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February 2018

The Tesla Roadster, and the astronaut doll, against the background of the Earth. No this is not a joke. Source: SpaceX.

SpaceX launched a car into deep space on the world's most powerful launcher

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Illustration: O. Usher (UCL MAPS).

An Israeli-international team is developing a quantum computer funded by the QuantERA Foundation

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The heavy Falcon on the launch pad, on the eve of the maiden flight. Source: SpaceX.

Today: the maiden flight of the heavy Falcon; Musk: "50% chance of success"

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A comet hit the earth. Illustration: shutterstock

About 12.8 years ago, a comet fragment caused 10% of the Earth's surface to burn

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Illustration: pixabay.

This is how the drones plant

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'Peacock Jumper'. Source: Jurgen Otto.

Colorful jump

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The simulation of the Orion spacecraft, with which NASA intends to send astronauts to "deep space" - in the first stage to orbit around the moon, and perhaps in the future even to Mars. Source: NASA.

Open the gate to deep space

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Cancer cells. Illustration: NIH (Yu (Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC), USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Pancreatic Desmoplasia).

A new approach will allow personalized medicine for countless types of diseases

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Shlomo Gerdman, co-chairman of the 2018 iNNOVEX conference. PR photo.

Gil Schweide and Avigdor Vilanz among the winners of the innovation award at iNNOVEX2018:

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From right to left - Italy's Deputy Ambassador to Israel, Director of the Italian Space Agency Prof. Roberto Battiston, Director General of the Ministry of Science Peretz Vezan, and Director of the Israel Space Agency Avi Blasberger at the signing ceremony for the collaboration between the Italian and Israeli space agencies and Space Pharma, February 2018. Photo: Yossi Yamin

The Italian Space Agency will participate in the financing of Space Pharma's next satellite

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The Great Barrier Reef in Australia. is in danger of bleaching. Photo: yanguang lan.

Whitens and disappears

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From right to left: Prof. Tobin Marks and Prof. Karla Schatz. Photo: Technion spokespeople

2017 Harvey Award winners: Prof. Tobin Marks and Prof. Karla Schatz

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It seems that the USA is plunging into an era of isolation and isolation. The White House wants to cancel international agreements, including the Paris Agreement to deal with climate change, and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and is using presidential orders to stop or slow down the entry of refugees and the immigrants to the USA. Photo: Michael Vadon.

Science without walls

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The Space Week poster as presented on the gala evening for its opening at the Hilton Hotel in Tel Aviv. Photo: Tal Inbar

Director General of the Ministry of Science Peretz Vezan: the photographs of the Venus satellite will allow to locate and promote a better use of natural resources

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Venice. Sea level rise is happening here and now and at a faster rate than we previously thought. Photo: Elisha Terada.

The project that will save Venice (or drown it in debt)

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Cytotoxic T white blood cells (in red) attack a cancer cell. Illustration: Elena Serda, Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.

A new treatment eliminates cancerous tumors of various types throughout the body

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The optical system in the laboratory - a collaboration between the Technion and CREOL. Source: Technion spokesmen.

Semiconductor lasers: the next generation

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algae. It still needs to be proven that platinum protects the human skin even outside the sterile laboratory. Photograph: Gugulethu Mhlanga.

Is the sunscreen of the future hiding in algae?

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Laboratory flasks containing thousands of white blood cells from a patient who developed "immune tolerance" to the donor after a bone marrow transplant. The cells show no signs of rejection of the donor cells (three columns on the left), but secrete chemicals that indicate rejection (indicated in red) when exposed to the cells of a third person (three columns on the right). Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Education for tolerance

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The mud crab. Source: Anirnoy, Wikimedia Commons.

On crustaceans in the dark and sensing mechanism

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New research will monitor infections from space

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The Sahel region, bordering the Sahara. The forest is greater than the sum of its trees. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Planting forests in Africa and Australia may cool the planet

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An Israeli gazelle (Gazella gazella gazella) in the Lachish region. Source: Minozig, Wikimedia Commons.

Who has the right to name a zoological species?

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