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November 2013

Centaur, the birdic creature of man and horse in Greek mythology. Illustration: shutterstock

Why is the claim of a former geneticist from Georgia that man is a cross between a chimpanzee and a pig impossible?

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Tigrinya from northeastern Brazil. Photo: Eduardo Isirac from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil

A hidden new species of wild cat has been identified in Brazil

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A robot's head, with all the sensors. Photo: shutterstock

Robot ears / Gregory Moon

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The remains of Comet Ison, as photographed by the Soho spacecraft of NASA and the European Space Agency the day after perihelion.

Astronomers: There is still hope that some fragments from the nucleus of Comet Ison survived the passage

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Comet Ison approaches the Sun, November 28, 2013. Photo: NASA/European Space Agency

Comet Ison disintegrated as it approached the Sun * Experts: It disintegrated from the inside in the hours preceding its passage by the Sun

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The Scaleb laboratory as photographed by the Scaleb 3 team. From Wikipedia

Skylab 3 - the second manned spacecraft that took off to the first American space station. Chapter 5 in the series about Skylab

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Minister of Science, Technology and Space Jacob Perry and British Foreign Minister William Hague sign a scientific cooperation agreement between the two countries. May 23, 2013

Science Minister Perry concluded with his British counterpart: increasing the scientific cooperation budget and fighting boycotts against Israel within the universities

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Drawing thatsmymop / Shutterstock.com

In his death he bequeathed us the moon

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The menorah and other details looted from the Temple in Jerusalem, as depicted in the Titus Gate in Rome. Photo: shutterstock

Reincarnation of the Temple Menorah until today's Chanukah

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Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Yuval Na'eman workshop for science, technology and security, June 8, 2011

The compromise in the Horizon 2020 issue: institutions in the territories will not receive European funds, but people living in the territories and working in Israeli universities will be able to participate

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Haredim people in Pashville. From Wikipedia

A country haunted by demons MB: "In recent decades there has been a steep increase in the proportion of ultra-orthedim who only completed elementary school or less"

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Scale model of Yuto Credit: China News Service

Rabbit on the moon

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Silent prayer - one of the underwater sculptures installed in the coral reef in Cancun. Photo: shutterstock

The art of diversion / Eric Vance

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Poster of the European R&D program Horizon 2020

The president of the Academy of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Justice: signed the agreement with the European Union; time is running out

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A typical Early Bronze Age jug. He was discovered buried under the floor of a building. Photo: Dr. Ron Barry, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority

The remains of a 10,000-year-old city were discovered in rescue excavations during the widening of a road in the lowlands

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nuclear waste. Illustration: shutterstock

Following the agreement with Iran - everything about nuclear and uranium

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Oil sands mining in northern Alberta. Photo: shutterstock

Greenhouse Asphalt / David Bailo

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Three SWARM spacecraft separate from the third stage of the rocket that carried them. Figure: European Space Agency.

Sugar has launched a SWARN swarm that includes three European satellites that will study the Earth's magnetic field and why it is weakening

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The cover of the book "A city and a mosque at its heart"

Renewal of prayer at the mosque in Be'er Sheva is good for the Jews?/Yitzhak Reiter and Lior Lehers

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A particle moving along the energy band. Blue and red color mark particles with spin up and spin down. During the experiment, the particles move from the center to the edges of the energy band and acquire the geometric phase of Zak. Illustration: Technion barges

After 25 years: German and American researchers managed to measure geometric phase in solids

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enzymes. Illustration: shutterstock

A reduced catalyst does the work of a collection of enzymes

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An artist's image of Mars, with asteroids passing by. Photo: NASA

Asteroids can shake and shed the ground due to the gravity of Mars

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Comet Ison and the planet "Hama" in the early morning just before sunrise in the sky of the Canary Islands, Spain.

Comet Ison is already visible in the morning, will we see it in the evening from Thursday?

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Internet on mobile phones and tablets. Photo: shutterstock

The frontier of the Internet

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A 3,700-year-old wine cellar in Tel Kabri. Photo: Eric Klein.

Archaeologists discovered the oldest and largest wine cellar in Kibbutz Kabri: 3,700 years old

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