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Does your stomach hurt and you can’t find a reason? A study found a natural treatment that helps

The study offers new hope to millions of people: A natural treatment, scientifically controlled, that has proven relief of symptoms and improvement in quality of life – with a good safety profile.

Abdominal pain
After a long career at the Anti-Defamation League, Aryeh Tuchman has left for a senior role at the Nexus Project, an antisemitism watchdog group that is often critical of the ADL.

Senior ADL antisemitism researcher leaves to lead competing effort at watchdog Nexus

The implications go beyond farming efficiency: Prof. Ilya Gelfand's research in Hatzeva.

How a Ben-Gurion University scientist is filling climate science’s biggest blank spots

Demonstrators hold placards and flags in support of Palestinians during a protest in relation to the ceasefire in Gaza, in Dublin, Ireland, January 24, 2026.

Spread of online antisemitic conspiracies is based on Holocaust denial tactics, research shows


Daily coffee cuts atrial fibrillation recurrence risk by 39%, JAMA study finds

In the six-month DECAF randomized trial, 47 percent of coffee drinkers experienced recurrent atrial fibrillation or flutter versus 64 percent among those who avoided caffeine.

Coffee.

Lonvi Biosciences claims grape seed tablet may let humans live to 150 years

China’s government has made longevity research a national priority alongside artificial intelligence and biotechnology, according to a New York Times report.

Senior man takes pill with glass of water in hand.

Excavations resume at ancient Ugarit near Latakia after 14-year pause

Ugarit is famous for its vast archive of clay tablets inscribed in seven languages, considered among the oldest records of bronze age political and social life.

Archaeological excavations.

'Death-Ball Sponge' discovered in deep sea exploration in the South Sandwich Islands

Scientists observed the spherical body, covered with hooks that trapped small animals, a feeding strategy unlike the passive filtration used by most sponges.

'Death-Ball Sponge' discovered in deep sea exploration in the South Sandwich Islands.

Ancient shipwreck appears on Hoi An beach, dated by experts to 14th–16th century

Researchers say the 17m hybrid craft, found 400m from former Cẩm An ward office, is among Vietnam’s best-preserved underwater relics and will undergo urgent excavation.

Ancient shipwreck resurfaces on Hoi An beach, experts place vessel in fourteenth to sixteenth century.

TAU researchers develop groundbreaking gene therapy to treat hearing, balance disabilities

“These findings highlight the potential of self-complementary AAVs to reduce dose requirements, minimize toxicity, and broaden clinical use of inner-ear therapies," said the head researcher.

RONI HAHN (left) and Prof. Karen Avraham.

Artificial sweeteners help obese people lose 1.6 kg in a year and improve gut bacteria

WHO recommends against using low-calorie sweeteners for weight control, citing risks of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

Artificial Sweeteners.

Spider megacolony of 111,000 found weaving record web in Sulfur Cave on Greece-Albania border

Published in the journal Subterranean Biology, the find marks the first documented colonial behavior in Tegenaria domestica and Prinerigone vagans.

Spider megacolony of 111,000 found weaving record web in Sulfur Cave on Greece-Albania border.

Archeologists find evidence of a 5,000-year-old earthquake in Turkey

Assoc. Prof. Savaş Sarıalioğlu said no burned debris, charcoal, or domestic waste was found under the collapsed slab, and the pottery matched the structure’s construction phase.

Earthquake.

Researchers think the largest and oldest monumental Maya site is a map of the universe

The site's layout follows the solar movement and “is comparable to, or even greater than, those of later Mesoamerican cities.”

Researchers think the largest and oldest monumental Maya site is a map of the universe.