Tag: Science

If he smells your tears, he will be more compassionate

A new study showed that sniffing women’s tears lowered brain activity related to aggression in men, reducing aggressive behavior.

King David’s Purple Cloth Unearthed

“The color immediately attracted our attention, but we found it hard to believe," one of the archeologists said. 

Researchers say we can’t ignore Internet cats anymore!

There are more than 92 million cat videos posted on YouTube, and they attract more views per video than...

10-year-old Emirati wunderkid already has 7 patents to his name

There seems to be a tremendous struggle happening in the Middle East - a fight between the good guys,...

The ‘original iPad’ – 1,200 years before Apple

Turkish archaeologists have unearthed what Discovery News calls the 'Byzantine iPad." Dated to the 9th century A.D., the wooden tool was found among a shipyard...

Ancient “Weed” Could Save Middle East Wheat

A particularly virulent strain of stem rust that first struck Uganda's wheat crops in1999 before it spread up into...

16-year-old Turkish Teen Makes Bioplastic from Banana Peels

Meet Elif Bilgin, the latest in a string of wunderkids from the Middle East and North Africa, who invented...

Dogs Detect Cancer Cells in Petri Dish

Could woman's best friend be the missing link in the diagnoses of aggressive breast cancer types? Researchers at Ben Gurion...

A Greener Sahara for Elephants and Hippos – 5,000 Years Ago

Researchers keen to understand the role that dust plays in climate change have discovered that 5,000 years ago, what...

Austrian Space Forum Dispatches Mars Mission to Morocco!

Mars is red and so is the Sahara desert, but the similarities between the two run deeper than that....

Nanophotonic Building Panels Beam Sunlight and Heat into Cold Space

We've developed a new type of structure that reflects the vast majority of sunlight, while at the same time it sends heat into that coldness, which cools manmade structures even in the day time

Israeli Military Uses Biomimicry to Design Butterfly Drone

Biomimicry is one of the smartest contemporary approaches to design, so it was inevitable that Israeli researchers would apply...