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November 2012

Sheets of carbon atoms one-atom thick are rolled to form a carbon nanotube - ten thousand times smaller than the thickness of a human hair - which can be used to make transistors inside chips. [Courtesy: IBM Research]

IBM announces a breakthrough in the field of chips: carbon chips

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From the right: Dr. Dror Shapir, Dr. Nirit Dodovitz, Oren Padhzour, Hadas Yager, Dr. Barry Brunner, Michal Dagan. Faster. Photo: Weizmann Institute

Window of Opportunity

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Drainage works in Nahal Kishon. Photo: Kishon Drainage and Streams Authority

In the coming weeks, the company that will carry out the biological purification project of the bottom of the Kishon River will be determined

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Wild nature in Tanzania. Courtesy of Shlomo Carmel "Another World"

Visit Tanzania during calving season

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The magnetic field of the planet Hema. Image: NASA

The magnetic field of the planet Hema - new findings

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A silicon wafer with three-dimensional sensors on it. Photo: planoptik

Ultra-flat silicone layers

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The assistant robot ROBIL which researchers in the Israeli consortium will write control software for. Credit: DARPA.

Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev won a grant to develop software to control an operational robot that will help in disaster-stricken areas

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Dr. Dobi Weiss, the pedagogical founder of "Eat Al-Haida"

News cluster: Dr. Avital Stein was appointed CEO of the Council for Higher Education

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Dr. Taleb Mukari. Photo: Ben-Gurion University

For the first time in Israel, a young science academy was established

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The certificate that accompanied the award for excellence in digital journalism 2012.

Award for Excellence in Digital Journalism 2012: The video

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In the experiment planned by the team of scientists, which included Dr. Avi Sayeg, Dr. Goren Gordon and Eldad Asa from Prof. Ehud Ahisher's group and Dr. Amos Arieli, all from the Department of Neurobiology, the subjects were asked to sit on a chair with their eyes covered. Their two index fingers - In the right hand and left hand - thin elastic "bristles" 30 cm long were attached, to the base of which a position meter and a force meter were attached.

Weizmann Institute scientists connected "rat whisker bristles" to human fingers, and discovered how the brain learns to use a new sense

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Collision of matter and antimatter. Illustration: shutterstock

Matter and anti-matter - matter and its opposite

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Editor of the Scientist website Avi Blizovsky and Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry Prof. Ada Yonat at the Life Science Baltics conference

Tal Schneider and Avi Blizovsky - winners of an award for excellence in digital journalism on behalf of the Association of Journalists and Google

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Sea level changes in the past and possibly in the future. Map prepared by Emanuel Soding, Christian Albrecht University, using NOAA data

Why is the sea level rising faster than expected?

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An artist's rendering of the various configurations of the asteroid belt that could appear. Figure: NASA/ESA/A. Feild, STScI

A study in which Prof. Mario Livio participated: deadly asteroids to a degree necessary for the development of complex life

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A three-dimensional graph depicts the relationship between three different velocities v, u and U, where v is the velocity of a second observer measured by the first observer, u is the velocity of moving particles measured by the second observer and U is the relative velocity of the particle for The first viewer. Image: Hill and Cox

Einstein's theory of relativity also holds for speeds higher than that of light

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Brazil nuts contain an allergenic protein - an allergy factor. Transferring the gene coding for this protein to another plant makes it also allergenic. From Project Gutenberg

Soy and asthmatic mice: about the danger in genetically modified plants

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Emotive's mobile brain scanner - brain examination outside the laboratory. PR photo from the company's website

"To understand what goes on inside the addict's head"

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A computerized illustration depicting a sugar molecule (the chain structure in white, gray and red) inside a nanobowl of zirconium oxide (in the center of the image). Other nanobowls in the structure are empty. The red atoms are oxygen atoms and the blue atoms are zirconium atoms. (Courtesy: Larry Curtiss, Argonne National Laboratory and the Institute for Atom-Efficient Chemical Transformations)

Scientists have developed "nanobowls" as protection for important catalysts

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