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  Researchers exploring the Umm Jirsan Lava Tube system.

Humans occupied lava tube in northern Saudi Arabia as shelter for thousands of years

 Researchers found that pretzel size affects the consumer's eating rate, with smaller sizes leading to a slower eating speed and smaller bites.

US study suggests that pretzel size affects eating behavior

A woman holds a cat at the Cat Jungle, a place where people interact with cats in Amman, Jordan, August 2, 2022.

Cats can communicate through urine - study reveals

 This image, taken with the VLT Survey Telescope, shows the nebula NGC 6164/6165, also known as the Dragon’s Egg, surrounding a pair of stars called HD 148937.

Massive stars may get magnetic fields when two stars merge together - study

 A basketball passing through a hoop.

A friendly pat on the back can improve performance in basketball

 Thinking icon.

People, including Israeli leaders, have difficulty making decisions, taking responsibility - study

A scheme illustrating the formation of stable peptide-stabilized emulsions. Upon binding the metal ions, the peptide becomes amphiphilic and can stabilize emulsions.

This multifunctional system can send drugs where they can be effective in body’s tissues, organs

 Group photo - from left to right: Top row: Rawan Zaatry, Shaqed Carasso, Haitham Hajjo. Bottom row: Dana Kadosh-Kariti, Dr. Itai Sharon, Prof. Naama Geva-Zatorsky, Dr. Tal Gefen.

Intestinal bacteria changes in reaction to inflammation, effecting immune system, study finds

 The leaf litter frog (Haddadus binotatus) emits a distress call at frequencies that humans cannot hear but predators can.

Amphibians use scream inaudible to humans for self-defense against predators, new study suggests

 Prof. Ayelet David's lab team (from right to left): Marie Rütter, Yvonne Ventura, Nenad Milošević and Valeria Feinstein.

Beersheba team creates treatment for colorectal cancer that has spread in the body

 Woman with lazy eye (illustrative)

Innovating diagnoses: American researchers assess autism with eye reflex exam

Salam Diabat

Bedouin grandmothers' of autistic children transform lives, study demonstrates

 Four-legged friends provide support at Rambam Health Care Campus

Dogs can be trained to detect PTSD with their noses

 Palestinian firemen extinguish a fire at a landfill in Juhr al-Deek, southeast of Gaza City, September 3, 2023.

Aerial surveys show US landfills are major source of methane emissions

By REUTERS
 Research from West Virginia University suggests that employee motivation and productivity may increase when game-like elements such as progress bars and badges that are integrated into monotonous industrial jobs.

In order to cope with the boredom of doing monotonous work, making it a game works better

 Easter bunny (illustrative)

Most rabbit owners can recognize pain in their pets but not subtler kinds, study finds

  Illustration of elephant hunting using spears

New Tel Aviv University study claims connection with elephant hunting, Paleolithic quarries

 DNA, where genetics live. (Illustrative).

Beethoven had great genes, but not for beat synchronization