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January 2011

From right to left: Minister of Science, Prof. Daniel Hashkowitz, Jean-Jacques Durdin, head of the European Space Agency, Dr. Zvi Kaplan, former head of the Israeli Space Agency at the 2011 Ilan Ramon Space Conference

The first cooperation agreement was signed between the Israeli government and the European Space Agency ESA

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A team of scientists led by Prof. Steve Granick (right) developed small spheres that absorb water to create structures of super molecules. Team members from left: Qian Chen, PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering, Sung Chul Bae, researcher, Jonathan Whitmer, PhD student in Physics

A new family of self-organizing materials

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Susita car 1966 made in Israel that was used by the post office. Photo: from Wikipedia

The government today approved the national plan to reduce dependence on oil in transportation

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The Jerusalem pine in the Jerusalem mountains. Photo: The Hebrew University

Nature will not do its thing: warming will eliminate trees that spread seeds

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The first Israeli nanosatellite, Inklajn-1, in the assembly room

INSA (the Association for Tiny Satellites) completed the construction of the first Israeli nanosatellite

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Brain exercise. Integrating images within Wikimedia

Brainwashing - "brain exercise" - is it useful?

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Tiny nanometer arrays of microscopic lenses

An array of tiny lenses to create sharp images

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Asimo goes down the stairs

The Auto Dancer

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student with carotenoids. Image: Rich Richins. Photo: University of New Mexico

"Green" extraction method to produce red pigment

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Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel. Photo: Kobi Kantor for People and Computers

The Yuval Na'eman workshop for science, technology and security will host senior officials at NASA

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Bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Illustration: national review of medicine

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have developed a method that neutralizes the bacteria's ability to create resistance to antibiotics

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Prof. Sami Busiva. Photo: Danny Machlis, Ben-Gurion University

Omega 6 from algae

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Professor Graham Hutchings FRS

Innovative use of a gold catalyst

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The Koffler Accelerator Tower at the Weizmann Institute

The Weizmann Institute ranks first in Israel in receiving excellence-based research grants from Europe

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Yossi Shiloh, Tel Aviv University

Prof. Yossi Shilo from Tel Aviv University won the prestigious award of the American Association for Cancer Research

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From left: Professor Qilin Li, student Michael Liga, graduate Huma Jafry and Professor Andrew Barron

A new and simple method for exterminating viruses

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British Foreign Secretary William Hague

A new Israeli-British council will leverage research ties in the field of life sciences

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From the right: Dorja Bhaktavatsela Ra Dasari, Prof. Gershon Kuritsky and Prof. Lucio Friedman.

Warmth and order

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The natural water cycle - no longer content with it

Is there no shortage of water in Israel?

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The massive star Beetlejuice, which is on the verge of ending its life and going supernova. Photo: Hubble Space Telescope

2012 - New craze: Beetlejuice will explode and this will apparently hurt the Earth

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A light-sensitive structure made of graphene and polymers

Light is able to control the electronic properties of graphene

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The Japanese supply spacecraft HTV1 as photographed from the International Space Station prior to its arrival. September 2009

Three supply spacecraft will be launched to the space station in the coming weeks

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Snow paralyzes New Jersey, December 27, 2010. From Wikipedia

Cold winter in Europe and the USA in the warmest year in history

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The cover of the book "Living in a Strange Land"

"Living in a foreign land" - a sociological analysis

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Image a is an atomic force microscope (AFM) image of a polymer sheet whose dark spots are organic nanotubes. b is a transmission electron microscope (TEM) image of a sheet with sub-nanometer channels where the organic nanotubes are circled in red. On the right - magnification of a single nanotube. Photo: Ting Xu

Molecular polymer membranes

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