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אפריל 2017

Mohammed Bazaid Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander (left center) and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of Dubai, at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Center Space Center in Dubai. Photo courtesy of the Dubai Ministry of Communications

The UAE launched a national space program; Send astronauts to the International Space Station

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Technion campus. Source: Technion / Israel Institute of Technology, Wikimedia.

The Technion was ranked in the top ten of the "Nobel Universities" in the sciences

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Launch of an Atlas 5 rocket carrying Orbital's Cygnus supply spacecraft to the International Space Station. Among other things, its payload contains the Israeli student satellite Dokifat 2

The children overcame all the obstacles that were on the way in the development of the Dokifat 2 satellite

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Alma Friedan, an 2th grade student at the School of Engineering in Herzliya and a member of the Dokifat XNUMX project at the Science Center in Herzliya. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"We built a training system in which the graduates train the young people entering the Dokifat 2 project"

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The moment of the launch of the Atlas 5 launcher and inside it a supply spacecraft to the International Space Station, including the Israeli student satellite Dokifat 2, 18/4/17. NASA photo

The Israeli student satellite Dokifat 2 was successfully launched into space today

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Didi, a distant object in the solar system with an estimated diameter of 635 km and is 3 times more distant than Pluto. Image: ALMA

Meet Didi, a distant and dim planetary body in our solar system

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Africa. FROM PIXABAY.COM

The wildlife people

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Live (left) and fossilized ginkgo leaf (right). The density of piones in such leaves provides an approximation of the atmospheric CO2 concentration in the past. Photo: Dana Royer, courtesy of the University of Southampton.

Climate warming will bring the Earth to an unprecedented 420 million year high

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The laboratory staff, from the right: laboratory engineer Yevgeni Linder, Mia Barzilai (doctoral student), Assaf Hershkovitz (master's degree), Itamar Holzman (toward a master's degree), Alon Avidor (bachelor's degree), Dr. Cecil Shagia (senior scientist) and Dr. Yachin Hebrew. Source: Technion spokesmen.

Collective Memory

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New evidence brings about a paradigm shift in the field of linguistics. Illustration: pixabay.

Evidence disproves Chomsky's theory of language learning

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Imaging of the Cassini spacecraft passing through the water jets of the moon Enceladus. The close flyby she made through the jets in 2015 allowed her to detect molecular hydrogen in the water jets and strengthen the possibility that the environment in the sub-glacial ocean from which the jets emanate supports the existence of life. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

NASA reveals new discoveries from the oceanic worlds of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn

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Elephants leave in their wake habitats for dozens of other creatures. Photo: Yathin S Krishnappa / Wikimedia.

Elephant tracks are bustling with life

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A bloom that can also be detected from space. In the upper photograph: the concentration of chlorophyll on the surface of the sea as photographed by a NASA satellite in October 2007. The lower photograph - a close-up of the area defined in the upper photograph. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

A blooming desert in the middle of the sea

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In the back, the competitors from right to left: Yordan Modai (17, 18, Alon High School), Shira Ben Dor (17, 16, the high school next to the university), Dana Zeidman (XNUMX, XNUMX, Atid Ladem Lod), Maya Noh (XNUMX, XNUMX, Leo Beck). Front: bottom right - Maria Greenglaz, deputy head of the delegation; Bottom left - Dan Carmon, head of the delegation. Seidman also holds the mascot of the delegation - Minkowski the mink (a winter doll). Photo: Tel Aviv University for Youth

Three silver medals for Israel in the Mathematics Olympiad for girls

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Walter. Source: Wikimedia.

You can't study science and technology without Walter

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Boston Dynamics' new robot. Source: Boston Dynamics.

New robot "inducing nightmares"

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In the drawing, a supernova remnant is shown, and the "ears" are marked with an annular line. From Dubner et al. 2013

Why do many supernovae look like Mickey Mouse?

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Mezuzah in the United States. Since when was the obligation to determine the mezuzah in the houses of Israel in the ancient era, since archeology does not support this at all. Perhaps the answer to this will be found in a later era, only from the eighth century AD during the Genius period, when evidence of mezuzah card writing was found. It seems that the matter arose somewhere after the destruction of the Second Temple, when the leaders from the time of Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai onward sought various factors for the public's sense of security in Judea, and perhaps sought to accustom the Jewish public to the situation of not having a temple. Photo: retardstrength.net / Wikimedia.

Who moved the mezuzah and when did it become holy?

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Astronomical events in ancient writings. Illustration: Kyoto University

Evidence of strong solar storms in documents and poems from Japan and China

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Loud and boisterous

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Human nerve cells are injected into a primary pig embryo. Source: Jun Wu et al.

grow human organs in the bodies of animals

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Photo: Vincent van Zalinge.

How do mammals and birds maintain their body temperature?

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Following the implementation of recommendations by the Technion experts, there has been a dramatic reduction in the total volume of fuel leaks in Israel in the last 16 years, mainly in leaks from gas stations. Photo: Photo by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas.

The fuel guard

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A new study shows that brief and incidental exposure to a stimulus that creates a sensory sensation or evokes associations related to cold (such as a picture of a winter landscape) can improve performance in a cognitive control task. Source: pixabay.

Can a cold temperature or a winter image affect cognitive control?

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Fusion of images by a neural network combining content (the researchers' original image) and style (taken from a drawing of sweets). According to Prof. Elad, "the network is looking for a result that will be faithful to these two sources". Source: Technion spokesmen.

open the box

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