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September 2010

Peter Martinez - Chairman of the South African Space Council

A private company from South Africa will offer dispatch services

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The passenger cabin, the space plane of the company EDAS - ASTRIUM which is under development

Signs of increased privatization of the space sector and cooperation with industry

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Imaging of a launcher preparing for a Soyuz rocket at the Vostoncheny Space Center in eastern Russia

The construction of the Russian space center Vostochny is accelerated

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The Sun's plasma conveyor belt. Image: Science@NASA.

Space weather and solar activity were the focus of discussion at the Astronautics Conference in Prague

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From the movie Encounters of the Third Kind - the moment of the encounter with the aliens PR photo

The UN denies that it appointed an ambassador for extraterrestrial affairs

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Protein crystals, some of which were grown on the American space shuttle and some on the Russian space station.

How do you grow your crystals?

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The late Prof. Israel Dostrovsky

Prof. Israel Dostrovsky, one of the founders of the Weizmann Institute of Science and the institute's fifth president, died at the age of 92

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Saturn's moons Dion (above) and see a unique Cassini image, June 27, 2010

Did the moons merge?

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The basal ganglia and related brain structures

deep inside the brain

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Mazlan Othman, UN Ambassador for Alien Affairs. Photo: from Wikipedia

The UN appointed an ambassador for extraterrestrial affairs, the Vatican wants to baptize them

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Logo of the IAC conference in Prague 2010

The heads of the world's space agencies call for cooperation in space

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Artist's impression of lightning storms on Venus. Figure: European Space Agency

The lightning storms on Venus are similar to those on Earth

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Take a "movie" of electrons

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Human cells - Image: University of California, San Diego

Cut a cake with a bulldozer

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NIST scientists compared a pair of the finest atomic clocks available to prove that indeed, as relativity predicts, going up a flight of stairs accelerates your aging. Figure courtesy of NIST

A pair of aluminum atomic clocks verify Einstein's twin paradox and time dilation

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Homer Simpson's brain lobes

A brain scan determines the human ability to ``wonder about your essence''

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From the right (standing): Maria Marianovitch, Dr. Nathalie Yevgi-Ohana. (Sitting): Dr. Yehudit Salzman-Amir, Prof. Eitan Gross and Liat Shekhnai.

Another component in the process of cell suicide has been identified

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The 24th crewed landing of the space station. From left: Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, Alexander Skborstov and Mikhail Kornienko. Photo: NASA

NASA overcame the problem and the 24th crew landed safely

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, from Wikipedia

The great conspirator

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Nicolaus Copernicus. From Wikipedia

Renaissance men - part two of the first chapter in the book "History of Science" by John Gribbin

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The properties of the phosphorus atom

A new method to discharge phosphorus by ultraviolet radiation

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Tracy Caldwell Dyson returns to work on the International Space Station, September 24, 2010 after the departure of the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft was delayed tonight due to a malfunction

A malfunction in the Soyuz spacecraft that is supposed to return three astronauts to Earth

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The universe according to Ptolemy - Earth in the center

Renaissance men - excerpt from the first chapter of the book "History of Science" by John Gribbin

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Prof. Dan Bloomberg. Photo: Danny Machlis, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Prof. Dan Blumberg has been appointed Deputy Vice President and Dean of Research and Development at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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The excavation site

The earliest evidence of "death feasts" held 12 thousand years ago was found

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