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Is AI clairvoyant? ChatGPT can make personality tests and predict responses, Israeli study finds

Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) scientists have developed a method for generating personality assessment questionnaires with ChatGPT from any source text in English. 

Picture showing the ChatGPT application displayed on a smartphone screen, illustrative
VISITORS PARTICIPATE in the capital’s Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem march last month. The encouraging implication of the study is that these are factors anyone can strengthen, regardless of whether they are religious, according to the researcher.

Being religious is better for your mental health, Israeli rabbi scientist-led study reveals

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Israeli scientists make plants produce milk protein, paving way for cow-free dairy

View of the Tel Aviv University campus

Tel Aviv University plans to rename Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences


Study explains Antarctica’s mystery Blood Falls

Researchers solved the mystery thanks to measuring devices that captured the event entirely by chance, providing the first evidence of the immense physical pressure behind this eerie natural phenomen

Antartica's Blood Falls.

Scientists reconstruct the face of “Little Foot,” a 4-million-year-old human ancestor

Comparisons show the face size falls between a gorilla and an orangutan, with shape closer to orangutans and bonobos, and a closer resemblance to east african fossils in the orbital region

The face of "Little Foot".

Brain drain: US-based scientists choose Europe, harming American institutions

Months into his second term, Trump moved to block American academic and scientific institutions from accepting foreign students, affecting undergraduates, medical, and PhD candidates.

A scientist looks through a microscope

Turtles’ brains shed light on evolutionary developments dating back hundreds of millions of years

The study provides new insights into the functions of ancestral cortices but also raises fundamental questions about how and when key neural computations evolved in turtles.

Red-eared slider - pond turtle.

High Court: Israeli gov't must explain why it funds haredi schools without core studies

The order, issued in a petition filed by Hiddush, demands that the Education and Finance ministries explain why state funding is not conditioned on the teaching of core-curriculum subjects.

 HAREDI YESHIVA students

Israel, Azerbaijan sign declaration of cooperation on AI as ties deepen

The prime minister spoke at the signing of the MOU about the alliance between the two countries: “AI, as you know, is Azerbaijan-Israel. AI is also AI, artificial intelligence."

(From L-R) Head of the National Artificial Intelligence Directorate, Brig.-Gen. (res.) Erez Askal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Azerbaijan's Digital Development and Transport Minister Rashad Nabiyev, February 3, 2026.

Cell-based implant offers new hope for diabetes management, Technion study shows

The study, which is peer-reviewed and published in Science introduces a “living, cell-based implant” that works as a pancreas and is protected against immune rejection by a novel system.

Technion–Israel Institute of Technology

Early warning system for undrinkable wine glows in the dark

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have built a living biosensor made of bacteria that lights up when it detects acetic acid, a chemical compound present in spoiled wines.

PHD STUDENT Yulia Melnik-Kesler.

Israeli scientists discover skin gene that helps build body’s first line of immune defense

The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Reports, reveal a previously unknown mechanism linking skin development to immune protection and new insight into inflammatory skin diseases.

A SURVEY OF 360 patients with psoriasis showed most patients have suffered an exacerbation of their condition due to stress and anxiety.

Russian cyborg pigeon drones begin real-world testing phases, sparking concern over military misuse

While the company insists its mission is purely to serve utilities, logistics, agriculture, and emergency response, the potential to adapt the technology for military use is hard to ignore.