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September 2016

The interior of the stable. The round stone basins were probably used to store food and water for the animals

A 1500-year-old farm animal stable was uncovered in Obedat National Park

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Imaging of the Osiris-Rex probe

NASA will launch the Osiris-Rex probe to return a sample from an asteroid to Earth

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Shared photo for the Technion team. Standing, from right to left: Dolev Simon - security pilot, Yevgeni Gutnik - assistant supervisor (aeronautics), student Ido Greenfeld (aeronautics), student Omri Argov (aeronautics), student Ziv Shein (aeronautics), Dror Artzi - senior lecturer and project supervisor (aeronautics ), student Adi Toprak (aeronautics), student Yuval Paz (electricity), student Adi Nissim (electricity), student Nitzan Shmuel (electricity), student Mia Scott (aeronautics), student Uri Avraham (electricity), student Roni Forte (electricity) , AIDS fellow, PhD student and supervisor (electricity). Sitting from right to left: student Shlomi Busher (electricity), student Gal Zolkar (aeronautics), student Stanislav Shugaev (aeronautics), project leader student Eliran Eyal (aeronautics), student Ra'a David (aeronautics), student Dor Noti (aeronautics). Missing from the picture: the students Yegor Shmuklarevitz (aeronautics) and Ahmed Kaswani (electricity). Photo credit: Technion spokespeople

An achievement for the Technion team in an international competition for autonomous aircraft (AUVSI)

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[Aldo Lobos Three strains of fungi capable of recycling cobalt and lithium from rechargeable battery waste. [Courtesy: Aldo Lobos]

Recycling precious metals from phone batteries with the help of mushrooms

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Do flowers conduct electricity? It's not for nothing: in the future it will be possible to create much more sophisticated plant-electronics interfaces. roses Photo: shutterstock

Not just a flower

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Because before melanoma spreads, it sends out tiny bubbles containing genetic material of the microRNA type, and they create the change in the structure of the dermis - in preparation for the absorption of the cancer cells and the transfer of metastases. Illustration: Tel Aviv University

Researchers from Tel Aviv University discovered the mechanism of the spread of melanoma cancer metastases and found ways to prevent its spread

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Prof. Doron Melamed teaches. Photo: Technion

The salvage pathway of the cancer cell

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Figure 2: Chirality demonstrated by hands and by a molecule in a right-handed and left-handed configuration. Image source NASA, taken from Wikipedia.

An innovative method for the synthesis of chiral molecules

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Prof. Stephen Hawking in a plane that allows training in zero gravity conditions. Photo: NASA

A new study sheds light on the important effect that the levels of chaperone proteins have in the muscular dystrophy disease ALS

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From right to left: Ofer Doron, director general of the aerospace industry's Mabat Space plant, director general of the Ministry of Science Peretz Vezan, minister of science Ofir Akunis and director general of the Space Agency Avi Blasberger. PR photo

Science Minister Akunis ordered the formulation of a national space program for Israel

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An explosion from SpaceX's Falcon 9 launcher on the launch pad in Florida with the satellite loaded 6. Screenshot from RT

SpaceX has begun an orderly process of checking the malfunction that caused the loss of the rocket and the Amos 6 satellite on it

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The skeletal muscle system of men and women. Illustration: shutterstock

make muscles

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President Barack Obama tours SpaceX's private rocket complex at the Kennedy Space Center on April 15, 2010, accompanied by the company's CEO, Elon Musk. Official White House photo

A SpaceX explosion could cause a chain reaction of delaying many of the company's launches

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A Falcon 9 launcher explosion on September 1, 2016 at the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, which serves as a space launch station alongside the nearby Kennedy Space Center. Photo from the base's security cameras.

Communication Space: Losing Amos 6 has a material impact on society; Facebook: We will have to do without satellite for now

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Testing antennas on the Amos 6 satellite at the aerospace industry facilities

The Aerospace Industry: We will be at the disposal of a communications space company * We hope that the state will act for the preservation of knowledge

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An explosion from SpaceX's Falcon 9 launcher on the launch pad in Florida with the satellite loaded 6. Screenshot from RT

SpaceX first response: the explosion of the Falcon 9 and Amos 6 happened due to an anomaly in the launch pad, and not in the rocket itself

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Explosion at the SpaceX launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Photo: NASA's Kennedy Space Center

Explosion at the SPACEX launch pad at Cape Canaveral * Prof. Ben Israel: the Amos 6 satellite was destroyed

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Research and development. Photo: shutterstock

A 4.8% increase in the national expenditure for civil research and development in 2015

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7,000-year-old olive pits that were discovered in Tel-Zaf, and testified to earlier agriculture than previously thought. Photo: Eli Gestein, for Haifa University

Olive pits from 7,000 years ago reveal that our ancestors at that time were already farmers

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