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March 2015

A postcard illustrating the general structure of the World Exhibition held in Paris in 1889. From Wikipedia

It was the scientific experiments that saved the Eiffel Tower from the planned demolition 20 years later

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Free electron laser. PR photo

Electromagnetic radiation on lung cancer cells caused their complete death

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A robot assists in the operating room. Illustration: shutterstock

Google and Johnson & Johnson will collaborate on the development of surgical robots

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durability. Illustration: shutterstock

Sustainability - a view from nature

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A bowl from the Early Bronze Age 1 (3500 BC). Photo: Yuli Schwartz, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority

Evidence of Egyptian settlement from about 5,000 years ago is being uncovered these days in central Tel Aviv

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Modern operating room. Photo: shutterstock

The differences and similarities between the professions: medical engineering, medical technologist, and biomedical engineering

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Indian crow in Goa. Photo: shutterstock

Crow invades

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potassium salt. Photo: CALTECH

A cheap and common material turned out to be an excellent catalyst

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A long trip on the way to Mars; NASA sends an identical twin and examines how a year's stay in space affects the astronauts

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Nano satellite. From the US Navy website

Nano spacecraft for micro moons

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Members of the International Space Station's 43rd crew take a break from training for a group photo. From the left, Scott Kelly from NASA, Gandy Padalka and Mikhail Kurinenko from the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Kelly and Kurinenko will spend a whole year on the space station. Photo: Image Credit: Roscosmos/GCTC

Successful launch of an astronaut and a cosmonaut who will spend a year on the space station

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Description of the capture of the rock on the surface of a large asteroid by a robotic spacecraft in Operation ARM. Image: NASA

NASA will tow a rock from the face of a near-Earth asteroid into lunar orbit where astronauts can study it

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The system without contact sensors for assessing the quality of sleep by recording breathing sounds during night sleep

A system has been developed for assessing the quality of sleep without touch sensors

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A study by Helled, Galanti and Kaspi published in Nature determines the rotation time of Saturn (Credit: Helled et al)

Israeli researchers accurately measured the length of the day on Saturn: "It is amazing to see that in 2015 we still lack basic details about bodies in the solar system"

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An asteroid passes by the Earth. Illustration: shutterstock

Contrary to writing in the tabloids: a large asteroid will indeed pass by the Earth this morning but will not collide with it

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The video signal from the television receiver (on the left) is transmitted to the neon lamp and causes its brightness to change according to the needs of the image at each point. This system produced a dim orange image, 1.5 inches (about 4 centimeters) in diameter.

The mother of the television - 90 years since the first experiment of the mechanical television

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The robots Billy and Charlie. Photo: Technion

Billy and Charlie are going big

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An elephant's rib with cut marks on it, together with flint tools including a hand stone as found in the excavation at the Ravadi site. Photo: Dr. Ran Barkai, Tel Aviv University

Israeli researchers have found the earliest animal fat discovered so far on flint vessels half a million years old

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Very low expression level of MIF in motor neurons Photo: Dr. Adrian Israelson's laboratory team, Ben Gurion University

Researchers have discovered a new component of selective damage in the muscular dystrophy disease ALS

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The photo of the clay candle that was uncovered during the digging of the hole. Photo: The Robbery Prevention Unit at the Antiquities Authority

A 1400-year-old pottery candle was discovered by a spur in the Hefer Valley

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Emi Neter, from Wikipedia

Emi Neter - lays the foundation for modern algebra

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Amazon's cargo drone. PR photo

Amazon received permission from the FAA to fly drones designed to deliver packages to product buyers

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usurpation Illustration: shutterstock

Altruism - genetics and chemistry of altruism

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Speed ​​dating. Illustration: shutterstock

The evolution of Speed ​​Dating - two-way biomimicry

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The inclination of the earth compared to the sun in each of the months of the year. Illustration: shutterstock

Spring starts tomorrow, a solar eclipse today, and a new moon is also close at birth - Equinox 2015

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