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March 2017

Neurons of a mouse embryo grown in a Petri dish. The axons, the extensions of the nerve cells, are the green extensions in the picture. Source: NIH.

A little less, a little more

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The blurry photo of Despina. Source: NASA.

On Despina, a moon of Neptune

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Tamiron in the winter pool in Rehovot, 2010. Photo: Gidozz, Wikimedia.

Nature's public pool

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mother and baby FROM PIXABAY.COM.

"The chemistry of a mother's love"

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The plant Arabidopsis, after genetic engineering (right) during which 11 genes involved in the production of cholesterol were inserted into it, produces cholesterol in a quantity 15 times greater than a normal white Arabidopsis (left). Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

green cholesterol

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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, March 13, 2017. Source: The White House and Trump's Twitter account.

Trump's budget proposal: "Funding for climate change research is a waste of money"

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A simulation of the Milky Way galaxy. The blue halo around it comes to illustrate the estimated distribution of the dark matter around the galaxy. Source: ESO/L. Calçada.

Probing in the dark for dark matter

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Source: Julia Janeta.

To smell like a dog you have to learn to sniff!

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Image: pixabay.com.

Computing with the help of DNA strands

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A simulation of the "Asteroid Deflection Mission", which is currently in the planning stages without final approval. According to the mission schedule, a space vehicle, transported by an advanced ion engine, will reach a near-Earth asteroid, land on it and grab a rock block with a mass of several tons and move it into orbit around the moon. There, astronauts in the Orion spacecraft will reach the asteroid piece and return samples from it to Earth. The mission combines both the scientific aspect of asteroid research, but is primarily done to prove and realize advanced electric ion propulsion technology that will assist in future Mars probes. Image: NASA.

The sword of cuts in Trump's budget proposal will not significantly harm NASA

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from Athens Source: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.

On Mathon, a tiny moon of Saturn

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The tobacco moth aphid. Source: Courtesy of Tel Aviv University.

Researchers have uncovered the take-off mechanism of the tobacco moth aphid

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The drilling rig from which the core was mined. Source: Prof. Motti Stein - The Hebrew University.

The Dead Sea records global climate changes in the last 200 thousand years 

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Winners of the Rapaport Prize for Science: In the photo from right to left: the winner Prof. Michal Schwartz, Weizmann Institute of Science, Dr. Verd Drenger, Ruth Rapaport, Prof. Michael Sela and the winner Dr. Gad Asher, Weizmann Institute. Photo: Tomer Poltin

The winners of the Rapaport Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research have been announced

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Saturn's moon Enceladus. At the bottom of the picture is its south pole with the tiger stripes from which the water jets come out, arising from an ocean of liquid water hiding under an outer layer of ice. The new study indicates that this ice layer is much thinner than previously thought in the South Pole region, which could greatly aid a future research mission to the Moon. Source: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.

Enceladus' sub-ice ocean may be very close to the surface

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Using computer vision for autonomous driving. From the Mobileye website

Israel has become a powerhouse in the field of vehicle development, despite the fact that there is not a single car manufacturer here

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The space station during the photographic mission. Photo: ESA/NASA.

Space disco

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Diagram 2 - Demonstration of the technology developed at the Technion: the oxygen and hydrogen are created and stored in completely separate cells. According to Abigail, it is possible to replace one of the electrodes (anode) with a light-sensitive electrode (photo-anode), so that the conversion of water and solar energy into hydrogen fuel will be carried out directly, that is, in one process. Source: Courtesy of the Technion.

finance as per your request

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Improvements in car reliability. FROM PIXABAY.COM

"Technology will make it possible to reduce traffic accidents by ninety percent"

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The bride of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Prof. Ada Yonat in a video produced by the Ministry of Science on the occasion of Science Day 2017. Screenshot from YouTube

Today is Science Day; Novelists and important young scientists try to convince the young to study science

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Among the developments made in the Biotechnology and Food Engineering Laboratory at the Technion are stickers for mouth ulcers, which were developed inspired by the adhesive ability of geckos. Photo: Brocken Inaglory, Wikimedia.

Imitation of principles from nature in the development of synthetic materials

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Scientists from the University of California at Los Angeles - UCLA discovered that dendrites (shown here in green) are not just passive conduits for electrical currents between nerve cells. Photo: Shelley Halpain / UC San Diego

The brain is 10 times more active than previously thought

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Saturn's moon Pan. Photo. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

Pan - Saturn's unusual month

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An eight-meter-high statue of Ramses II was discovered in Cairo * Concern about antiquities looting in Egypt

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The four freedoms of education

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