Author: David Rutman

While marriage or long-term relationships are often considered the norm, more people are choosing to remain single throughout their lives. However, this can lead to economic and health-related disadvantages, particularly in later life when individuals may become more dependent on others. New research in Psychological Science reveals that lifelong singles have lower scores on life […]

NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun has endured another incredible milestone. On December 24, 2024, the Parker Solar Probe braved a record-breaking close encounter with our star, soaring through the solar atmosphere at a blistering 430,000 miles per hour—faster than any object ever created by humans—and coming within just 3.8 million miles of the Sun’s […]

Israel Tech Startups and Innovations: Weekly Roundup December 21 – December 27, 2024 New Startups / VC FundingIsraeli Startup FIZE Medical Launches Early Kidney Disease Detection Device with Advanced Fluid Monitoring TechnologyFIZE Medical is an Israeli medtech startup that offers the FIZE-kUO, a groundbreaking device, anchoring FIZE’s fluid management platform technology, detects early signs of […]

Iceland boasts a long and rich literary tradition dating back to the Middle Ages. Remarkably, for a nation of only 380,000 people, it has produced a wealth of renowned writers; it’s even been said that half of all Icelanders write books. “Previously, the theory was that Iceland was so dark and barren that the Icelanders […]

Professor Sangmin Lee of POSTECH’s Department of Chemical Engineering, working with 2024 Nobel Chemistry Laureate Professor David Baker of the University of Washington, has developed a novel AI-driven therapeutic platform that mimics complex viral structures. Their groundbreaking research was published in Nature. Viruses, with their spherical protein shells designed to encapsulate genetic material for replication […]

The rapid rate at which human-caused climate change is altering terrestrial carbon stores threatens to undermine current mitigation efforts unless behavioral changes are implemented quickly. Using a dozen long-term global GPP Gross Primary Production datasets, scientists from Nanjing Agricultural University quantified the evolution of global GPP trends. Anthropogenic climate change has been a prominent issue […]