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June 2012

A poster prepared in Brazil for the Rio Plus 20 Conference - Earth Summit 2012

40th birthday for the greens

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Introduction - predicting the next hundred years, from the book "The Physics of the Future" by Michio Kaku

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Cherry tomatoes and green pepper - their relative. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The genome sequences of the cultivated tomato and the wild tomato were deciphered

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Winners of the Dan David Prize in the Future Dimension, 2012. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

David Botstein, one of the three genome researchers who won the Dan David Award in the future dimension: we are in the development of the era of genomics and personalized medicine

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These two images show the same piece of sky in the Boötes group, known as the "rapid accretion belt. The area covers one degree by 0.12 degrees. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC

Spitzer captured the oldest light in the universe

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Intricate geometric shapes in a corn field. From Wikipedia

Crop circles - hoax, environmental art or intelligent messages?

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Cows grazing in the meadow. From Wikimedia

The inner compass / Davida Castelvecki

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octopus. Photo: Tzvika Livnat

New research reveals some of the secrets of octopus camouflage

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Wide-lipped rhinoceros. Photographed in 2003 in South Africa. From Wikipedia

Economy kills

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A Russian ballistic missile captured by cameras in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, on June 7, 2012, at 21:04 (Israel time). From YouTube

A Russian missile caused a flood of UFO reports

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Writer Ray Bradbury, from Wikishare

Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who died yesterday, wanted to be the first person to be buried on Mars

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Artist's impression of the Mars One lander on Mars, a version of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.

A private company promises to land humans on Mars in 2023, in one direction

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The Weizmann Institute's solar facility for producing fuel from carbon dioxide. PR photo - Weizmann Institute

Two projects for turning carbon dioxide into fuel

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Ray Bradbury in a photo from 1975. From Wikipedia

Ray Bradbury who died last night was right: you don't have to burn books you can just make people not read them

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Nachshon Yam Green. From Wikipedia. Photography: NEIL

Bio-engineering - the Nachshon Haim apprentice / interview by Gareth Cook

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Minke whale (endangered) hunted in Iceland. Source - Greenpeace

Mom, buy me a whale

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The transit of Venus (at the bottom of the sun) as photographed using a 12 inch telescope, a direct photograph into the eyepiece of the telescope and the sun using a filter. The photo was taken from the lobby of the Asher Space Research Institute at the Technion. Photography: Lial Asraf

Observation of the transit of Venus at the Faculty of Space Engineering at the Technion - deluxe astronomical observation

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Venus approaches the Sun before transit on June 6, 2012. Photo: NASA's SOHO spacecraft

Venus approaches the Sun for the transit in the morning

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The glass is half full, from Wikipedia.

The voice of the skeptic - here goes the excessive optimism! / Michael Shermer

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Sugar cubes - from Wikipedia

Science turned out sweet

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Utzi, the ice man whose body was preserved for 5,000 years. From Wikishare

A bacterium from 5,000 years ago

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Iron Dome system. Photo: IAI

The robotics that protect us are ingots

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Prof. Zaki Barak. Photo: Technion

Food, come on food - personalized

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Genesis_expo_dioramagrave Genesis_expo_dioramagrave uses GENI on Wikishare, licensed under CC

Poll: Almost half of Americans are creationists who interpret Genesis literally

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Prof. Dan Shechtman. Photo: Technion

Prof. Dan Shechtman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will receive an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University

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