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Fossiler Schädel verbindet Kontinente

By Guest PostFebruary 21, 2015Scienceafrika, anzahl sichtbarer objekte, bwac, cataclysm, chad mcbride, daten, decluttering, deep learning netzwerk, europa, haley kranstuber horstman, homo sapiens, Israel, jody koenig kellas, keime im wasserkreislauf, khaled nasr, leipzig, lost gift, martin gnass, max planck institut, modern living, noriaki yamaga, ocean network express, second hand economy, tamal bose, thea, universitaet wien, vocs, zahlensinn

Neuer Fund gibt Aufschluss über Einwanderung des modernen Menschen nach Europa

Bisher fehlte jede Spur von jenen modernen Menschen (Homo sapiens), die von Afrika aus ihren Weg nach Norden nahmen, um vor ca. 45.000 Jahren in Europa anzukommen und alle anderen menschlichen Lebensformen zu ersetzen. Nun wurde im Norden Israels in der Manot-Höhle ein Fund gemacht, der diese Lücke im Wissen über unsere eigene Herkunft schließt. Die rund 55.000 Jahre alten Überreste eines Gehirnschädels konnten von einem Team aus israelischen ForscherInnen und Anthropologen der Universität Wien sowie des Max-Planck-Institutes Leipzig mit modernsten Computer-Methoden untersucht werden. Die Ergebnisse, welche einen Teil der Menschheitsgeschichte in Raum und Zeit neu verbinden, erscheinen nun aktuell im Fachjournal “Nature”. (more…)

Biblische Ökosysteme widerstehen mehr als sieben Dürrejahren

By Guest PostOctober 7, 2014Environmentbildqualitaet, celiac disease, eva mayr stihl, healthy older adults, intelligente netze, Israel, las vegas girl, mgm, park theater, pixelstruktur, robert mayr, thomas ussmueller, vegetation

Tübinger Forscherin weist hohe Widerstandskraft der Vegetation im Nahen Osten gegenüber Klimaveränderungen nach

Die Ökosysteme des Nahen Ostens beherbergen eine weltweit einzigartige Artenvielfalt, darunter auch die Vorläufer der wichtigsten Nutzpflanzen. Doch die Klimaszenarien gerade für diese Trockengebiete sind alarmierend: In einer Region, in der bereits jetzt pro Kopf besonders wenig Wasser verfügbar ist, werden in Zukunft noch weniger Niederschläge erwartet. Dies könnte die Funktion dieser Ökosysteme sowie das Überleben wichtiger Arten bedrohen. Ein Forscherteam unter der Leitung von Professorin Katja Tielbörger vom Institut für Evolution und Ökologie der Universität Tübingen hat in Israel Langzeitexperimente durchgeführt, um diese Prognosen zu testen. Über neun Jahre hinweg wurden die artenreichen Pflanzengemeinschaften künstlicher Trockenheit ausgesetzt, wie sie für die Klimaszenarien relevant sind. Auch die Auswirkung von höheren Niederschlägen als üblich untersuchten die Wissenschaftler. Sie wählten vier Ökosysteme entlang eines Trockenheitsgradienten aus, die von extremer Wüste mit 90 Millimetern Jahresniederschlag bis hin zu feucht-mediterranen Bedingungen bei 800 Millimetern Regen im Jahr reichten. (more…)

How do you feed a hungry quasar? With a ‘super boost,’ scientists say

By Guest PostAugust 25, 2014Sciencebenoit vermersch, black holes, early universe, energy drink, feed, Israel, juergen bauhus, nadelholz, priyamvada natarajan, quanten oszillator, quantenkommunikation, scientists, weizmann institute, yale university

The universe’s oldest, brightest beacons may have gorged themselves in the dense, cold, gas flows of the early cosmos — creating a kind of energy drink for infant black holes in the young universe — according to new research by scientists at Yale University and the Weizmann Institute in Israel. (more…)

Confirmed: Stellar Behemoth Self-Destructs in a Type IIb Supernova

By Guest PostJuly 1, 2014Sciencealex filippenko, constance ray, data, eindruck, financial worries, get togethers, hawaii, Israel, keck telescope, kids relax, limit frustration, Milky Way, offenheit, palomar observatory, recoverywell, Relaxation techniques, southern california

