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May 2010

Prof. Oded Abramski, chairman of the MOLMOF

The National Council for Research and Development in a serious report: the government is neglecting R&D and letting it deteriorate

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Busoya - a bus powered by biodiesel produced from soy

Understanding the combustion mechanism of biofuel

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Prof. Shmuel Peleg

Kay Award to a researcher from the Hebrew University for a development that enables the presentation of a summary from security footage

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Photograph of the prototype of the device (credit: Public Relations)

The hitherto untapped terahertz frequencies will enable the remote detection of explosives and camouflaged munitions

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Dr. Ze'ev Gurion, president of New Global Ventures, (a company belonging to the municipality of Ekron) who will arrive as part of the American delegation to locate promising Israeli companies.

Towards the Biomed conference: The Ohio principle wants Israeli biomed companies

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Artist's impression of a robotic lunar base. JAXA figure

Japan wants to build a robotic base on the moon by 2020

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"By binding the 'combat head' molecule to the peptoid, we have shown that we can increase the protein's killing potential a thousandfold without requiring an expensive and lengthy optimization process," says Prof. Tom Kodadec

New substances to unload proteins

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Prof. Aharon Chachanover

The University of Haifa will award an honorary doctorate to Prof. Aharon Chakhanover

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Diagram of the desalination plant

Makhteshim established in Ramat Hovav a desalination plant for industrial wastewater, which it claims is one of the strongest in the world

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Galaxies collide. NASA illustration

Swift confirmed: super active black holes are those created by merging galaxies

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The roll kit

Sheba Hospital will present at Biomed a kit to improve brain function in those suffering from decreased sensation in the hands

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Who said there are no aliens? Get Dumbo Octopus!

Straight from Paris and Hong Kong and at the same time as Natural History in London "Deep"

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Psoriasis of the nail

The Technion researchers discovered a subset of cells that suppress diseases, which is within a group of cells that cause diseases

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Researchers at the University of Gothenburg were able, using an advanced X-ray flash, to photograph the movement of atoms during photosynthesis.

Photographing the movement of atoms during photosynthesis

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eyes for the blind

The "Young Engineer" competition

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Dr. Mark Gasson, University of Reading in the UK. He infected the RFID chip in his body with a computer virus. From his home page on the university website

A scientist from the University of Reading: the first in the world to be infected with a computer virus

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Drosera_capillaris - Drosera_capillaris

Competition for food from an unexpected direction

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Commander of the Northern District in the Home Front Command Col. Anwar Saab General McKinley, Mayor of Haifa Yona Yahav and Deputy Minister of Defense Matan Vilnai at the Turning Point 4 exercise, on May 26, 2010. Photo: Haifa Municipality

Elbit's control and crisis management systems were presented to the head of the US National Guard, General Craig McKinley, during his visit to Haifa

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Minister of Agriculture Benjamin Ben Eliezer on the right, and the chief scientist at the ministry, Dr. Eli Ofer. Photo: Assaf Shiloh - Israel Sun

The chief scientist's research committee approved projects in the field of life sciences amounting to NIS 120 million 

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The last landing of Atlantis, May 26, 2010. Photo: NASA

The space shuttle Atlantis landed safely in Florida for the last time

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The black smudge in the greenish cloud near the top of the image is a hole cut through NGC 1999 by jets and gas blown from young stars in this region of space. European Space Agency photo ESA/HOPS Consortium

Radiation emissions from young stars create a hole in space

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Zerez Groves from the second generation.

New details about the activity of an important catalyst

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You can keep the trees and still see the forest

How do you protect nature and the safety of women in eastern Congo?

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Technion symbol

Hundreds of students in grades XNUMX-XNUMX will participate in the Robotics Olympiad at the Technion

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Artist's impression of the planet WASP-12b being devoured by its parent star. Image: NASA, European Space Agency and J. Bacon of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).

Hubble watched the sun "eating" the planet surrounding it

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