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December 2011

A series of stamps to mark the end of the era of ferries

A new civil year - an opportunity to summarize the year 2011 in science: the end of the era of shuttles, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Higgs boson

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reindeer. From Wikipedia

Reindeer see in ultraviolet

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Afka College electric car racing team logo

Afka College President Prof. Motti Sokolov: It is definitely possible to make Israel a leader in the field of electric vehicle technologies

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Superconducting strips on graphene surfaces. Figure: Center for Nanotechnology in London

A new nanoscale electronic state in graphene

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Jewish religious customs - the four species. Free image, Wikimedia Foundation

Mild to severe

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The moon Prometheus as photographed by the Cassini spacecraft, 1/2/2010

Prometheus is a moon of Saturn

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Smoking utensils are served at an Aztec feast. From the Florentine codex, late 16th century

Brainwashing - what is between a cigarette, appetite and body weight? / Yitzhak Farnes

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Symptoms of malaria

An application presents a new technology for the production of a drug for malaria in the tobacco plant

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Prof. Robert Kirchner at the Israel Physics Society conference held at the Technion, 25/12/2011

"When politicians talk about science, they talk about a strong economy, national resilience and advanced medicine"

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Dr. Assaf Hellman, Hebrew University

A new method for deciphering risk factors for the disease was successfully applied in a study conducted by Hebrew University researchers

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Carbon nanotubes in dedicated imaging. Photo: Purdue University

A label-free imaging tool for monitoring nanotubes

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Midad Farinta, CEO of the Specialist company

Monitoring the sailing routes from space and a camera that takes pictures from satellites in two lighting conditions at the same time

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Eilat Mayor Meir Yitzhak Halevi (left) and Eilat Regional Council President Udi Gat in the Samar Sands. Unreservedly support the fight for the future of the sick. Photo: from the website of the Society for the Protection of Nature

on compromises and natural environment

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A stem cell takes the place of damaged heart muscle cells. Illustration: University College London

Rambam and Technion researchers created beating heart cells in the laboratory

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On the left: a natural inhibitor (in red) controls the enzyme (gray) by blocking the zinc pool (in yellow) in the cleft where the active site of the enzyme is located. Right: A novel antibody (in purple) works as efficiently as the natural inhibitor. Illustration: Weizmann Institute

An innovative approach to the treatment of autoimmune diseases prevents disease symptoms in mice

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Menachem Begin speaking after his exit from the underground, on August 14, 1948, in Tel Aviv. Haim Landau sits next to him. In front of it is the inscription "Homeland and Freedom" and the Etzel symbol. From Wikipedia

Not just hypnosis: how to influence others?

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A portable computer classroom that is powered by solar energy, and reaches remote areas in Africa. Photo: Intel

Classrooms powered by solar energy

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Prof. Shimon Ullman, laureate of the Israel Prize in Mathematics and Computer Science approaches human ability in several fields. Photo: PR

Prof. Shimon Ullman, Prof. Rashef Tana, Prof. Avishai Margalit and Prof. Moti Segev join the Academy of Sciences

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Prof. David Gross, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. From Wikipedia

The divine particle arrives at the Hebrew University

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Jupiter and the moon Ganymede emerging behind him. Photo: NASA/ESA/E. Karkoschka (U. Arizona)

Is Jupiter's core becoming liquid?

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Persian archers in a decorative band in the Dervish Palace in Shushan, glass-glazed brick, 510 BC

The Song of the Muscles Chapter XNUMX: Bows to you Israel

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Ko Or association logo, operates an educational project for children hospitalized for long periods in Israel's hospitals

The World ORT organization donates innovative robotics equipment to hospitalized children

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CEO of Solarage Guy Sela. Photo: Shmuel Oster

Guy Sela, CEO of Solarage: There will never be a choice, in order to continue growing we must switch to widespread use of solar energy

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Nanometric motor. Illustration: IBM

The smallest steam engine in the world

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The Soyuz launcher launched on December 23, and fell to the ground near Novosibirsk a few minutes later. Photo: Roscosmos

A Soyuz launcher crashed in Siberia after a launch malfunction on Friday

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