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January 2016

A robot with feelings. Illustration: shutterstock

Between vampiric drones and robots that recognize emotions

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This artist's illustration shows the possible appearance of the ninth planet from the Sun, which is likely to be composed mostly of gases similar to Uranus and Neptune. Hypothetical lightning illuminates the night side. Illustration: Caltech

Indirect evidence for the existence of a ninth planet: a gas giant that orbits the Sun once every ten thousand years

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Worms - photo: shutterstock

Research in worms reveals how a compensatory mechanism in the brain works and points to its ancient evolutionary roots

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NASA Chief Charles Bolden at the Ilan Ramon Space Conference, Herzliya, January 2010

Astronauts, heads of space agencies and people from the space industries will participate in the annual Ilan Ramon International Space Conference which will be held under the banner "Space for the Future of Mankind"

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Isolation of the gene for asexual reproduction in plants. Tel Aviv University

Researchers from Tel Aviv University succeeded in isolating a gene that activated an asexual reproduction mechanism in plants

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: silver and gold metal nanowires inside the growth solution. Photo: Prof. Gil Markovich, Tel Aviv University

Israeli researchers have developed a coating solution for phone and computer screens that will allow the development of flexible screens

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Combination of hardware and software. Smart watches on display at CES 2016. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The guide for choosing a computer course

An artist's rendering of the powerful supernova ASASSN-15lh as it would have been seen from a planet 10,000 light-years away in the same galaxy where the supernova occurred. Illustration: Beijing Planetarium/Jin Ma

The most powerful supernova ever observed

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Porous catalysts that capture carbon dioxide and convert it into a useful fuel, analogous to the ability of plants to convert carbon dioxide into biomass. Computer modeling shows how the functional groups inside a porous solid substrate can be tuned to obtain accelerated reactions to split carbon dioxide and produce useful products (Design: Jingyun Ye).

Power generation inspired by plants

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A herd of elephants graze in a reserve in Kenya. social animals. Photo: shutterstock

The social network of the elephants

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The rig and the fragments of the tinel are dragged to shore. Photo: from Elon Musk's Twitter page.

SpaceX failed in its attempt to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 launcher on a naval pad

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On the map, which you can see above, the focal point from which the lines come out is at the point where the earth is located. To his right the older stars (red) around the center of the galaxy and to his left the younger stars (blue) in the outer parts of the disk. As the researchers in the group say, the Milky Way galaxy has grown outward over time.

Not just the entire universe: the Milky Way galaxy is expanding outward over time

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Prof. Shelly Tsyl in her lab. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson

at the rate of the heart

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A lungless salamander of the species (Desmognathus conanti) in the southern USA. Photo: shutterstock

The salamander presents: a terrestrial vertebrate that breathes without lungs

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Gold nanoparticles for the treatment of atherosclerosis. Photo: PR

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University: Arteriosclerosis can be cured with the help of tiny gold nanoparticles

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Open mine in New Zealand. Photo: shutterstock

the anthropogenic period

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Penetration through Titan's nebulous atmosphere. Photo from the Cassini spacecraft on December 4, 2015.

Titan - findings 2015

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A simulation of Dream Chaser docked at the International Space Station. Source: Sierra Nevada Corporation.

Meet "Dream Chaser", the new member of NASA's supply spacecraft fleet for the International Space Station

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Image from the music video for the song Blackstar. David Bowie as a priest who offers a new religion, the Black Star book for the weird and the unusual.

David Bowie - The Man Who Fell to Earth

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A simulation of Juno near Jupiter. The probe's massive solar panels can be clearly seen. Image: NASA

A new record for NASA: how to produce solar energy at a distance of 800 million km from the sun?

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Prof. Roland Kahan. From Wikipedia

Wolf Prize for Medicine for discovering the link between cancer and diabetes

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Prof. Yosef Amri from the Weizmann Institute. From Wikipedia

Wolf Prize in Physics to Prof. Yosef Emery from the Weizmann Institute for developing the field of physics of mesoscopic and random systems

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biochemistry. Illustration: shutterstock

The discoverers of the connections between chemistry and biology won the 2016 Wolf Prize for Chemistry

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The theory of "random levitation" claims that humans are able to characterize and identify whole objects even from a small part of the original image of the object. [Courtesy: © ChenPG / Fotolia]

How does the brain manage to process so much information?

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Prof. Trudy McKay, University of North Carolina. Winner of the 2016 Wolf Prize for Agriculture

The pioneer of the genetic architecture of complex traits, Prof. Trudy McKay from the USA won the Wolf Prize for Agriculture

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