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June 2011

ULAS J1120+0641 - the most distant quasar - its light reaches us as seen 770 million years after the Big Bang. Figure: ESO

The most distant quasar to date has been discovered

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Cyanobacteria - from Wikipedia

How is long-term coexistence possible between bacteria in the sea and the viruses that infect them?

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Prof. Manuel Trachtenberg

A group led by Prof. Gideon Gerder from the Technion won the Center of Excellence for Alternative Energies

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Prof. David Kahn and Fabrita Naik. Solar color

New under the sun

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Dr. Erica Bruce. Photo: Baylor University

A common flame retardant is harmful to marine life

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Advertisement for the 11th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica (May 1913)

About the day Wikipedia will be streamed directly into the brain

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NYPD security camera

A computerized chess player for classifying movements in security cameras

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So that there won't be another holocaust. The late Professor Yitzhak Kidron in his youth

Yitzhak Kidron and the establishment of the Center for Microelectronics

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Trisomy 21 (chromosome number 21 appears 3 times) which characterizes Down syndrome

chipping (of genes)

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Right: Prof. Yoram Gruner Niv Pankovitz. Spatial analysis

The main suspect

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Comet Hartley as imaged in 2011 by the Epoxy/Deep Impact spacecraft

The encounter with Comet Hartley

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After the division of the simple model cell, one of the daughter cells inherits only one type of lipid (red) and most of the protein fragments (blue), while the other daughter cell inherits two types of lipids (red and green). Image: See link to the source of the image at the end of the article

New insights into the mechanism of cell division

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A coal-fired power plant in China. Photo: Scientific American" title="A coal-fired power plant in China. Photo: Scientific American

Environment - burning coal flames / David Bailo

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Structures consisting of carbon nanoparticles

Carbon black nanoparticles can cause medical damage

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One meeting of skeptics in a pub (video)

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discus thrower

The Song of the Muscles Chapter XNUMX - Gymnasium in Jerusalem, isn't it?! (Part a')

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Astronaut Mike Possum performs a rehearsal in a space suit in the Quest space shoe. Photo: NASA TV

The space station crew has received supplies, and is awaiting the shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135

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From the right: Mandi Moros, Chairman of the International Council, Galia Maor, CEO of Bank Leumi, Prof. Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel, Prof. Daniel Zeifman, President of the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Samson Harel, Chairman of the Association of Friends of The Institute in Israel Is economics a science?

The fusion of spirit and exact science

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Henry Taub. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Henry Taub, honorary chairman of the Technion's board of directors, passed away

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The beautiful and geeky program broadcast on channel 10: brings together gifted people who lack social skills with girls who are in the opposite situation

Contrary to the stereotype: gifted teenagers show higher levels of social behavior characteristics

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Dr. Eli Ofer and Israel Shamai. Photo: Morg Beitan

Record participation of Israeli industry taking part in 60 European projects in Eureka this year

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Prof. Amir Amadi presents the device that will replace the walking stick of the blind

The device that turns the blind into bats or dolphins

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The cellular "steam valve" discovered by Prof. David Valech. Illustration: Weizmann Institute

The scientists of the institute discovered a group of genes that suppress increased cell division

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Prof. Aryeh Reich, Bar Ilan University

A new international venture in the field of informatics will spread Israeli research in the world

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Nahal Nadar in Carmel Park. Orrling photo - from Wikipedia

MK Meir Shetrit: "You can live without a cottage but not without biological diversity"

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