Yonatan Winetraub was thinking about chickpeas, as one does, when he came up with a cool idea. Lots of people get ideas, but when you’re a Stanford biophysics Ph.D. candidate who has already sent a lander to the moon, your ideas get a little more traction. So when the 34-year-old Israeli started talking about hummus…
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Q&A: This Stanford doc hunts down Covid-19 variants in California
Dr. Benjamin Pinsky is a clinician and professor of pathology and infectious diseases at Stanford, and the editor-in-chief of the international Journal of…
Health
Israeli researcher's work may be key to reversing aging’s cognitive decline
Two Israeli researchers, one at UC Berkeley and the other at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University, have discovered a mechanism that may be responsible for some…
Seniors
Personal playlists help spark memories at Moldaw
Music touches people, says Gena Brigham, lifestyles director at Moldaw Residences in Palo Alto. “It motivates. It inspires,” she says. “It moves people.…
Editorial
Thrill of genetic genealogical discoveries tempered by ethical concerns
In these times of alarming disregard for scientific data (we’re talking to you, climate change deniers), let’s hear it for science, specifically the…
Bay Area
She wanted to discover her Jewish roots. She ended up finding her biological father.
Part two of our three-part PAST LIVES series on Jewish genealogical research. Part three will be available tomorrow. Kimberley Schroder was 15 years old…
Jew in the Pew
Tashlich in spaaaaaaaacce!
They call it Tashlich in Space. The website puts it succinctly: “Reflect. Renew. Blastoff.” That’s right, this year you can (belatedly) send your sins up…
Science
Jewish and Arab astronauts head to space together
The first Arab to visit the International Space Station launched there on Wednesday with the American daughter of an Israeli father. Hazzaa al-Mansoori,…
Science
Israeli brain researcher Itamar Kahn is waiting for his wow moment
The brain, with its 100 billion neurons, is the most complicated thing in the universe. Well, according to the brain, anyway. This complexity,…