'If you send one or two students to start, you are changing their lives,' says president of South Carolina State University, who joined recent trip of historically Black colleges

Gene editing technology developed by Volcani Center scientists, who say it has potential to stop 'devastating' destruction of 7 billion unwanted male chicks globally each year

Environmental Protection Ministry confirms that waste, recently removed, was stored correctly and posed no risk

Wildlife experts hope population numbers can recover in woodlands like the Forest of the Martyrs west of Jerusalem

Researchers find resin on altar at Tel Arad is marijuana mixed with animal dung, used 2,700 years ago 'as deliberate psychoactive' - first evidence of ritual cannabis use in region

Predatory flies from Mexico are being released to devour an insect that is decimating the Sabra cactus across northern Israel