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February 2012

Tifat Halab station in Petah Tikva between the years 1930-1940. Photo by Nissan Ben Noam, Petah Tikva History Archive by Oded Yarkoni. CC license

The anti-vaccination column in YNET - danger of death for the children of parents who will listen to the recommendations

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The winning robot in the Robner competition between technological schools in Israel, for 2012, Robot Doctor from Meshgav School

Three teams from the school in Meshgav won the "Roboner" competition for 2012

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Artist's rendering of a near-Earth asteroid. Illustration: ESA - P.Carril

A large asteroid may hit the Earth in 2040, monitoring for at least a year is required to determine exactly the chances

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Prof. Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute.

Good times, bad times

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Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Yuval Na'eman workshop for science, technology and security, June 8, 2011

The data of the National Council for Research and Development in the Ministry of Science and the CBS show: Israel is one of the largest exporters of knowledge and technology in the world

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Zooplankton (a tiny marine animal) that ate luminescent bacteria (Credit: Victor Kuna).

Light for fish: researchers from the Hebrew University found the reason for the appearance of bacteria in the sea

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The cover of Neuron magazine from February 2012, with an article by researchers from the Weizmann Institute on the body's function in stressful situations

Editing under pressure

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Prof. Daniel Hershkovitz, Minister of Science and Technology

The Ministry of Science and Technology signed an agreement for scientific cooperation between Israel and the Czech Republic

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A US Navy soldier donates blood. From Wikipedia

Two new blood types have been identified

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Prof. Yoel Sussman and Prof. Israel Silman. excessive speed. Photo: Weizmann Institute

The Instruct Center at the Weizmann Institute was selected as one of seven European core centers in structural biology

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shock and awe. Nikola Tesla in his Niagara Falls laboratory along with his coils, which could discharge millions of volts and send electricity through the air.

Can electricity in the air kill people?

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A happy hunter carries the head of a Kodiak bear. Photo: US Forest and Wildlife Service. From Wikipedia

The super carnivore monkey

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Prof. Ehud Shapira. Photo: Weizmann Institute

Weizmann Institute scientists discovered new details about the origin of eggs in women

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Astronaut Mike Possum, commander of the 29th crew of the space station who has meanwhile returned to Earth, examines himself using the VIVID Q device developed at General Electric Laboratories in Israel

From Haifa to the International Space Station

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The neutron detector of the Opera experiment in Gran Sassi in Italy. Photo: from Wikipedia

The faster-than-light neutrino experiment at 60 nanoseconds has two possible failures

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In Bushka from bronze compounds. Illustration: Munich University of Technology

Russian bronze doll

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Dr. Mark Lugasi, Ben Gurion University

About 24% of the firefighters in the Israeli fire services suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and 67% of them suffer from symptoms of the disorder

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Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. From Wikipedia

Heinrich Hertz - the man who proved that electricity can be turned into electromagnetic waves and led to the development of the telegraph and the radio

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The planet GJ 1214b. Image: Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new type of planet outside the solar system: watery worlds

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fruit. Instead of steaks, stem cells will be taken from them.

Coming soon: the first synthetic hamburger

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Dr. Amir Amadi assembles the device for sensory transduction. Photo: The Hebrew University

Good shows ears: researchers from the Hebrew University succeeded in allowing the blind to "see" through sounds

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Teenagers play computer games and kill aliens at a conference at Haifa University, 7/2/2012. Photo: Haifa University

Writing a blog helps teenagers deal with emotional-social distress

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Soil crusts in the Gorel Hills area. Photography: Shay Sela. Soil crusts in the Gorel Hills area. Photo: Shay Sela, Ben-Gurion University. Photography: Shay Sela.

A Tale of a Double Agent: New Research Sheds Light on the Function of a Physical Soil Crust as a Moisture Conserving Agent

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European rocky. From Wikipedia

Champion

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John Glenn explaining the structure of the Mercury capsule to his wife Anne during one of her visits to Langley in 1959. Photo: NASA

Fifty years since the first circumnavigation of the Earth by an American citizen by John Glenn

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