October 8, 2013

Underwater robot. From the Beyond Planet Earth exhibition at the Madatech Museum in Haifa, 2013

World Space Week events in Israel * On the occasion of this week, a part of the Tel Aviv port will be darkened in order to observe the moon by the teams of the Astronomy Association

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An explanation of the symmetry breaking after the big bang. Illustration: CERN

Here he is finally here! The "divine particle" - a popular explanation of the Higgs boson

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Prof. Francois Engler, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. From Wikipedia

Prof. Francois Engler, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is also a researcher at the Tel Aviv School of Physics * Prof. Rabinovitch's response from the Hebrew on the Nobel: Justice has been done

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Prof. Peter Higgs. From Wikipedia - Photo: Michael Atia

49 years after the prediction: Peter Higgs and Francois Engler win the Nobel Prize in Physics for the Higgs boson * Exclusive interview with Prof. Elam Gross

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A possible discovery with the ATLAS detector shows the traces of four muons (in red) created by the decay of the short-lived Higgs boson [http://cds.cern.ch/record/1459496]

Recording: The announcement of Nobel Prize winners in physics Peter Higgs and Francois Engler

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The number of faculty members in Israeli universities 1973-2013. Source: Taub Center

Taub Center: The state of higher education continues to deteriorate - the number of faculty members today is smaller than in 1973

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