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December 2017

Toyota's right-hand fuel cell presented at its exhibition in New York in 2014. Photo: Joseph Brent.

Fast and sensitive detector for hydrogen detection

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The successful landing of the New Shepard launcher yesterday (December 12) at the Blue Origin launch site in West Texas. Source: Blue Origin.

Blue Origin is taking another step towards tourist flights into space

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Illustration: pixabay.

Artificial intelligence has produced more successful offspring than human-made programs

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The way the brain deals with information that is not synchronized in time

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot, as seen by JunoCam on July 10, 2017. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Justin Cowart.

Juno reveals the depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

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Conference of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), April 2017. Photo: Matthias Silveri, IIASA.

Israel was accepted to an international research institute by a large majority

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"Caveman's disease" got its exotic name because the fungus that causes it is found in the feces of bats and other birds, and cavemen are at high risk of contracting it. Illustration: pixabay.

The connection between Bob Dylan, bats and a new infectious disease in Israel

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Astronaut Gene Cernan on the lunar surface, next to an American flag sticking out of the lunar rover, December 2017. The ceremony to announce the American return to the moon took place yesterday, December 11, the day that marked the 45th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 17 on the lunar surface, the last manned mission in the Apollo program . Source: NASA / Harrison H. Schmitt.

Trump ordered NASA to return American astronauts to the moon

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Illustration: pixabay.

Life expectancy in Israel in 2016: 80.7 years for men and 84.2 for women

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Albert Einstein statue near the Israel Academy of Sciences building. Photo: Jpbowen, Wikimedia.

Six senior scientists will join the Israel Academy of Sciences

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Illustration illustrating the exit of meteors from the direction of a group of twins. From a NASA YouTube video

The Geminid shower will peak on the night between Wednesday and Thursday

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Illustration: pixabay.

Are we all racist deep down?

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The system was designed according to the biomimicry methodology. In fact every functional aspect of the system was designed inspired by another organism. For example, the water storage component of the system was developed inspired by plants living in dry habitats, such as drought-resistant succulents, such as the crystalline ice plant seen in the photo. Photography: Leo-setä.

A biomimetic system for harvesting, storing, and distributing water

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medicine. From pixabay.com

Artificial intelligence will not replace the doctor but will complement him with the picture of reality

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The sea urchin Ophiocoma wendtii. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson.

Learning from the heat of the sea: production of forged materials underwater

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Nobel Prize Coin for Chemistry. Source: Adam Baker.

Israelis, Jews and winning international awards

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Autonomous driving, the military version

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JD.com delivery drone. Source: JD.com.

A large Chinese company will set up two hundred drone stations in villages

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A nanocapsule of nucleic acids and peptides that releases the medicine inside in response to defined enzymes. (1) in the first step the peptide undergoes cross-linking on the surface of the nanoparticle; (2) In the next step, a defined enzyme recognizes the peptide cross-linking group, (3) and in the last step, the enzyme's release leads to the release of the drug or the nucleic acids that were locked inside the capsule. Courtesy: Joseph Luciani/UConn.

An innovative system for delivering drugs in the body

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Photo: Lord Jim.

Research: Billboards with little text are more dangerous than busy ones

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Today, public transportation in Israel is not adapted to the needs of users. Illustration: pixabay.

The smart bus is on its way to you

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Prof. Ohad Ben Shahar (left) and his doctoral student Boaz Arad. Photo: Danny Machlis, Ben-Gurion University.

Software that makes it possible to turn any normal camera into a hyperspectral one

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Plasmodium parasite that causes malaria. Source: Ute Frevert / Margaret Shear / Wikimedia Commons.

The trick of the malaria parasite

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Illustration: pixabay.

Chili pepper for elephant protection

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Imaging of the quasar J1342+0928, the active galactic halo that contains at its center a supermassive black hole, with a mass 800 million times that of our Sun, that is gobbling up a lot of material from a hot disk surrounding it. Source: Robin Dienel/Carnegie Institution for Science.

The most distant supermassive black hole to date has been discovered

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