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March 2014

Dr. Tartkovsky (on the right) with the late Professor Yoram Zbirin

About the late Prof. Yoram Zvirin, about engines, and everything in between

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Bacteria at hand. Photo: shutterstock

To read your bacterial aura / Peter Andrey Smith

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BMW hydrogen powered car. Photo from Wikimedia Commons

New and cheap materials for the production of hydrogen fuel

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The Luna 1 spacecraft. Image from the NASA archive

Luna spacecraft to the moon (A)

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A man and a woman of the species Homo erectus. Illustration: shutterstock

Revolution - another excerpt from the second chapter of Mario Livio's book "Genius Errors"

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From the promo for the Cosmos series, broadcast on the Fox and National Geographic networks. From YOUTUBE

Neil deGrasse Tyson, presenter of the Cosmos series: "If Sagan were alive, he would be most surprised by the fact that we still have to argue that science is important to society."

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Three processed images from the sequence taken at the Wise Observatory showing the section of the sky before the eclipse, during the eclipse, and immediately after the eclipse.

Hide and seek star

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A razor inspired by the salamander. Figure 1. Courtesy of the Technion

How the frog and the salamander helped the Technion researchers significantly improve the shaving process

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From the right: Benny Shapiro, Dr. Nancy Gebert and Prof. Avri Ben-Zev. Standing behind: Anna Shoab and Gal Haz. "The Good Hero". Photo: Weizmann Institute

The double life of the cancer gene

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An artist's rendering illustrates the model that explains Alma's observations of the star Beta Pictoris. At the outer edge of the system we feel the gravitational influence of a hypothetical giant planet that captures comets and turns them into a swarm where collisions occur all the time. Image: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/F. Reddy

Get to know the solar system where comets collide every five minutes

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Nanoscribe XNUMXD printer. PR photo

The AVBA company will unveil a 2014D nanometric printer at the "Nano-Israel XNUMX" exhibition

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Sheep grazing in the Riverina region of Australia, during the drought of 2007. From Wikipedia

Meat production with less damage to the atmosphere

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The Knesset marked Science Day with alarming data; The Ministry of Science marks a year for the current government and reveals its plans for 2014

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Statue of Liberty. shutterstock photo

Sea level rise threatens UNESCO World Heritage Sites

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Prof. Uri Sion, Technion

Nano pink-blue-white

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Prof. Ohad Birak

A genetic disease common among Jews of Moroccan origin has been deciphered

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A red star near the Solar System as imaged by the Next Generation Digital Sky Survey camera following the WISE survey. Photo: Credit: DSS/NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA: Despite a comprehensive scan of the solar system's environment, Wise did not discover Planet X

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Angry turkeys. Photo: shutterstock

From turkeys to innovative biosensors

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From the right: David Galbwasser-Klimovsky and Prof. Gershon Kuritsky. Quantum effect

sealed in the bath

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Advertising poster for the return of the Cosmos series.

The mythological TV series "Cosmos" is coming back - it will be screened from today, on all the stations specifically on Fox

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The asteroid P/2013 R3 after its disintegration. Photo: Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope recorded for the first time the disintegration of an asteroid into at least ten different pieces

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A "quantum leak" (in the mind of an artist) exposed inside a gallium-arsenide semiconductor in response to ultrafast laser radiation. [Courtesy of Baxley/JILA]

New semiconductor quasiparticles

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The Middle East is drying up. Illustration: shutterstock

The lack of water in the Middle East and North Africa may harm food security

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The winning students in the FIRST 2014 competition. Photo: Avishai Finkelstein

A joint group of students from Ironi D schools from Tel Aviv, Meshgav Regional High School and Jet High School won the FIRST competition

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Israel's 2013 beauty queen, Titi Inao at the Washington Press Club, September 25, 2013. Photo: shutterstock Albert H. Teich / Shutterstock.com

International Women's Day 2014: 57% of students in Israel are women

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