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July 2014

Blood Test. Illustration: shutterstock

A simple and universal blood test for cancer diagnosis

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Prof. Ada Yonat at the opening plenary of the Life Sciences Baltics conference held in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania on September 12, 2012. Photo by Avi Blizovsky

A large Israeli delegation will participate in the Life Sciences Baltics 2014 conference in Lithuania in September

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Artist's rendering of the ATV-5 spacecraft approaching automatic docking with the space station. Figure: European Space Agency ESA

The ATV-5 mission, the cargo spacecraft to the space station named after the Big Bang theorist Georges Lametta, has launched

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A red fox digs in the snow. Photo: shutterstock

Detection of underground activity by the red fox

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Artist's illustration of Venus Expressors performing the air-braking maneuver in Venus' atmosphere in 2014. Figure: ESA-C. Carreau

The Venus Express spacecraft survived a passage through the atmosphere

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The gecko experiment on the Photon M4 satellite during preparations for launch. From the website of the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Russia, IMBP

Russia has lost control of an experimental satellite with geckos on it

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The interactions of the hydrogen bonds cause the atoms in each of the molecules of the dimer to vibrate at a common rate. [Courtesy of L. De Marco/UChicago]

directly observe hydrogen bonds

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Prof. Alex Fish, head of the nanoelectronics track at the Faculty of Engineering in Bar Ilan

A chip lab currently being built at Bar-Ilan University will help improve the design of "systems on a chip" for Israeli chip companies

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Comet Jacques and the Agalon Group Nebula IC 405, also known as the Burning Star Nebula, aligned and formed a temporary question mark in the sky on the morning of July 26. Photo: Rolando Lagostri

Comet Jacques created a question mark in the sky

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Spinach. Photo: shutterstock

Spinach as a source of alternative energy?

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black hole. Credit: Courtesy of Jay Schnittman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Jay Krulik, Johns Hopkins University, and S. Noble, Rochester Institute of Technology.

Black holes in renewed controversy / Michael Moyer

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Ballet dancer. Illustration: shutterstock

The muscles song MH - dance lesson

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DNA nanotechnology

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Chinese flag on another planet. Illustration: shutterstock

The Chinese are flying to Mars - the destination - to land an all-terrain vehicle in 2020

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A miner filters gold in a mine in Thailand. Photo: Giambra / Shutterstock.com

Is the war included in the price? / Larry Greenmeyer

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E. coli bacteria in the intestines. Illustration: shutterstock

Quick Response / Rachel Flatman

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farm animals. Illustration: shutterstock

Research: it is 10 times better to switch to consuming chicken meat and eggs instead of beef

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Heat measurements in June 2014 compared to the average for the corresponding month during the 20th century. Figure: NOAA

A new record in global heat measurements was recorded in June, breaking the record of May 2014

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The number of planet candidates discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope Credit: NASA/SETI/J Rowe

Kepler's New Life / Clara Moskovitch

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A gecko climbs a bamboo branch in New Caledonia. Illustration: shutterstock

Glue inspired by the gecko - innovations

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Computer simulation of multiple universes. Screenshot from a video by the Premier Institute in Canada

Is the universe a bubble? – Scientists have proposed a way to test this

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Morpho butterfly. Illustration: shutterstock

From the natural mechanism of the butterfly's wing - to fight fakes

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The aggregation states of the substance. Illustration: shutterstock

Ideas that will change our world - to dream in material / Garbrand Seder and Kristin Persson

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A robotic helicopter. Photo: shutterstock

To program moral robots

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A fisherman holding an Atlantic cod fish (Gadus). Photo: shutterstock

To learn from the polar fish how to preserve blood and tissues for a long time

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