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The 3-D morphology of tubes reflecting the paths of movement through the sediment.

2.1 Billion Years Ago, a Creature Was Moving on Earth

Fossil tunnels up to seven inches long found in Gabon attest to motile life 1.5 billion years earlier than thought

American soldiers in Iraq in 2008, between 11%-20% of soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from PTSD.

Party Drug or Breakthrough Treatment? Israel Approves Compassionate Use of MDMA to Treat PTSD

Recreational use of MDMA, also known as ecstasy, is forbidden in Israel where the drug is considered dangerous. But a trial treatment may soon change that

Newly discovered catfish named for Connie Keller, a supporter of conservation science

‘Fish Superheroes’ Six New Species of Tentacle-faced Fish Discovered in the Amazon

Truth be told, as tentacle-faced beings go, these catfish are ‘hideously adorable’ as their devoted discoverer suggests

File Photo: A regular user of soft drugs demonstrates how to smoke a marijuana joint in a coffee shop in Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 24, 2008.

Moderate Marijuana Use Can Raise Sperm Count, Surprising Study Shows

Perhaps weed boosts the fertility system, or alternatively, perhaps it's the testosterone-heavy among us who smoke marijuana in the first place

Women who wear Muslim garments in court are viewed as more credible witnesses

Study Debunks Bias: Women in Muslim Garb Are Considered Most Credible Sexual Assault Victims

Be it a veil or balaclava hiding the face, the woman whose expression can’t be seen is believed the most, small Canadian study is startled to find

This undated fluorescence-colored microscope image made available by the National Institutes of Health in September 2016 shows a culture of human breast cancer cells

'Highly Irresponsible:' Israeli Company Claims to Have a Cure for Cancer, but Scientists Say Not So Fast

Scientists quickly rejected the claims, calling them 'spurious,' 'unsubstantiated' and even 'cruel'

FILE PHOTO: A tattooed model presents a creation by designer Maxime Simoens, Paris, France, January 21, 2019.

Tattoos Can Cause Burns in MRI Scanners, Doctors Warn

Risk of side effects is very small, but if that’s ferrous ink in your tat don’t be surprised if your skin is suddenly attracted to the machine

A sandbar shark is examined by researchers from the predator project of the Morris Kahn Marine Research Station, established by the University of Haifa, in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the northern Israeli city of Hadera.

'The Spectacle Is Very Mysterious': Sharks Drawn to Israeli Coastal Plant Emitting Warm Water

Although unable to fully explain the phenomenon, scientists point out that the sharks' draw to the the warm water around the Hadera plant parallels their migration to the warming Mediterranean

Early Dinosaur Bird Had Four Wings but Still Couldn’t Fly

Paravian dinosaur Anchiornis had the wrong sort of protein in the feathers for proper flight, Chinese scientists conclude from molecular study

I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face, and This Nerve Cell Explains Why

Fifty years after finding specific face-recognition neurons in monkeys, they’ve been found in some guy who had electrodes implanted in his visual cortex

Tethymyxine tapirostrum, is a 100-million-year-old, 12-inch long fish embedded in a slab of Cretaceous period limestone from Lebanon, believed to be the first detailed fossil of a hagfish.

100-million-year-old Fossil Slime Shakes Tree of Vertebrate Evolution

Lebanese fossil of a hagfish and its slime shield from the Cretaceous supports contention that these eyeless, spineless sea creatures used to be real fish, then regressed

Artist's impression of a gas disk feeding a massive black hole, while emitting radiation

Israeli Scientists See the Light About Supermassive Black Holes

Strange light spectrum observed from suddenly growing black hole at galaxy’s center leads to epiphany about how these gigantic space structures grow

Artist's impression of Basilosaurus cetoides

Alpha Predator Whale Bit Off Heads of Prey 30 Million Years Ago

Basilosaurus isis was a top predator that lurked in calving grounds and hunted the babies of smaller whales, suggest paleontologists studying a fossil cluster in Egypt

Pacific Depths Likely to Keep Warming for Centuries Even if We Decarbonize Now, Study Shows

The slow-circulating deep Pacific is still cooling almost 200 years after the Little Ice Age ended, with worrying implications for the anthropogenic age

Adults seem prone to developing seafood allergies

Think You Have an Allergy? Two to One You’re Wrong

Only 10 percent of adults have food allergies but twice that number think they do, huge new study shows, and yes, adult-onset allergy is a thing

Growth of the newly discovered Streptomyces sp. myrophorea, so named because it produces a distinctive fragrance similar to that of oil of wintergreen. Although superficially resembling fungi, Streptomyces are true bacteria and are the source of two-thirds of the various frontline antibiotics used in medicine.

Bacteria Discovered in Irish Dirt Kills Superbugs

A previously unknown germ found in Northern Ireland soil that had been ascribed with 'healing properties' actually inhibits four of six huge superbugs, scientists report in Frontiers in Microbiology

'Peace Between Science and Religion': Why Teen Biohacker Injected 'Scriptural' DNA Into His Body

Adrien Locatelli of Grenoble, 16, aspired to bridge between faith and facts and seems mainly to have wound up inoculating himself against E. coli

A well-preserved twig of a podocarp conifer; fossils like this from Permian sedimentary rocks exposed along the shore of the Dead Sea shed new light on the early origins of major seed-plant lineages.

Fossils Unexpectedly Discovered in Jordan Change Paradigm of Plant Evolution

Paleobotanists thought seed plants evolved after the Permian mass extinction, but fossils of early pine trees and other gymnosperms found by the Dead Sea alter timeline

A girl patient holds one of the bees as she receives bee-sting treatment by health practitioner Haj Omar Abulhassan at his home in Cairo, Egypt, November 10, 2018.

How the Hell Do You Vaccinate a Bee?

Scientists propose to inoculate bees against deadly diseases reportedly decimating their colonies lest we all starve, and no, vaccines don’t cause autism in insects either

Astronomers spot gigantic relic of disrupted tadpole galaxy: The core of Hickson's Compact Group 98 consists of the two "smudges" at the center of the image. Each is a galaxy much like our own Milky Way. The point between them is a foreground star as are other circular features in the image. The tadpole structure covers the central galaxy pair and was formed when the pair demolished a much smaller galaxy.

Astronomers Spot Ghost of Disrupted Tadpole Galaxy

A billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy started to lose its stars to two giants next door. A team of scientists, including two Israelis, have found its remains in the endless night of space

Vacuum chamber being installed in SESAME's dipole magnet

The Middle Eastern Particle Accelerator Is Gearing Up, Handmade Parts and All

Less than 70 particle accelerators exist in the world, nearly all in Europe and the United States. In May, Jordan got one. The idea of building this kind of research facility in the Middle East was an outgrowth of the Oslo Accords. Will it draw Israeli scientists?

Sigmund Freud as he poses for sculptor Oscar Nemon in Vienna, 1931.

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