Rakefet Tavor
Author
Rakefet Tavor is a graduate of Information Systems Engineering from the Technion, with over 15 years of experience in analyzing research data in scientific journals. She currently serves as the science correspondent for Epoch Magazine in Israel.
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Timeless paradoxes—social media’s tolerance dilemma, democracy’s ‘inevitable’ decline, the search for universal beauty—continue to shape how we think and live.
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Adults Who Don’t Age: The Secrets of ‘Superagers’
They are over 80, 90, and even 100, yet their minds are as sharp as those of people decades younger. Superagers challenge everything we assume about aging.
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The Physiological Mechanism That Supports Decision-Making Under Pressure
A series of U.S. Navy studies explores how heart–brain harmony can support peak performance under pressure.
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We Shorten Our Lives in All Kinds of Ways—But There May Be a Way to Reverse Them
Our body has a biological clock that determines how fast our cells age. How does this mechanism work? What are the factors that speed it up or slow it down?
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The Way We Perceive Time May Affect the Pace of Our Healing
Research from Harvard University reveals a crucial factor influencing the speed of our recovery from wounds and illnesses.
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World Falun Dafa Day Celebrated at Entrance to Old City of Jerusalem
Hundreds of tourists and residents in Jerusalem learned about the ancient Chinese practice of Falun Dafa and how it is severely persecuted in China.
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Plants Know Their Siblings
It is not fiction that sibling plants—plants grown from seeds of the same plant—can recognize each other.
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Golden Ratio Discovered in the Quantum World
The “golden ratio' can be found in many aspects of our life, including biology, architecture, and the arts.
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