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September 2017

Launch of the US Air Force X-37B space plane using SpaceX's Falcon 9 launcher, September 7, 2017. Screenshot from a SpaceX video

The secret X-37B space plane was launched on a SPACEX rocket shortly before Hurricane Irma hit Florida

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Black hole simulation. Quantum entanglement and black holes, two seemingly unrelated phenomena, may lead physicists to the long awaited unification: the unification of general relativity and quantum mechanics. Image: Ute Kraus / Wikimedia.

Closer to the secrets of the universe

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There is life in sinkholes

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Simulation of the Curiosity rover firing a laser beam at a rock on Mars. The laser vaporizes part of the rock, and the rover examines the radiation spectrum of the resulting plasma, in order to determine the chemical composition of the rock. Source: NASA / JPL.

For the first time, boron was found on Mars, a discovery that strengthens the possibility that life existed on it in the past

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Source: Haifa University.

An unusual pottery testifies to an ancient agricultural cult in the Jordan Valley

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An illustration of a bio-bag (left) filled with bacteria decorated with light-absorbing nanocrystals made of cadmium sulfide (center) that convert light, water, and carbon dioxide into useful chemicals (right) [Courtesy: Kelsey K. Sakimoto]

A bacterium that grows solar panels on itself

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The fibers look like Legos in an electron microscope. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Self-assembling proteins

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A display of drones at the CES 2016 exhibition held in January 2016 in Las Vegas Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The air is the new internet

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The research revealed unusually rich and varied sponge gardens for the Israeli coast. Photo: Part of a study in Prof. Micha Ilan's laboratory at Tel Aviv University.

The secret of the sponge gardens

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Ultraviolet and infrared shielding of the moon Titan, with which it is possible to penetrate through the atmosphere of the moon, which hides the surface when viewed in the visible light range. Artificial color image, taken by Cassini in 2004. Source: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.

Titan - new findings - part two

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Using computer vision for autonomous driving. From the Mobileye website

A 25% increase in patent applications by knowledge commercialization companies in universities

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Jim Bridenstine. Source: United States Congress.

Who is Jim Bridenstine, Trump's nominee for the next NASA administrator?

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US President Donald Trump downplays the importance of scientific findings regarding global warming in the event of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. Screenshot from YOUTUBE

How industry fights science

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Imaged above by Cassini in 2011. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.

Titan - new findings - part one

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Sarah Ngosa at the annual Tech Women 2017 student conference that encourages outstanding female students to choose science and technology studies. Source: Courtesy of the Technion.

To see far, to see clearly

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Cross section of the large subunit of the bacterial ribosome. In yellow - the exit tunnel of the proteins from the ribosome. In red - the binding pocket of erythromycin at the entrance to the tunnel. Bottom right (marked in light blue) – the ribosomal protein L22. In structural and chemical terms, the protein is distant from the binding pocket of the antibiotic. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Researchers have discovered how a mutation in a ribosomal protein helps bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics

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She took a deep breath. Helps complete the prehistoric puzzle. Photo: Kentish Plumber, Flickr.

What did Rosh Ein look like in the days of ancient man?

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