World’s oldest clay pots found in China
June 30th, 2012 - 7:49 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 30 (IANS) Archaeologists have found pottery fragments in China that are 20,000 years old, making them the world's oldest known specimens, it was reported here.Earlier theories have held ... Read more...
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Einstein’s letters, documents go online
March 20th, 2012 - 12:29 pm ICT by IANS
Jerusalem, March 20 (IANS) A website launched by a university in Israel has catalogued more than 80,000 of Albert Einstein's collected papers and notes and personal correspondence, including love letters.The ... Read more...
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More Israelis, Palestinians willing to compromise: Poll
December 29th, 2011 - 5:03 am ICT by IANS
Jerusalem, Dec 29 (IANS) A growing number of Israelis and Palestinians are inclined to accept compromises that would enable their governments to reach a peace agreement, a survey has said.The ... Read more...
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Six Indian Americans named 2012 Rhodes scholars
November 26th, 2011 - 11:36 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Nov 26 (IANS) Six Indian American university students have been chosen the American Rhodes Scholar Class of 2012 out of a pool of 830 candidates who had been ... Read more...
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Israel using saltwater, sewage to grow trees in desert
November 25th, 2011 - 7:40 pm ICT by IANS
Jerusalem, Nov 25 (IANS) Scientists in Israel are growing trees in the barren land of the Arava desert by using recycled sewage and saltwater.This forest planted over the summer is ... Read more...
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Israeli play gets an Indian avatar
September 23rd, 2011 - 3:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 23 (IANS) Israel top's contemporary playwright, Motti Lerner, has a slice of India in his heart. One of his Hebrew plays has been given an Indian avatar ... Read more...
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‘Even German civilians took part in killing concentration camp survivors’
January 18th, 2011 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 18 (ANI): A new book 'The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide' by author Daniel Blatman chronicles how German civilians murdered many concentration camp survivors.The book depicts how ... Read more...
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Dead Sea air filled with high levels of oxidized Mercury
November 30th, 2010 - 7:08 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 30 (ANI): A group of scientists has recently discovered that the atmosphere over the Dead Sea is laden with oxidized mercury which is causing interesting effects in the air above ... Read more...
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Archeologists Unearth Palaeolithic Funeral Feast In Israel
September 2nd, 2010 - 7:15 pm ICT by GD
By Madhuri Dey
Sep 2, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Archaeologists working in Hilazon Tachtit, in Northern Israel have been able to unearth remains of a large feast that is supposed to be around 12,000 years ... Read more...
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Express your emotions to make more friends
July 9th, 2010 - 1:50 pm ICT by ANI
New York, July 9 (ANI): Poker-faced people who stay emotionally guarded no matter what situation they face have trouble making friends, say experts.According to The New York Times, psychologists found that students ... Read more...
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Now, software to detect sarcasm
May 20th, 2010 - 2:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 20 (ANI): Israeli researchers have developed a computer algorithm capable of identifying sarcasm in written text.Devised by computer scientists at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the algorithm could pave the ... Read more...
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Einstein’s manuscript displayed at Shanghai expo
May 7th, 2010 - 9:44 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, May 7 (IANS) Two pages of the original manuscript of Albert Einstein's landmark theory of relativity are on display at the Israeli pavilion in the Shanghai World Expo.
Israeli Minister of Finance ... Read more...
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Gene boosts yield of hybrid tomatoes
April 7th, 2010 - 3:06 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 7 (IANS) Researchers have boosted yields and improved taste of hybrid tomato, thanks to a single gene.
The discovery was patented by Yissum, the technology transfer arm of the Hebrew University, ... Read more...
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‘Modern’ living was invented by Homo Erectus, not Homo Sapiens
January 14th, 2010 - 3:27 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 14 (ANI): Modern living may have originated roughly 500,000 years earlier than it is believed and was actually invented by Homo Erectus-our hairy, heavy-browed ancestor species- and not the ... Read more...
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Christ-era discovery suggests Turin Shroud is a hoax
December 16th, 2009 - 7:20 pm ICT by ANI
London, December 16 (ANI): A team of archeologists has discovered the first known pieces of a burial shroud from the time of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem, casting doubt on the authenticity of ... Read more...
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God is not going to destroy ‘Big Bang Machine’, says physicist
October 29th, 2009 - 2:55 pm ICT by ANI
Jerusalem, October 29 (ANI): A scientist has dismissed claims by theoretical physicists that the mysterious Higgs Boson particle, which is popularly known as the "God particle", will "ripple backward through time" ... Read more...
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Active elders live longer: Study
September 18th, 2009 - 12:51 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 18 (IANS) Older adults who exercise seem to live longer and have a lower risk of disability, says a new study.
Jochanan Stessman and colleagues at Hebrew University Medical Centre and ... Read more...
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Brain’s ‘alert status’ opens up new ways of treating coma: Study
September 15th, 2009 - 3:39 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 15 (IANS) An 'alert status' area in the brain potentially opens up new ways of treating insomnia, excessive sleepiness, reversible coma or loss of consciousness, says a new study.
