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Can young diabetics safely observe Jewish fasts? Insulin pump tweaks can help, Israeli study finds

A first-of-its-kind Israeli study found that most young people with type 1 diabetes completed Jewish fasts safely, with insulin pump changes improving their chances of success.

 A woman with diabetes is seen using an injection (Illustrative).
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Wolf Foundation, Herzog announce 2026 Wolf Prize Laureates in medicine, physics, chemistry, math

THE NORMAL, healthy cellular architecture of the inner ear.

Israeli scientists help solve genetic mystery linking hearing loss and gray hair

German shepherd barking (illustrative)

Using babies, Israeli study reveals why AI fails to truly understand animal calls


Tel Aviv University, Weizmann scholars among 2026 Landau Prize winners

The total value of the prizes is NIS 1.35 million. Each winner will receive NIS 150,000, including the recipient of a special Avigdor Yitzhaki Prize for nonprofit civil society organizations.

THE JERUSALEM Piyyut Ensemble.

Galilee Eco Center: regenerative agriculture, healing in the Galilee

The Galilee Eco Center aims to restore land, combining sustainable farming and science.

(From L) Avi Freidman, Ariela Solomon, and Yael Maoz at the site of the future Galilee Eco Center, this year.

Bold vs cautious: Raven personalities shape survival in a changing desert - study

Ravens willing to take risks get easy access to food near humans but still face higher mortality rates.

A Fan-Tailed raven, in Mitzpe Shalem, near the Dead Sea.

New Israeli-led AI model to predict chemotherapy benefit in breast cancer

Technion researchers part of international study that validates fast, accessible alternative to genomic tests using routine pathology samples.

Cancer Cell Spread and oncology or Malignant Cancerous Growth and Metastasis anatomy concept as growing tumor cells and Malignancy disease spreading metastasized as a 3D illustration.

Breathing life into buildings: Israelis develop better ways to prevent indoor air pollution 

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem suggest that vertical green walls, along with AI-inspired technology, offer a natural solution.

THE VERTICAL green walls are transferred from decorative features into intelligent, responsive environmental systems

Water on Mars? Scientists discover 'bathtub ring' which may reveal contours of ancient ocean

Like Earth and the solar system's other planets, Mars formed roughly 4.5 billion years ago. Early in its history, Mars was warmer and wetter than the cold and arid place it is today.

A "selfie" taken by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, made up of 62 individual images, on July 23, in this image released on September 10, 2025

Pricing the battlefield: What a human life costs on the defense stock exchange -opinion

Drones are disposable. Soldiers aren’t. Low‑cost weapons are now forcing nations into high‑cost defense decisions

Battlefield 6.

Newly discovered fossil challenges idea of ape origins in east Africa - study

The remains, discovered in 2023 and 2024, are incomplete, and made up of only a few jawbone fragments and worn teeth. 

Image from Apes and monkeys, Their life and language; illustrative.

Iran’s ‘jihad of knowledge’ was never about its people - opinion

How the Islamic Republic weaponized science, hollowed out its universities, and left its citizens to pay the price

The ‘jihad of knowledge’ is a state doctrine, introduced by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated by Israel and the US in the opening strike of the current war.

Israel's noise pollution upsets animals as much as people - but can be reduced, study finds

Researchers at Beersheba’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have pioneered a first-of-its-kind spatial model that maps how road noise disrupts animal behavior.

  Israeli drivers and roads are notorious for being among the worst worldwide.