urine are drawn to authoritarian leadership, Stockholm researchers find
Arab rights group asks the High Court to issue interim order against policy that constitutes 'harsh and demeaning religious coercion'
Sleeping takes up a third of our lives, but essential mysteries about the process have yet to be unraveled
The use of desalinated water for irrigation around the country has increased from 32 to 80 percent, says Israel's Water Authority
The question of how the brain's convolutions develop has preoccupied brain researchers for years
A university tackles the #EpicDuckChallenge: What's better at counting the wild rubber duck, professional wildlife spotters or a drone and software program?
'Oozing gun' of layered invisible micro-animals and clay explains how gigantic slides happen on practically flat surfaces under the sea, causing huge tsunamis
The extreme genetic bottleneck could doom the domesticated chickpea, unless a wild variant from Turkey rides in to save the day
A report by the Environmental Protection Ministry also warns that Israel’s coastal waters are being used for energy production and infrastructure, which could damage the ecology of the Sea of Galilee
Fire ants, who have infested nearly 300 Israeli communities, are a painful and pricey problem: 'If I see an ordinary black ant in my house, I hug it'
The desolate desert of southern Oman resembles Mars so much that more than 200 scientists from 25 nations chose it as their location for field-testing
Increased levels of pollution reported in the Poleg and Alexander rivers from sewage and agricultural fertilizer
From 2013 to 2016, the rates of dually-resistant gonorrhea in China climbed from 1.9 percent to 3.3 percent
Genetic studies show last common ancestor of today’s household pest began evolving over 300 million years ago, before the super-continent of Pangaea even began to break up
Breakthrough solves problem of blood-borne bacteria, which can cause fatal sepsis, simply falling off filter meshes and stiff nano-wires
The virus is most common in poor Israeli-Arab neighborhoods with open sewers ■ The average infection rate in Israel is 88 people per year
Diego Prilusky, the man who’s helping take Intel into the movie business, tells Haaretz how lots of cameras create lots of 3-D experiences
They didn’t evolve in the desert but grapevines are bizarrely resistant to developing embolisms that kill other drought-stricken plants, which could help explain the 8000-year old wine industry
Artificial sweeteners cause cancer? Only in mice. Eggs increase cholesterol? Nonsense. Red meat is dangerous? The alternative is a lot more so. Dr. Aaron Carroll, author of 'The Bad Food Bible,' wants to put sanity back on the dinner table
