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December 2012

Planet X that could apparently hit us in 2012. Illustration: universe today

The end of the world did not come as the Mayans allegedly predicted. Will scientists be believed now?

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The logo of the Gate of Heaven sect who committed suicide in 1997 because of the belief that the comet Hale Bop heralds the end of the world

The end of the world - the predictions that did not come true

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Remains of buildings from the Mayan culture. Photo: NASA

Why hasn't the end of the world come?

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2.7 billion year old metal ore discovered in Canada. Makes it possible to estimate the composition of the atmosphere at that time. Photo: McGill University

New clues about the origin of life on Earth

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The Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on December 19, 2012 carrying the 34th crew members to the International Space Station. Photo: NASA/Carla Ciopi.

The 34th crew of the space station launched today from Baikonur in minus 34 degrees

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Simulation of the Haifa Life Sciences Park. Credit: Haifa Economic Society

Cluster: The Galilee unites scientific forces; Haifa will establish a biotechnological incubator

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Figure 1: Typical structure of a nerve cell as uploaded to Wikipedia by Quasar Jarosz.

Brainwashing - a new role for the myelin sheaths? / Yitzhak Farnes

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An illustration of computing the five senses. Illustration: IBM

IBM's forecast for the next five years: the five senses - in the computerized version

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Picture No. 1 Functional division of the brain. The colors indicate the different lobes of the brain. Yellow: lateral lobe; Red: parietal lobe; Blue: frontal lobe; Purple: prefrontal lobe; Orange: occipital lobe. Shaded areas indicate functional activity typical of that area.

The resting brain revolution

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Prof. Yael Iden with a group of young researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev who are engaged in the development of robots for agricultural needs. Photo: Danny Machlis, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

A huge robotics grant for researchers at Ben-Gurion University

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Yale University. From the university website

Brainwashing - escape or brain smuggling? / Yitzhak Farnes

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Albert Einstein. Photo courtesy of the National Academy of Sciences

Quantum philosophy C: Is it possible to communicate at infinite speed through the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (APR) experiment?

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Military parade in Jerusalem, Independence Day 1968. From Wikipedia

A country haunted by demons XNUMX: The wise and educated want to run away from here and the stupid don't understand why

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Smoke billows over the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. Photo: US National Park Service. From Wikipedia

The voice of the skeptic - contradictory conspiracies

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Image 1: E.coli bacteria at 10,000x magnification. Image source: Agricultural Research Service, via Wikipedia.

So what do you do there at the university? Chapter 12: "I found the solution in a jar", about the study of populations of microorganisms

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Illustration of the GRAIL mission that will attack the moon in 2012. Image: NASA

A pair of GRAIL spacecraft that have been orbiting the moon for the past year will crash into its surface tomorrow night

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An IBM chip that applied nano-photonics on top of silicon. Photo PR - IBM

Silicon-based nanophotonics: in IBM's research laboratories, optical communication components are integrated into ordinary computer chips

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The vortex of the black hole. Image: NASA

Towards the end of the world: ten reasons why the end of the world will come someday, or not but not in the near term

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Nostalgic camera. From Wikipedia

Heartwarming memories

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Shinjuku Ward, which is one of 23 wards in Tokyo. Greater Tokyo contains 35 million people and functions as a megacity. The number of megacities in the world will increase by 2030, and sixty percent of the human population will live in cities. From Wikipedia

The super trends that will change the world

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Yigal Janko. Intel PR photo

Intel presents: multi-sensory computing

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Cheeses at the market in Basel, Switzerland. From Wikipedia

7,500 year old cheese

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An artificially colored image of one of the meteors in the Geminid shower in 2011. Photo: NASA

Tonight - the peak of the Geminid shower

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Gate of Titus in Rome. Not all treasures were looted. There were also some that were put away

The movement of the temple lamp

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Right: Prof. Alexander Zamolodchikov, Prof. Adam Schwimmer and Dr. Zohar Komargodsky. Quantum fields. Photo: Weizmann Institute

Dr. Zohar Komargodsky from the Weizmann Institute of Science won the "New Horizons" award

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