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August 2015

Bats in the cave. Photo: All-stock-photos/Shutterstock

From bat chatter to baby talk / Jason J. Goldman

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A typical neuron. Image: z0w/Shutterstock

An artificial neuron that mimics a human neuron

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Movement of gases in space. Illustration < a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1964531p1.html">Peter Kai/Shutterstock

Basics of blitzkrieg / Tim Faluka

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Prof. Jacob Beckenstein. From Wikipedia

The recipient of the Israel Prize in Physics, Prof. Jacob Beckenstein from the Hebrew University, has passed away

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The eye-spotted octopus (Octopus bimaculoides) is characterized by two pairs of blue eye-like spots on each side of its head. It lives in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and is also used as an ornamental animal for an aquarium. Photo by Roy Caldwell/UC Berkeley

The genome of a common octopus species, which allows them to have three almost completely independent hearts and minds in each arm, has been deciphered

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Space debris in low orbits. Image: NASA

Israel-USA cooperation for monitoring and preventing collisions in space was signed

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Ivanov Gleb/Shutterstock

save the elephant

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Tesla Powerwall, from Wikipedia

Storing electricity at home - a solution for electricity consumption during peak hours and regulating the electricity generated from alternative energies

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Colliding galaxies in the cluster Obel 3827. Courtesy of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), NASA and the European Space Agency/Hubble Space Telescope

Dark matter throws a clue / Clara Moskowitz

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Shrolik, the Israeli of Dosh. Photo: Y.S. From Wikipedia

The five Israeli developments you must know

Pseudoscience - we should have known much more today. Phrenology chart from 1883. In the first half of the 19th century, phrenology was a popular study and considered scientific. In the second half of the century, the theory was largely abandoned. From Wikipedia, public domain

Pseudoscience and conspiracy theories are not victimless crimes against science

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Robot waiter. Photo: Tom Buehler/CSAIL

Cooperation between robots, under conditions of uncertainty

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An animation showing how the orbits of stars in the Milky Way may change. In the picture you see two pairs of stars (marked in blue and red). Each couple started their life on the same path and suddenly one of the stars in the couple changed its path. The star marked in red has completed its transition to its new orbit while the star marked in blue is still moving. Photo Credit: Illustration by Dana Berry/SkyWorks Digital, Inc.; SDSS collaboration

About a third of the stars in the Milky Way have moved

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Prof. Haim Ashad, Chairman of the Space Committee, National Research and Development Council

"Israel can and should be a world leader in tiny and low internet communication satellites."

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Herds of animals in Africa. Photo: COLOMBO NICOLA/Shutterstock

Saving Africa's Wildlife Part II

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Protecting a computer from intrusion. Image: Aohodesign/Shutterstock

Hot Air Hackers / Jess Amspec

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Antiaging medicine. Image: iQoncept/Shutterstock

Health sciences - can we stop aging? / Karen Weintraub

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Photographs from a scanning electron microscope showing a periodically ordered porous resin pattern (A and B) as well as the crystalline nanostructure of the finished silicon after removal of the pattern (C and D). [Courtesy: Wiesner lab]

Fabrication of perfect silicon nanostructures

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The white stripes stretching across are stars that have moved from their position during the long exposure due to the movement of the Earth. The meteors are the vertical lines. Archive photo: Einat Zbirin

Mass show - thousands came to watch the meteor shower at Mitzpe Ramon

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fire ball. Illustration: shutterstock

NASA: August's Perseid shower - the meteor shower that produces the most fireballs

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Cecil, a lion that is a national symbol. Photo: Daughter#3, Wikipedia

White Hunter, Black Silver

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Prof. Galia Avidan. Photographer: Danny Machlis, Ben-Gurion University

A new study expands the knowledge regarding the uniqueness of face perception mechanisms among humans

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The "food pyramid" according to the "Paleolithic diet" theory. Image: Maria Ticce/Shutterstock

The voice of the skeptic - Paleolithic diet, genetically modified food and food prohibitions / Michael Shermer

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On the agenda - why fetuses should not be out of bounds

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The Veggie Plant Growing System on the International Space Station. Photo: NASA

The meal is ready - the members of the space station team ate for the first time lettuce that they grew themselves

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