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 fundamental teachings of 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 Muscles Song LT: Go Go in Your Land - About Sporting Walking in Jewish History

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A white shark surrounds a cage where scientists are studying it. Photo: shutterstock

Great white sharks live up to 70 years

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Prof. Haim Ashad, Chairman of the Space Committee, National Research and Development Council

The era of tiny satellites / Prof. Haim Ashad

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A church with an impressive mosaic from the Byzantine period in Moshav Aloma near Kiryat Gat. Photography: Yuli Schwartz, Davida Dagan. Courtesy of the Antiquities Authority

Near Kiryat Gat, a central church was uncovered with an impressive mosaic from the Byzantine period

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Stars are running away. Graphics: Julie Turner, the top view of the galaxy is from NASA and the horizontal image is from the European Southern Observatory. Credit: Graphic design by Julie Turner, Vanderbilt University. The top view of the galaxy comes from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the side view comes from the European Southern Observatory.)

A surprising new type of ultra-fast stars escaping the galaxy

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The scientific tablet Einstein of the Fourier company. PR photo

Israeli development: a tablet that is also a scientific laboratory

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plankton. Photo: shutterstock

Who signed the groundbreaking article?

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The late Ilan Ramon on the Columbia shuttle, on flight STS-107. Photo: NASA

Kol Israel: Israel is in talks to launch a second astronaut

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Students of the Scientists and Inventors of the Future program at Tel Aviv University: from the right: Noa Korneyev. Abd Kadri, Sa'ar Katz, Dana Zeitlin, Yonatan Dankner. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The future generation of science in Israel

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A lion is immortalized on a stamp from the country of Guinea in West Africa from 1977. Photo: rook76 / Shutterstock.com

Lions are extinct in West Africa

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A prototype flow battery in researcher Aziz's lab at Harvard University's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (photo courtesy of Eliza Grinnell, SEAS Communications)

A new type of efficient battery

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The Rosetta spacecraft. Figure: European Space Agency

Rosetta woke up and called home

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Albert Einstein, Chaim Weizmann later the first president (from left) Menachem Oshiskin at a meeting in 1921. From Wikipedia

All the President's scientists

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Streptococcus. Illustration: shutterstock

A new way to medically treat the predatory bacteria

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The beta-glucosidaseenzyme molecule that is missing in Gaucher's disease. Photo: shutterstock molecule. Deficient in Gaucher's disease. Recombinant analog used as drug in Gaucher's disease. Atoms shown as spheres. Coloring per chain.

New hope for Gaucher patients

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A simulation of the Paley lander leaving the Rosetta spacecraft to land on the mission. Figure: European Space Agency

My skin, Rosetta!

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iNNOVEX 2014 logo

Dr. Steve Crocker Chairman of ICANN International Internet Association among the lecturers at the iNNOVEX2014 innovation conference

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Prof. Chi Wee Wong, winner of the 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry. Self-portrait

Wolf Prize for Chemistry for developing the ability to synthesize large biological molecules

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Prof. Nahum Sonnenberg, McGill University, Canada

Prof. Nahum Sonnenberg, a pioneer in the field of protein translational control, and the two microRNA researchers: Gary Robkon and Victor Ambrose won the Wolf Prize for Medicine

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Art combines science. Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson from Denmark won the Wolf Prize for Art for combining art and science

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Prof. Jorge Dovchovski. From the University of California at Davis website

The wheat breeders won the Wolf Prize for Agriculture

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Prof. Peter Sarnak, the photo was attached to the presentation of the Wolf Foundation with the announcement of his winning the Wolf Prize for Mathematics

The Wolf Prize for Mathematics to Prof. Peter Sarnak, lays the foundations in many fields, including the "low-lying zeros"

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Prof. Dan Shechtman at the "Pedagogy in the Age of Education" conference of the Initiative for Applied Research in Education 2610117

Prof. Dan Shechtman in an interview with Channel 1: wants to run for president

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Shlomo Gerdman. Photo courtesy of him

iNNOVEX2014: The future of the industry lies precisely in academia

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cough. Photo: shutterstock

Health sciences - whooping cough as a metaphor / Marin McKenna

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Soviet Union in space - Soyuz and Salyut. Chapter 3: Doubles and triplets in space - Soyuz 2,3; Soyuz 4,5 and Soyuz 6,7,8

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