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February 2017

The jewel leper is a spectacular species both visually and from an evolutionary point of view. Its unique venom is capable of enslaving the minds of other insects. Source: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GNU Free Documentation License.

How a wasp turns a cockroach into a zombie under her control

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Salt crystals on top of a leaf of a mangrove plant, which is resistant to salt water. Source: / Ulf Mehlig Wikimedia.

The salty solution: irrigation with diluted seawater

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Ofer Doron, CEO of the Space Industry of the Aerospace Industry at the 12th Ilan Ramon Space Conference held in Herzliya on 30/1/17

"The strategic investment in observation satellites has proven itself, it should also be done in the field of communication satellites"

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Tambora volcano on the island of Sumbawa in Indonesia. Photo: Jialiang Gao / Wikimedia.

Frankenstein, volcanoes and climate engineering

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Maurice Kahan is interviewed by Alsdwyer Ross of The Economist at the Globes Israel Business Conference, December 2016. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The selection committee of the iNNOVEX conference announced the winners of the Global Innovation Leader award for 2017

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Cannabis plants. Source: Chmee2 / Wikimedia.

Can medical cannabis stop the painkiller epidemic?

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Outgoing NASA chief Charles Bolden at the 12th Ilan Ramon Space Conference. Photo: Leon Rosenblum

The head of NASA going to the science site: "I don't see the possibility that NASA's missions to explore the Earth will be canceled"

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Demonstration of the Israeli StemRed radiation suit next to the model of NASA's Orion spacecraft. Photo: Roy Shlomi, Ministry of Science

Israeli development for radiation protection will be launched into space as part of an agreement between the Israeli and German space agencies

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Palm Beach, Acre. Photo credit: Moran Niv, Ziv Neorim.

The winter visit of the jellyfish: a swarm of wandering filamentous jellyfish has arrived on the shores of the country

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The Wirgo gravitational wave detector near Pisa in Italy is supposed to return to operation in the spring of 2017, and thus it is possible that three detectors of this type will operate together, in three different places in the world, for at least a month. Source: The Virgo collaboration.

A new detector will determine the origin of gravitational waves

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