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July 2015

Protective vest against radiation. Photo: StemRad company

Lockheed Martin and Israel's StemRad are testing a radiation shielding vest for first responders for possible use on space flights

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The chemical formula of the "love hormone" oxytocin. Photo: shutterstock

Tu Bab: The dark side of the love hormone - similarity between its effects and the effects of alcohol

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Asteroid attack on Earth and Moon. Illustration: shutterstock

Oceans from the sky / David Jewitt and Edward D. Young

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Illustration depicting the pyrolysis process and the absorbed amounts of carbon dioxide at different temperatures. Photo: Rice University

Bucky balls help preserve the environment

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A concept car equipped with human-machine interfaces, on the way to an autonomous car. The car was designed by a Swiss design company for the RINSPEED Institute. The model was placed at the Svit 2015 exhibition held in March 2015 in Hanover, Germany. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The transport of the future: when robots start honking on the road

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Members of the Israeli delegation to the Chemistry Olympiad in Baku 2015 - (from right to left) Itai Tzviali, Ron Solan, Dr. Izna Nigel-Ettinger, Prof. Zeev Gross, Roni Arnzon and Nadav Gnoser.

The International Chemistry Olympiad has ended: three medals for the Israeli delegation, which was trained at the Technion

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plastic. Illustration: shutterstock

Extremely strong and recyclable plastic

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The glass wing butterfly. Photo: shutterstock

Learn from the butterflies about full transparency

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Changing blankets in the bed. Photo: shutterstock

Dusty slumber / Peter Andrew Smith

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A robot hosts company for the elderly. Illustration: shutterstock

How to harness the robots for daily assistance to the elderly

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Risk from marble. Photo: Rennal Pickholz

Algae killers from the Red Sea

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A lamb scratches its back on a tree trunk. Photo: shutterstock

Tingling, itching and God forbid / Andrea Alfonso

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The structure of a cell from a multicellular animal. Photo: shutterstock

Researchers from Ben-Gurion University have developed a unique thin sectioning method that allows a precise examination of the parts of the cell

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Ilya Glantz and Zafarir Ozer. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Technion students have developed a method for the precise release of imaging pills in the intestine

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popcorn. Photo: shutterstock

An introductory course to the physics of popcorn / Rachel Nauer

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The stones of the Western Wall. Photo: Asaf Eliasson, shutterstock

De'a: Tisha B'av: From your enemies and your destroyers, they came out of you

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Chicks cry for food in the nest. Photo: shutterstock

The animals leave for independence

human cells. Illustration: shutterstock

Reprogramming cells / Ryan Bradley

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A view of a cluster of young stars (million years old), known as the North American Nebula or the Plesian Nebula (top right). This is a clean and processed version of the original Spitzer Space Telescope image. NASA/JPL-Caltech. Illustration: shutterstock

New video: A high-resolution tour of the center of the Milky Way

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Photomicrograph of a flat lens. Credit: Patrice Geneve, Federico Capasso and Francesco Aita, Harvard SEAS

A new figure for the lens - flat as a pancake / Prachi Patel

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A vegetable garden in an urban environment. Photo: shutterstock

The challenge facing humanity / Michael E. Weber

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Illustration: Earth (left) and the 452% larger planet Kepler 60b. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle

The discovery of the "Ben David" planet of the Earth by the Kepler space telescope has been confirmed

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The APC gene is off on the left and on on the right, you can see that the tumor has shrunk. Image: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

A single gene turns colon cancer cells back into normal tissue in mice

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Removed. Illustration: shutterstock

Ambiguity makes us lie

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The reindeer is preparing to shed its antlers. Photo: shutterstock

From the northern elk to Ein Biyonit

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