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November 2015

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

Technology will lower insurance prices - the era of driverless vehicles is upon us

An obese girl. Illustration: shutterstock

Mothers play a significant role in preventing eating disorders in their daughters

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Photograph showing examples of individual pacemaker cells [courtesy: Vasanth Vedantham]

Stem cells for the development of biological pacemakers

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A view of Titan, a moon of Saturn. Is it suitable for life? Image: NASA and the European Space Agency

There are thousands of potentially habitable planets in the galaxy

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An unmanned helicopter shows the way to the Mars rover. Image: NASA/JPL

A drone helicopter will fly ahead of the Mars rover to allow it to travel further

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neurons. Illustration: shutterstock

An international research team has revealed for the first time imaging of neurally active brain tissue

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optical communication. Illustration: shutterstock

Researchers managed to extract a single photon from a flash of light

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Artist's impression of a star being pulled into a black hole and destroyed (left), and the black hole later emitting a "jet" of plasma made up of the debris from the star's destruction. Illustration: Amadeo Bacher, Johns Hopkins University.

For the first time - watching the entire process of a star being swallowed by a black hole until the plasma jets are emitted

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Is organic food also healthy? Probably his. Image: shutterstock (the image has been further processed)

"Is organic food healthier?" According to scientific knowledge, this opinion is not correct

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In the figure you can see the ratio between the photovoltage and photocurrent in the photoanode for different radiation concentration levels. As the radiation intensity increases, there is a significant increase in photocurrent. Similar to solar cells, for low voltage photovoltaics, this increase is directly proportional to the radiation intensity. In addition, with the increase in radiation intensity, the photovoltage built up in the electrode also increases. Since the addition of photovoltage comes in addition to the increase in current, there is an increase in the efficiency of the energy conversion. On the side of the graph you can see an illustration of the experimental system. The light comes from a light source that simulates sunlight. This light is focused on the photoanode with the help of a lens. The intensity of the radiation affecting the electrochemical cell is determined by the distance between the photoanode and the lens

Sun, water, fuel

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A painting depicting Herod. From Wikipedia

Miriam the Hasmonean and Herod - love, intrigues, politics and murders

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Israeli viper. Photo: shutterstock

Is there an arms race in venomous animals as well?

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Smart coffee machine with touch screen. Photo: shutterstock

"Anything connected to the Internet can be hacked"

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ionic liquids. Photo: Umea University, Sweden

Ionic liquids for extracting materials from wood

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The vertical landing of the New Shepard launcher. Screenshot: Blue Origin

Blue Origin succeeded for the first time in the history of the space program in safely landing a reusable space launcher

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Education Minister Naftali Bennett and former President Shimon Peres at the press conference to announce the "Five Givers" program. Photo: Spokesperson of the Ministry of Education

Education in Israel - the total expenses are among the largest in the OECD. The expenses per student are smaller than the average

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A technician uses the layered glasses to handle a complex system. Epson PR photo

Epson launches the augmented reality system Moverio Pro BT-2000 intended for workers in complex areas

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. The earliest known domesticated pea seeds in the world found in Echihud. Photo: Kobi Vardi, courtesy of the Antiquities Authority

Early man 10,000 years ago preferred legumes and grew them in organized agriculture

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The thin, dark streaks on the slopes of Bamai hills like the one in the section of the Horowitz Crater could have been formed by the seasonal flow of water on present-day Mars. The channels are several hundred meters long

A chance for life on Mars

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Simulation of the Earth's internal structure within a simulation of the movement of the tectonic plates. Courtesy of IBM

IBM researchers share an award in the field of parallel computing for simulating the movement of tectonic plates and earthquakes

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Imaging of Australopithecus. Illustration: shutterstock

"Lucy, the Australopithecus fossil - evidence that erectness preceded brain growth"

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The variety of physical features, the size of the genomes and the lifestyles of viruses all make their classification difficult. New research uses protein folding as evidence that viruses are living creatures that belong in their own branch of the branch of life. [Courtesy of Julie McMahon]

Are viruses living things?

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Scientists in uniform work on the Xenon 1 ton TPC. Photo: PR

The goal: to solve the mystery of dark matter

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Tal Drori, director of the Multimeia Analytics lab at the IBM research lab in Haifa. PR photo

Computer vision is an important component of the cognitive age

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The satellite is loaded 5. Image: Wikipedia

Space Communications lost contact with the Amos 5 satellite

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