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August 2014

Normal cells (marked in red) are able to protect cancer cells (in green) from chemotherapy

The resistance of certain cancerous tumors to chemotherapy is due to their connections with healthy body cells

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Memory. Illustration: shutterstock

Memory of all things / James L. McGough and Aurora LaPorte

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Artist's impression of a neutron star and white dwarf thrown away from their host galaxy. Once outside the galaxy, they merge to form the universe's loneliest supernova. Credit: Mark Garlick / space-art.co.uk / University of Warwick

The lone supernova in the universe

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Robots - complex machines. Illustration: shutterstock

The future changes shape / Sridhar Kota

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An illustration showing the photonic transistor created by the scientists. At its heart is a single atom (in orange) that directs photons (in yellow) in different directions

The world's first photonic transistor

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African elephant. Photo: shutterstock

Now it's official - elephants have been dying out at an alarming rate for the last decade

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Plastics that absorb carbon dioxide could one day be used in factory chimneys in the future. [Courtesy of ACS]

A "sponge" that absorbs carbon dioxide

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A modern ship powered by a kite-sail

A ship, a ship, with a wing like a dove*

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An artist's illustration of the inner environment of the Moon. Figure: NAOJ

The interior of the moon is still warm after billions of years

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Cigarettes - a box full of carcinogens. Illustration: shutterstock

A new method for identifying substances that cause cancer

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Medical research. Photo: shutterstock

53% of the external funding for research in hospitals comes from abroad and only 7.8% from the government

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The approximate position of comet ISON in our solar system at the time of Alma's observations. [Courtesy: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); NASA/ESA Hubble; M. Cordiner, NASA, et al.]

Comets as factories for the production of organic molecules

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Ancient copper awl. Photo: Yossi Gorfinkel

The oldest metal object found so far in the Middle East has been discovered

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Lung-on-a-chip mimics the microstructures of tissues with multiple airways. In this image, colorants flow in three different vertical paths separated from each other by transparent membranes (shown by the dashed rectangle). [Courtesy: RTI International]

Lung-on-a-chip

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Two proton decay. Illustration: shutterstock

The riddle of the proton radius / Jan K. Bernauer and Randolph Pohl

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From the right: Prof. Avraham Ben-Nun, Prof. Yehiel Shai, Dr. Nathalie Kaushensky and Omari Fingold. Inhibitory effect

To take advantage of the infection mechanism of the AIDS virus to fight autoimmune diseases

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This graph shows the wavelengths as a function of the number of carbon atoms in materials containing carbon and silicon atoms [SiC(2n+1)H]. When the chain has 13 or more carbon atoms, the absorptions of these chains overlap the spectral region associated with the phenomenon [Courtesy: D. Kokkin, ASU].

Have mysterious molecules been found in space?

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For instant weirdness: add water! / Nathan Collins

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Ebola virus. Illustration: shutterstock

New insights into the Ebola virus, following the unprecedented outbreak in West Africa

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Just before the end: did you know? Already in 1957 there was a first advertisement for driverless cars. The idea may have been good, but the technology took another fifty years to reach the point of realization.

Will driverless vehicles be used for crime?

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800 degrees from sunlight. NCF's facility for producing fuel from solar energy. Photography by Itai Nebo

Fuel from air and sunlight

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A planet scarred by tectonic activity on the eve of its sun becoming a red giant. Image: University of Washington

A large exoplanet increases the chances of sustaining life on Earth-like planets over time

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XNUMXD printed wave turbine prototype. Photo: Raphael Afri

Pink electricity. Thinking outside the box by eliminating the box.

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The lander of Luna-Globe, a Russian spacecraft planned to fly to the moon in 2016

The Russians are preparing to return to the moon

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From the movie "The Planet of the Apes - Dawn". PR photo

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