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January 2014

Dr. General Domitro Dorin Pronario, the first Romanian cosmonaut, founder of the "Association of Space Explorers". Photo: Avi Belizovski

Why did Ceaușescu hide the first Romanian cosmonaut from the media?

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Left: The starting cells have a 15% lipid content. Right: Transgenic cells with a content of almost 90% lipids. [Courtesy: University of Texas at Austin]

Biofuel production from yeast cells

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dementia. Illustration: shutterstock

Israeli researchers have developed a substance that reduces the increased risk of Alzheimer's and dementia among diabetics

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Right: Asaf Agmon, head of the Fisher Institute; Paolo Nespoli, an astronaut from the European Space Agency; Bina Bar-On, Director General of the Ministry of Science; Anna Fisher, Astronaut from NASA; Menachem Kidron, Director of the Israel Space Agency; Vetal Inbar from the Fisher Institute. Photo: Yoav Ari Dudkewitz.

President Peres at the space conference: We will become one of the five most important countries in space

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Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld, screenshot from a TV7 program, January 19, 2014.

Does the curtain of smoke and clouds hide the extent of global warming

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To restore the appearance of a man who lived 7,000 years ago in Spain. Figure: National Scientific Council of Spain (CSIC)

The ancient man in Spain had blue eyes and dark skin

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The formation of the universe and the theory of information. Illustration: shutterstock

How was the universe created from nothing?

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Communication satellite. Illustration: shutterstock

Exclusive: For the first time in Israel, a startup company in the field of space

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Prof. Stephen Hawking in a lecture at NASA, 2008. Photo: NASA. From Wikipedia

"Hawking's discussion of black holes drew attention to the need to unify the basic teachings in science

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A production line for satellite products at the Elbit-Alup company. Photography: the department of photography in Bezalel

The goal of the space week is to make space in particular and science in general accessible to young people

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Experiments on animals. Photo: shutterstock

University research vice presidents call for halting laws that would make animal testing impossible

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A spiral galaxy and a black hole. Illustration: shutterstock

Hawking did not claim that black holes do not exist, but that black holes do not have an event horizon

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jellyfish. Illustration: shutterstock

Flight system inspired by the jellyfish

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Chimpanzees. Photo: shutterstock. Caption: Avi Blizovsky

Evolution in action: Chimpanzees use hand gestures to communicate when hunting

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An attack of the falling disease - epilepsy. Illustration: shutterstock

A new mechanism for artificial stimulation of the brain using ultrasound

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Dead Sea factories. Photo: shutterstock

The Dead Sea - the polluter pays - for public relations instead of repairing the damage

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A segment from a panoramic image taken by the Shanghai 3 lunar lander in which the Yuto robotic vehicle is seen in two different locations during its journey on the lunar soil in the area of ​​the landing site between December 15-18, 2013. Photo: CNSA/Chinanews/Ken Kremer/Marco Di Lorenzo. This is a time-lapse panoramic shot showing China's lunar robotic vehicle Yuto traversing the lunar surface in the first week after descending on its six wheels to the lunar plains. The image was compiled from stills broadcast by the Chinese Hal agency on Chinese-language websites. On January 25, a little over a month after these photos were taken, a malfunction was discovered in Yoto. Image courtesy of the universe today website

Malfunction in the Chinese lunar rover

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Discovering water on a hook. Eurof European Space Agency

The Herschel Space Telescope discovered water vapor in an asteroid

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Students and engineers participate in the preparation for the launch of the Prospector 18 rocket Image Credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis

Small satellite launcher/Prof Haim Ashad

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The Sliot 1 space laboratory as seen from the Soyuz 11 spacecraft that brought astronauts to it. From Wikipedia

Soliot 1 - a first-generation space laboratory, full of malfunctions and even disaster during the return of the Soyuz 11 crew

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The late Shulamit Aloni expresses the need to study evolution. Screen shot from Anat Sargosti's film "The Citizen Aloni".

Shulamit Aloni paid the price of scientific truth - a country haunted by demons MD

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The galaxy M82 and the new supernova. Photo: Lemon Observatory in Arizona.

A great light in the sky

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The Soviet Union in space - Soyuz and Salyut Chapter 4: Soyuz 9

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identical twins. Photo: shutterstock

What makes some identical twins look different from each other?

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Sporty walking. Photo: shutterstock

The Muscle Song LT: Go, go in your country - about a sportive walk in Jewish history

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