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June 2017

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Hidden side effects: Medical studies often omit negative results

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Urban landscape with trees. Better to focus on lower vegetation. Photo: Vladimir Kudinov.

The generous discourse

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Mitvan fabrics, made of wool and decorated with red and blue stripes. Photo: Clara Amit, courtesy of the Antiquities Authority.

Evidence of the use of dyeing plants in textiles from the days of Kings David and Solomon

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Simulation of a manned base on Mars. Source: NASA.

Who will build a house on Mars?

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Foraminifera. Source: Courtesy of Ben Gurion University.

Animals that create green skeletons are able to grow in extreme temperatures

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Researchers in the field of robotics have begun teaching machines with raw abilities in language understanding and artificial intelligence to discern under what circumstances they should say "no" to humans. Image: pixabay.

Why robots need to learn to say "no" to us

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A simulation of a supermassive black hole swallowing gas and matter into it. Imaging: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

The disappearing black holes

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Photo: Technion spokespeople.

Researchers from the Technion have developed a system that allows rapid personalization of the antibiotic medication for the patient

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Whether you put in hours at the gym or stare at the TV for the same hours, your total calorie intake is the same. Illustration: pixabay.

The physical activity paradox

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In the last two years, a new pest has appeared in Israel that threatens to harm eucalyptus trees: the eucalyptus bug. Photo: Yehudit Garinkol via the PikiWiki - Israel free image collection project.

The Australian Stinger

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The first launch in the series of close launches carried out by SpaceX, which was held on Friday. Source: SpaceX.

SpaceX launched two rockets in three days

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Imaging of a cancer cell. Source: Trail-in Pharma.

A new service for cancer patients will connect them with researchers and current research

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Membrane for water purification. High economic viability. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Recycle membrane

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Building an entire brain in a lab dish is impossible, but scientists do build cellular tissue that closely resembles the developing embryonic brain. Image: pixabay.com.

build a brain in the lab

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Source: DARPA.

DARPA finances the development of a new type of processor - a graph analysis processor

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"Machines are becoming smarter, and more and more know how to do jobs that are now done by humans. Therefore, the question arises: what about us, the members of the human race?". Illustration: pixabay.

"The robots not only take professions but allow easier entry into new technological professions"

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Decreased mitochondrial calcium uptake in cells where the MTCH2 gene has been neutralized. The photo on the left shows a nerve cell that has not been genetically modified. The photo on the right shows a transgenic nerve cell (without MTCH2). Fluorescent sensors were inserted into the cells in order to illuminate the absorption of calcium in the mitochondria, and calcium was added to the growth medium of the cells. As you can see, the sensors illuminate significantly less in the engineered cell (the color scale ranges from blue, indicating low calcium absorption, to yellow, indicating high calcium absorption), which indicates impaired calcium absorption in the mitochondria. Source: from the article.

calcium escape from the brain

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Diagram showing the new set of findings. The discoveries mark a possible new target for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

The cleaning cells of the brain

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Along with the establishment of the fishing industry, a fish canning craft/industry developed in ancient Israel. Illustration: Lea von Littrow, c. 1914.

A Jew likes fish? - Chapter four - Canned fish

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Robots in a pill: researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have built a prototype of a robot capable of performing simple procedures inside the stomach without any incisions at all and without the need to connect to external equipment: the patient simply swallows the robot. Source: Melanie Gonick/MIT.

More ideas that will change the world: from robots in a pill to quantum communication satellites

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Comparison of sizes of different types of stars. From left to right: a red dwarf, with a mass of about 0.1 that of the Sun; "yellow dwarf", like our sun; A "blue dwarf" of about 8 solar masses; and the giant star R136a1, which has about 300 solar masses. Source: ESO/M. Kornmesser.

Brighter than the sun, hotter than the summer in Israel

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Research: The Israeli labor market is moving from a traditional economy to a modern information technology and service economy

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Researchers demonstrate a bubble produced from light and used to propel micro-particles. Panel (a) shows the circular particle, with a diameter of 42 μm, and the laser beam, with a size of 405 nm, as the dark and light circles, respectively. In panel (b), 40 milliseconds later, the microcircle has traveled ten times its distance. Source: Ben Gurion University.

Researchers have developed a technique to propel microparticles using light and tiny bubbles

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Simulation of the feathered dinosaur Zhenyuanlong. Image: Emily Willoughby/Wikimedia.

How dinosaurs became birds

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waves in the cell membrane. Source: From the study - Fronts and waves of actin polymerization in a bistability-based mechanism of circular dorsal ruffles.

Researchers shed new light on the movement of waves across cell membranes, which may affect cancer research and treatment

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