Hebrew University ... Read more...
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New way to reduce tumour-risk factor in stem cell therapy unveiled
May 7th, 2009 - 12:48 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 7 (ANI): Paving the way for advancement in the field of stem cell therapy, scientists have discovered a method to potentially eliminate the tumour-risk factor in utilizing human embryonic stem ... Read more...
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Frogs provide clues about alcohol’s effects during pregnancy
April 6th, 2009 - 2:12 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Apr 6 (ANI): Scientists have successfully used the African frog Xenopus as a tool to identify important clues about the effects of maternal consumption of alcohol in early pregnancy.As the ... Read more...
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Dead Sea Scrolls may have been work of the Sadducees
March 19th, 2009 - 1:05 pm ICT by ANI
London, March 19 (ANI): An academic from Jerusalem has claimed that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of the Sadducees, a class of Jewish priests dating back to the time ... Read more...
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‘Greed plunged current economy into global crisis’
January 12th, 2009 - 11:28 am ICT by IANS
Washington , Jan 12 (IANS) Greed may have plunged the current economy into global crisis, for which both individual and increasingly materialistic culture are to blame."America has an economic system set up ... Read more...
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IVF drugs may increase womb cancer risk
December 11th, 2008 - 1:54 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 11 (ANI): A new study by Israeli researchers has found that drugs designed to help women conceive may increase the risk of cancer of womb.Fertility drugs have been in ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Israeli leaders donning Obama-like champions of change mantle to win polls
November 12th, 2008 - 7:09 pm ICT by ANI
Tel Aviv, Nov.12 (ANI): Israeli leaders Tzipi Livni and Benjamin Netanyahu are competing to cast themselves as Obama-like champions of change, clean government and bipartisanship in their respective bids to win ... Read more...
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Oldest Hebrew text may provide evidence for Biblical stories
November 4th, 2008 - 2:38 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): The oldest known Hebrew text, found in Israel, could lend historical support to some Bible stories, including the one about King David.According to a report in National ... Read more...
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Oldest Hebrew script found in Israel
October 31st, 2008 - 1:38 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 31 (ANI): An archaeologist in Israel has said that five lines of ancient script on a shard of pottery could be the oldest example of Hebrew writing ever discovered.According ... Read more...
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Scientists grow eggs from five-year-old girls with cancer
October 27th, 2008 - 6:20 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 27 (ANI): Scientists from Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centre in Jerusalem have successfully grown eggs from tissue taken from five-year-old girls suffering from cancer.The breakthrough offers a ray ... Read more...
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How aerosols affect the when, where and how much of rainfall
September 10th, 2008 - 4:13 pm ICT by ANI
Berlin, September 10 (ANI): A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, has discovered how aerosols affect the when, where and how much of rainfall, ... Read more...
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Phallic figurines and oddly arranged human remains found in Israel
September 6th, 2008 - 5:12 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 6 (ANI): Archaeologists have found prehistoric graves with an unusual abundance of phallic figurines and oddly arranged human remains in Israel, which date back to the Stone Age.
According to ... Read more...
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Study highlights decision-making, risk-taking similarities between bees and humans
June 14th, 2008 - 5:48 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 14 (ANI): Israeli researchers have discovered that humans and bees share are quite similar to each other in terms of decision making and risk taking.A study by researchers ... Read more...
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Sweat duct shape reveals emotional state
April 29th, 2008 - 4:11 pm ICT by admin
London, April 29 (IANS) Remote sensing of our bodily and emotional states is likely to have enormous implications for diagnostics, biomedical engineering, anti-terror and security fields. The key lies in the surprising ... Read more...
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ACM-Infosys Foundation award for Stanford professor
April 28th, 2008 - 8:23 pm ICT by admin
Bangalore, April 28 (IANS) Stanford University professor Daphne Koller has been chosen for the first ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in computing sciences for her innovative approach to artificial intelligence (AI) that allows computers ... Read more...
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Dictatorship may lie in ones genes
April 5th, 2008 - 1:12 pm ICT by admin
Washington , Apr 5 (ANI): The ruthless behaviour of history's infamous dictatorsHitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Benito Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, and Robert Mugabeand that of certain bosses at workplaces, often nicknamed little Hitler ... Read more...
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Israeli hospitals using virtual reality therapy for stroke patients
March 11th, 2008 - 3:19 pm ICT by admin
Washington, March 11 (ANI): Hospitals in Israel have started to involve virtual reality in the treatment of stroke patients.As part of the therapy, a computer program is used which helps in ... Read more...
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Unconscious goal pursuit can help people achieve their targets
March 9th, 2008 - 1:13 pm ICT by admin
Washington , Mar 9 (ANI): We are often aware of our conscious decisions that help us achieve our goals, however to what extent we can count on our unconscious processes is something ... Read more...
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