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September 2012

Vegetables in the market in Crete. From Wikipedia

A call to vegetarianism?

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Model with dyed green hair. Illustration: shutterstock

Green hairs, brain activity in dead salmon among 2012 Ignoble Prize winners

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A chart of the seasons as they appear in the Northern Hemisphere. Right: the winter solstice in December. From Wikipedia

Today is the autumnal equinox and why, although technically this is true, there is really no equinox between day and night

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This year the exact time of the autumnal equinox is September 22 at 14:49 GMT
Space Shuttle Endeavor on the back of the carrier aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California

Endeavor flew for the last time on a salute mission over California

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Prof. Michel Rebel at the Life Sciences Baltics 2012 conference. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Prof. Michel Rebel at the Life Sciences Baltics 2012 conference: "Stem cells can be used to restore the pancreatic islets of diabetic patients"

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Zachary Blount, postdoctoral fellow at Michigan State University's Bacon Center for the Study of Evolution in Action

Researchers were able to document how new creatures are created - evolution easily

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Negative record in the ice area in the Arctic Ocean in the summer of 2012. Image: NASA

A new negative record for ice cover in the Arctic Ocean

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Astronaut Joe Akaba, upon landing in Kazakhstan with his fellow members of the 32nd crew of the space station, September 17, 2012. Photo: NASA

The members of the 32nd crew of the space station landed safely

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The first computer in Israel - WEIZAC. Photo: Weizmann Institute

The Scientists' Night will be held this year under the banner of computer science on campuses all over the country

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The Science Garden at the Davidson Institute, Weizmann Institute campus

The 12th Science Festival will be held in Sukkot at the Davidson Institute on the Weizmann Institute campus

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We wave our hands for the disappearing Dead Sea. (Photo: Dor Nevo)

"Dead Sea factories prefer to invest in public relations instead of saving the sea"

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From the left: Prof. Michel Rebel from the Weizmann Institute, Prof. Vladas Bomlis - Honorary Consul of Lithuania in Israel, CEO of Enterprise Lithuania and next to him the Minister of Economy of Lithuania Rymantas Zhilios at the opening of the Life Sciences Baltics 2012 conference. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"The 21st century is the century of biotechnology"

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Cut through the retina. Except for the gray engulfing layers at the bottom, all the parts are transparent and have been painted here for demonstration purposes only. The nerve cells fill the blue volume, and the cell nuclei are pink, brown and red. The light comes from the pupil of the eye (above) and is captured in the funnels of the glial cells (green) where it is concentrated to the color-sensitive cells (membranes) marked in purple. The rest of the scattered light reaches the reed cells that are not sensitive to color (in orange). The thickness of the retina is about a quarter to half a millimeter.

Evil and dark to him

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A collision product in the Atlas experiment that may be a Higgs particle. Figure: Atlas experiment at CERN; December 2012

The existence of the Higgs particle

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In the photo: 80-fold magnification of a developing wing in a fruit fly larva showing different aspects of apoptosis activated as a result of radioactive radiation - in a normal fly (left) and a mutant fly lacking Drice (right). In the top row: the expression area of ​​the "reporter" protein colored with green fluorescent color. In the middle row: fluorescent marking of the cutting of the "reporter" protein by the caspases after activation of apoptosis. Bottom row: fluorescent labeling of dead cells. In the normal fly many cells die after exposure to radioactive radiation, but in the fly without Drice there is almost no apoptosis

the exterminator

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Barack Obama versus Mitt Romney - the candidates for the US presidency in the 2012 elections

The voice of the skeptic - the science of righteousness / Michael Shermer

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Cross section of a solar cell with transparent altacrodes

Positive energy - renewable sources / Matthew L. Wald

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US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. Credit: US Department of Energy

Almost science fiction / David Bailo

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From the right: Prof. Joachim Shapatz and Prof. Benjamin Giger. synthetic biology. Photo: Weizmann Institute

connected

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The graph shows the levels of neutrophils in three patients suffering from neutropenia. With the help of drug therapy, the patient with the "strong" neutrophils (P1) is able to overcome the infection. In contrast, the patient with the "weak" neutrophils (P4) cannot overcome even a mild bacterial infection originating from the intestines.

A mathematical model developed by Weizmann Institute of Science scientists may improve the safety of chemotherapy treatment

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Zev Zelig, CEO of Genzyme Israel and Prof. Ada Yonat, Nobel laureate, at the Life Sciences Baltics conference; September 2012, photo: Avi Blizovsky

Zev Zelig, one of the initiators of the Life Sciences Baltics conference: the Israeli model in the field of life sciences can be exported to countries with similar characteristics

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Prof. Ada Yonat at the opening plenary of the Life Sciences Baltics conference held in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania on September 12, 2012. Photo by Avi Blizovsky

The reluctance of pharmaceutical companies to develop new antibiotics for economic reasons could set us back decades when it comes to life expectancy

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Credit: Wikimedia, Southwest

Weigh the risk / Melinda Wenner Moyer

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Illustration of the process: following ultraviolet light irradiation, an electron in the titanium dioxide undergoes excitation and is transferred to the graphene layer, where it jumps to a silver cation and thereby creates a silver nanoparticle.

Sensors for detecting low concentration infections

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Illustrative photo of Ein Bionic, the Israeli company Nano Retina

Medical technology - the medicine of tomorrow

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