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February 2016

The orbits of the planets in the solar system. Infographic - shutterstock

2016 - leap year - the astronomical explanation

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Scott Kelly. From his Twitter account.

After almost a year in space, Scott Kelly is on his way back home: "I could have continued for another 100 years"

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The Golden Triangle in Laos. Photo: shutterstock

The blood trade in sin city

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A coin of Agrippa showing the portrait of Vespasian. From Wikipedia

The Hasmoneans - part XNUMX and last: Agrippa II - finished and not finished

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The chicken and egg paradox. Photo: shutterstock

This is the end of the chicken and egg paradox

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Defective male hormonal communication during the development of the reproductive system in the fetus prevents a normal transformation of the fetus from a female configuration to a male configuration. Illustration photo: Tyler Mullins.

Environmental feminization

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The SLS launcher has an orange stage in the center, similar to the shuttle boosters. Image: NASA

How Till was born

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The 3400-year-old statuette. Photo: Clara Amit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority

A 7-year-old boy uncovered a 3400-year-old statuette during a trip to Tel Rehov in the Beit Shean Valley

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Passeo-18 Lux. Illustration: Biotronics

LINC 2016: Studies Support the Use of Passeo-18 Lux as a Standard Procedure for the Treatment of Lower Extremity Arterial Occlusions

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Satellite communication. Illustration: SKYFI

The Israeli SKYFI, which develops satellite technology that allows access to the Internet, raised three million dollars led by the JVP Foundation

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Winners of the Yanai Award for Excellence in Academic Education with Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavi. (From right to left: Prof. Danny Raz, Prof. Ran El-Yaniv, Prof. Shlomo Bakhor, Prof. Mark Telsnik, Prof. Eilat Baram-Zabari, Prof. Danny Levin, Prof. Yossi Evron, Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavia, Prof. Yosef Ben Asher, Prof. Ross Pinsky, Prof. Ilan Mark, Prof. Mishna Moran Berkowitz and Omer Amit Chairman of the Technion Student Legends Photo: Avi Nishnivar, Technion spokeswoman

Eleven faculty members from the Technion won the Yanai Award for excellence in academic education

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The "Einstein Ring", as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, is a phenomenon of gravitational collapse. When a massive mass passes on one axis between a more distant celestial gram and the Earth, the light rays of the more distant gram are bent around the massive mass and form a ring known as the "Einstein Ring" from the perspective of the observer on Earth. Examining slight changes in the gravitational clouding will allow the detection of planets around a star that creates such clouding. Source: NASA.

NASA has announced a new space telescope, WFIRST, to be launched in the next decade

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A herd of cows graze in a field. Photo: shutterstock

The importance of the genetic diversity of farm animals

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From right to left: Prof. Rafi Koriat - one of the three co-chairmen of the Israel Nano Conference 2016, Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Economy Avi Hasson and Dan Wilensky, member of the conference's management. PR photo

The European Union's Horizon 2020 program will allocate billions of euros to research and innovation grants in the field of nanotechnology - including to researchers from industry and academia in Israel

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An integrin is a transmembrane protein that is sensitive to signals received both from inside the cell and from its external environment. In its outer part it includes a binding site consisting of a sequence of three defined amino acids. In its internal part it includes a link to a material called Talin. In this way, the protein communicates between the inside of the cell and its external environment. Illustration: from Wikipedia

Integrin clusters are the universal units for cell adhesion

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Prof. Benny Dekal in the laboratory. Photo: Sheba Medical Center

Professor Binyamin Dekel - winner of the 2015 Zaim family award for excellence in cancer research

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Despite the high variation in body structure of adult animals (below), at the phylotypic stage (above) their embryos look very similar to each other.

The "molecular fingerprint" that characterizes embryonic development in the animal kingdom has been found

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The Minister of Science, Technology and Space, Ofir Akunis, presents to the government plenum the plan to strengthen the position of the chief scientists. Photo: L.A.M

Science Minister Ofir Akunis: We will work to regulate the activities of the chief scientists in the government ministries

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Black holes in the five-dimensional universe. Image: University of Cambridge

A black hole in a five-dimensional universe could undermine general relativity

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Prof. Guy Bartel. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Nano Israel: Technion researchers have developed a new method for compressing light waves, which will improve the resolution of existing microscopes and the printing of electronic applications

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The new model of Spaceship 2 spacecraft, "Unity". Source: Virgin Galactic.

More than a year after the crash of the spaceship 2, Virgin Galactic unveiled the new model of the spacecraft, which will take tourists to the edge of space

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XNUMXD printer for the production of nanometer systems. AVBA PR photo

A XNUMXD nanometer printer for the production of extremely tiny structures

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Prof. Nir Tesler. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Dramatic improvement in the efficiency of solar cells

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XNUMXD chip design. Image: Stanford University

Transformations in the world of technology - where are we headed?

Fish farming in a rice field

Save and grow

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