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2017

The contours seen on the surface of the red giant π1 Gruis are heat convection cells, in which hot plasma moves up from the depths of the star, cools, and returns back inside. Despite the blur in the image, she breaks new ground in her ability to observe the star's disk from a distance of 530 light years, and for the first time identify this phenomenon directly on a star other than our sun. Source: ESO.

Astronomers discovered huge "bubbles" on the face of a red giant

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Neutron star merger - breakthrough of the year according to SCIENCE magazine

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Should scientists leave the laboratory and enter politics? Illustration: pixabay.

Should scientists enter politics?

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Hurricane Harvey. Photo: NASA.

Drought, hurricanes and Trump: 2017 summary in the environment

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Another hint that plants hear is a phenomenon called "buzz pollination", in which, it has been demonstrated, the buzzing of a bee at a certain frequency stimulates the plant to release pollen. Photo: Bob Peterson.

Do plants hear?

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The Dead Sea. Photo: Itamar Grinberg / israeltourism.

a dying sea

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Illustration: pixabay.

To understand the abilities of consciousness with the help of brain research

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Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel. PR photo

2017 in space: the chairman of the space agency is optimistic about the communication satellite program and the SpaceIL project

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Illustration: pixabay.

The synthetic melanin that will act as a natural radiation filter

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Prof. Ilan Dinstein. Source: Ben-Gurion University.

Do you think your mind is reliable?

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Ebola virus. Source: CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith.

Did you cut down a forest? Beware of Ebola

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The Cassini spacecraft in the vicinity of Saturn and its rings. Image: NASA/JPL.

2017 in space - the end of the Cassini mission to Saturn

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Establishing new renewable energy projects and operating them are cheaper today in the US than producing energy from existing facilities that are based on coal and nuclear energy. Photo: Antonio Garcia, Unsplash.

Clean energy, now cheap

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1. Giorgio Pelucci, Scientific Director of the SESAME Regional Particle Accelerator inaugurated in Jordan. Photo: Ruth Lower, Technion spokeswoman.

Dinosaurs, black holes and the regional particle accelerator - at an international conference at the Technion

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Radio observations shed light on a neutron star collision event

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Simulation of the Amos 5 satellite. Source: Andrzej Olchawa, Wikimedia Commons.

Over a year after the explosion of Amos 6 - there is still no agreed outline for the construction of Amos 8

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night monkey Credit: The photos were taken by the local organization in Peru, NPC, of ​​the members of the Haimbrasbamba campesino community. Courtesy of the TIME organization.

An animal protection organization bought 7,000 dunams of jungle in the Amazon

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The illuminated trail left behind by the Falcon 9 launcher, which stunned the people of California last Friday. Photography: Kevin Gill.

2017: SpaceX's incredible year

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Illustration: Patrick J. Lynch.

A new wireless pacemaker may prevent common complications

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National Academy of Sciences - Photo by Od Katzman.

The National Academy of Sciences will hold a "Job Fair" for Israeli researchers abroad

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Assembling the payload fairing of the Falcon Heavy launcher around Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster. Photo: SpaceX.

Musk's Tesla car is getting ready to launch near Mars

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Illustration: pixabay.

Hand by order

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Kinneret. Photo: Daniel Weber.

drying out?

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A skull from Jebel Ayehud. Source: Ryan Somma.

Fossils from Morocco complicate the story of the origin of modern man

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"Agroforestry" Photo: Jim Robinson, USDA-NRCS / National Agroforestry Center.

Forestry agriculture: a method of agriculture that combines herbaceous and woody crops

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