Two ancient stone coffins that may have once held the remains of a husband and wife have been rediscovered in a wildlife park near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Source: https://www.livescience.com/israel-sarcophagi-husband-wife-discovered.html
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Mysterious oil spill covers Israel’s coastline in toxic tar balls
Israel’s Mediterranean coastline has been littered with tar as the result of an oil spill off the coast, putting marine life and those cleaning it up at risk. Source: https://www.livescience.com/tar-washes-up-on-israel-beaches.html
America Has Vaccinated More People Than Any Other Country in the World
Despite America’s vast population of nearly 330 million people, 42.8 million Americans have already received one or both doses of a Covid-19 vaccine. Axios writes: The U.S. has carried out more vaccinations than any country in the world, and given a first dose to a higher percentage of its population (12%) than all but five countries: Israel, the Seychelles, the UAE,…
Dark streaks on Mars may be caused by salts and melting ice
Researchers at the SETI Institute say that unusual dark streaks on sun-facing slopes on Mars, debated about for years, may be small landslides caused by a combination of salts and melting ice just below the surface. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/mars-dark-streaks-melting-ice-recurring-slope-lineae…
Machines Are Inventing New Math We’ve Never Seen
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: [A] group of researchers from the Technion in Israel and Google in Tel Aviv presented an automated conjecturing system that they call the Ramanujan Machine, named after the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, who developed thousands of innovative formulas in number theory with almost no formal training. The software system has already conjectured several original…
Rare purple textiles from the time of biblical kings found for the first time in Israel
Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered 3,000-year-old textiles stained with a valuable purple dye made from Mediterranean mollusks. Source: https://www.livescience.com/rare-purple-textiles-discovered-israel.html
UK advisers warn that covid-19 vaccines may not cut transmission
Patrick Vallance, chief scientific adviser to the UK government, has urged caution when it comes to interpreting preliminary data from Israel on how much covid-19 vaccines can reduce transmission Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2266150-uk-advisers-warn-that-covid-19-vaccines-may-not-cut-transmission/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
UK advisers cautious about how much covid-19 vaccines cut transmission
Patrick Vallance, chief scientific adviser to the UK government, has urged caution when it comes to interpreting preliminary data from Israel on how much covid-19 vaccines can reduce transmission Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2266150-uk-advisers-cautious-about-how-much-covid-19-vaccines-cut-transmission/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
1,500-year-old ‘Christ, born of Mary’ inscription discovered in Israel
An excavation revealed a previously unknown church and inscription, possibly dating to Byzantine times. Source: https://www.livescience.com/christ-born-of-mary-church-artifact.html
Raids in Israel uncover ‘gargantuan’ trove of stolen artifacts
Israeli officials have recovered a cache of thousands of stolen archaeological artifacts from all over the world. Source: https://www.livescience.com/cache-stolen-artifacts-recovered-israel.html