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January 2015

The robots are just the vanguard force. Robonaut-2 at the space station (right) and Rex Wollheim at the Ramon gathering Photographs: NASA, Sivan Farage.

There is no substitute for human activity in space, says astronaut Rex Welheim, who visited as part of Space Week

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Microscope image of gold nanoparticles produced with the help of micro-plasmas on an innovative and extremely sensitive test strip, a strip capable of early detection of heart attacks.

Gold nanoparticles for early detection of heart attacks

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Prof. James Bjorken, the weak force researcher and astrophysicist Prof. Robert Kirchner won the Wolf Prize for Physics

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Prof. Dan Shechtman in his laboratory near the electron microscope. Photo: Technion

Prof. Dan Shechtman, Chairman of the Wolf Foundation: No party guarantees the restoration of scientific research in Israel and the prevention of brain drain

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Viruses try to penetrate the body and challenge the immune system. Illustration: shutterstock

Three immune system researchers were awarded the 2015 Wolf Prize in Medicine

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Prof. James Arthur, University of Toronto, winner of the 2015 Wolf Prize in Mathematics. PR photo

Prof. James C. Arthur from the University of Toronto in Canada won the 2015 Wolf Prize in the mathematics category

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Prof. Linda Saif from Ohio State University in her lab. PR photo

Researcher of the immune system in humans and farm animals and who develops strategies for the development of antiviral vaccines won the Wolf Prize for Agriculture

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A modern human skull from 55 thousand years ago that was discovered in Menot Cave in the Western Galilee. Photo: Clara Amit, courtesy of the Antiquities Authority

A skull discovered in the Western Galilee proves that modern man migrated from Africa about 65 thousand years ago

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Group member Or Tamir with a model of "spaghetti" against the background of an illustration of a hook. Photographs: Jonathan Ashur, NASA

Students from Jerusalem won the Space Olympics for Ilan and Assaf Ramon

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In the photo, from right to left: Astronaut Rex Walheim from NASA, Brigadier General Assaf Agmon, head of the Fisher Institute for Strategic Air and Space Research, Major General David Buck, Deputy Commander of the US Space Command, Major General (res.) Herzl Budinger, astronaut Nicole Stott, Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel, chairman of the Israel Space Agency and Tal Inbar, head of the Center for Space Research at the Fisher Institute. Photo: Sion Farage

Hundreds of participants in the tenth international space conference of the Fisher Institute and the Ilan Ramon Ministry of Science

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A cliff near the Dead Sea. Photo: shutterstock

Who will save the springs?

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Among the first developments: controlling the phone using hand gestures while driving, a guidance app for the blind, a musical glove that responds to color

The Technion is launching with Microsoft the Internet of Things project that simulates working at a start-up

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Prof. Michael Levitt. From Wikipedia

About 1500 participants are expected to attend the iNNOVEX2015 conference, the main event for technological innovation in Israel

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The Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on December 19, 2012 carrying the 34th crew members to the International Space Station. Photo: NASA/Carla Ciopi.

Israeli astronaut: Not in this decade

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Homo erectus, and the timeline of human development. Illustration: shutterstock

Where did we come from - if I had a hammer / Ian Tattersall

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EIG neurofeedback. Illustration: Sivan Kinreich

How are sleep disorders checked in real time?

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Sam Golkis (left) and Kalim Churiomov from the Comet Explorers at the event in honor of the landing of Philae. In the background, a model of the comet. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The news from Rosetta - the rate of water evaporation is increasing

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Crossing environmental boundaries

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The cover of NASA's Spinoff 2015 book

NASA presents: the technologies it developed for space that became useful products in the past year

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One of the deadliest creatures in the world. Snail Conus geographus | Photo: Kerry Matz National

The sugar trap

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Researchers from MIT and NASA hope that their proposal will be selected for a flyby mission near Jupiter's large moon, and investigate whether it harbors life Photo: NASA/JPL/SETI Institute

Simple electronics on the way to Europa's moon

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Greek soldiers. Illustration: shutterstock

The Hasmoneans Chapter 2: Will? I did not know!

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clear water. Photo: shutterstock

Nanoparticles for producing clean drinking water

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Winter 2015 activities at the Charles Claure Science Garden in Rehovot. Photo: Public Relations

Heat and cold - winter Saturdays at the Science Garden in Rehovot

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Mercedes F 015 car. PR photo

The driver's seat is facing backwards

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