Our Sun may seem pretty impressive: 330,000 times as massive as Earth, it accounts for 99.86 percent of the Solar System’s total mass; it generates about 400 trillion trillion watts of power; and it has a surface temperature of about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Yet for a star, it’s a lightweight. (more…)

Elusive leptin

By Guest PostApril 25, 2014Scienceakt1, baaltempel in palmyra, cannabis users, celia morgan, childrens behavior, columba livia, diabetes, dschingis khans, einhorn auf reisen, hormone, imperien im kommen, imperium romanum, Israel, kalten krieg, kathleen vohs, lan chaplin, lipid metabolism, michael gehler, obesity, pathway, psychology of money, psychosis risk, robert rollinger, sowjetunion, species, type 2 diabetes

Researchers find first evidence of fat-regulating hormone in avian species

Since leptin was discovered 20 years ago, more than 115,000 papers have been published on this protein in humans, and another 5,000 have appeared on leptin in mice.

Leptin’s popularity is not surprising, as the hormone is the principal marker for the development of morbid obesity in humans. Leptin and its receptor play critical roles in the control of food intake and energy expenditure, thereby affecting body weight, abdominal fatness, thermogenesis, insulin sensitivity, and lipid metabolism. (more…)

Report shows lack of knowledge about World War One’s global impact

By Guest PostFebruary 21, 2014Politicsahrc, british council, catriona pennell, centenary battlefield, conflict, consequences of war, egypt, first world war, france, global impact, historian, Israel, john worne, lack of knowledge, lasting legacy, middle east, nazis in germany, ottoman empire, palestinians, russia, tours project, united nations, university of exeter, western front, world war one, ww1

A widespread lack of understanding of the global scale and impact of the First World War has been revealed in a new report. Research by the British Council in the UK and six other countries shows that knowledge of the conflict – which began 100 years ago – is largely limited to the fighting on the Western Front.

University of Exeter historian, Dr Catriona Pennell, acted as historical consultant to the report ‘Remember the World as well as the War’. It explores people’s perceptions and knowledge about the First World War and highlights the truly global nature of the conflict and its lasting legacy. This links closely with Dr Pennell’s various research projects, including the ‘First World War in the Classroom’, an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project that seeks to establish how the First World War is taught in English Literature and History classrooms in England, and will provide the data set that will inform the nature and content of the Institute of Education’s WW1 Centenary Battlefield Tours Project. (more…)

Steel drum band

By Guest PostOctober 15, 2013Educationarab children, arab countries, arab muslims, christians in israel, ethiopian community, harvey price, Iraq, Israel, israeli children, jewish, middle east, middle east peace, palestinian, steel drum band, university of delaware

UD’s Price uses music to unite children of different backgrounds

Turmoil has long existed in the Middle East. Now, one University of Delaware faculty member is doing his part to help bring about peace as part of an intrepid music project.

Harvey Price, associate professor of music, is using his connections and knowledge to form a steel drum band in Israel comprising both Jewish and Arab children. Jews and Arabs in the region have long distrusted each other, and Israel, a Jewish nation surrounded by wary Arab countries, has undergone strife since its inception in 1948. (more…)

Tests Conducted on Israel’s Ariel Sharon Reveal Significant Brain Activity

By Guest PostJanuary 29, 2013Healthalon friedman, american, ariel sharon, ben gurion university, brain hemorrhage, brain response, conducted on, evidence, external stimuli, external world, fmri, functional, galia avidan, ilan shelef, Israel, israeli brain scientists, israeli prime minister, level of consciousness, magnetic resonance imaging, martin monti, medical center, negev, neuroscience, reveal, significant brain activity, soroka university, tactile stimulation, tests, tzvi ganel, vegetative state, zlotowski center

Scientists use new methods developed by UCLA’s Martin Monti

A team of American and Israeli brain scientists tested former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to assess his brain responses, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Surprisingly, Sharon showed significant brain activity.

The team consisted of Martin Monti, an assistant professor of psychology and neurosurgery at UCLA, professors Alon Friedman, Galia Avidan and Tzvi Ganel of the Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Dr. Ilan Shelef, head of medical imaging at Israel’s Soroka University Medical Center. (more…)

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