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September 2013

Nanoscale chips with a length of only 3 mm, consisting of compressed silica glass, are used to accelerate electrons to a speed ten times higher than that obtained today in normal accelerators. (Brad Plummer/SLAC)

Chip-sized particle accelerators

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DNA nanotechnology. Illustration: shutterstock

Will the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 win again this year?

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The terrible chimpanzee beats humans in a memory game against a computer. Photo: Tokyo Institute of Technology

The chimpanzee is allowed from the human

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Professor Alon Wolf presents Mr. Li Ka-shing and the president of the Technion with the snake robot. Photo: Israel Sun, Technion spokespeople

The Technion will establish a technology institute in China thanks to an unprecedented $130 million donation from the Li Ka-shing Foundation

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Eddy currents in the South Atlantic Ocean capable of swirling for months and heating the ocean behind them. Photo: University of Miami and the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich

Giant eddies in the South Atlantic Ocean are mathematical equivalents of black holes

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Prof. Haim Sider, Hebrew University

Will we finally have a Nobel Prize for medicine? Prof. Haim Sider and Prof. Aharon Razin from the Hebrew University are mentioned as candidates

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The Milky Way over a desert landscape in Spain. Photo: shutterstock

The Dragon Awakens - a huge explosion 2 million years ago of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way

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Artist's impression of an extremely massive black hole with millions-billions of solar masses. These are compressed objects buried in the centers of galaxies. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Video - How black holes are formed

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A model of the Hubble Space Telescope on the cargo deck of a space shuttle, as displayed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo: shutterstock

The scientist who expanded the universe

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The last penguins. Illustration: shutterstock

The forecast for the future is 200 warm years * Special project: all the highlighted points in the IPCC chapter intended for political decision makers

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Image: This artist's rendering shows the Spitzer Space Telescope surrounded by examples of the planets it has examined. Photo: NASA / JPL - Caltech

The Spitzer Space Telescope has been converted - to search for planets

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murder scene Illustration: shutterstock

"Bacterial clock" may help determine the time of death

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Part I of the Sixth Report of the International Panel on Climate Change, September 2013

The report of the UN Climate Panel, the damage already caused by global warming will accompany us for hundreds of years; According to the report, the probability that the person caused it is 95%

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Deep Imcapt. Photo: NASA/JPL

Lost contact with the Deep Impact spacecraft

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the whisperer of the dead

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The command cabin of one of the Apollo spacecraft on display at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo: shutterstock

Introduction to the Apollo Program - Part II

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dissemination of ideas. Illustration: shutterstock

Popular Science decided to stop allowing comments to articles to be published "because of bad science"

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The controversial diatom. Photo: Wainwright and his colleagues. From the article.

Living creatures from space? false alert

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A group photo of all members of the 37th crew of the space station upon the arrival of the three astronauts on September 26. Photo: NASA

The 37th crew of the International Space Station is launched (video)

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Secular spirituality. Illustration: shutterstock

Opinion - why do we need secular spirituality?

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The ReWalk system developed by Argo allows amputees to walk on their own;

A large Japanese corporation specializing in robotics has invested in Argo - developing a system that allows disabled people to walk

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A planet outside the solar system. Illustration: shutterstock

Closer to home / John Mattson

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Attached image of the surface of the moon "Europa". The large cracks that cross the icy surface lengthwise and widthwise on Jupiter's moon Europa are evidence of the stresses this moon has experienced. This is according to an analysis of the attachment image that was compiled from images taken by the Galileo spacecraft, which passed by this moon six times between 1996-1999. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

The moon "Europe", which is under pressure from all sides, may be out of balance

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Increased consumption of caffeine and sugar. Illustration: shutterstock

Caffeine consumption slows brain development

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T cell in the bloodstream. Illustration: shutterstock

Getting closer to a universal flu vaccine

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