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May 2018

Deep in the ground: the detector is in a tunnel under Mount Gran Sasso in Italy. Photo courtesy of the Weizmann Institute

"Xenon 1 ton": setting a new limit for dark matter

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Coganta is building a cloud-based autonomous car testing simulator system in partnership with NVIDIA and Microsoft. Illustration: Shay Rothman. Photo from the company website.

The artificial intelligence that will allow the developers of autonomous cars to try them inside a computer

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the conference of science ministers from around the world held in Jerusalem. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Israel will invest in a quantum computing system for security issues

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Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis at the conference of science ministers from around the world that took place in Jerusalem. Photo by Sharon Amit

Science Minister Akunis: Israeli technology is changing the world, changing Africa, Asia and Latin America

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machine learning. Illustration: shutterstock

"We need to take the computer and empower the person, not replace him."

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Biomass in the world: who has more? Infographic: Yael Shinker, Weizmann Institute Magazine

The Census of Life on Earth: The Trees Still Rule

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Flying dinosaurs. Illustration: shutterstock

The asteroid wiped out almost all the birds along with the dinosaurs

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This image shows the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5 + 2223 taken by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The image in the magnifying square is the distant galaxy MACS1149-JD1, as seen 13.3 billion years ago and recently observed by Alma. The oxygen concentration discovered by 'Alma' is depicted in red. Photo: ESO

Evidence of stars formed only 250 million s after the big bang

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I will produce. Illustration from PIXABAY.COM

Gene therapy may cure Alzheimer's

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A diver uses an underwater polarizing camera with a fisheye lens, in a configuration similar to how the mantis shark collects sensitivity data. Photo: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Underwater GPS was developed inspired by the vision capabilities of the Mantis mantis  

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Description of voice recognition process using artificial intelligence. Illustration: shutterstock

The robot that will make appointments over the phone and you won't be able to tell the difference between it and a person

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The president of Ben Gurion University, Prof. Rivka Karmi, and the CEO of Microsoft Research and Development in Israel Asaf Rapaport at the SilicoNegevBGU event. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"Israel will lose its status as a high-tech power if we do not work to integrate more women into the industry"

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CT scan demonstrating the chest of a mesothelioma patient. From Wikipedia

Researchers have found a way to delay the development of mesothelioma cancer

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Stephen Hawking at the Science Museum in Jerusalem, December 2006. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

A new discovery paves the way for the development of a treatment for the degenerative disease ALS

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Soft tissue fossils of a predator from the Cambrian era, belonging to the arthropod family. Top left: A bump on the front of the modified creature shows a resemblance to modern arthropods. Bottom right: A full-body specimen of the fossil shows one pair of forelimbs (indicated by white arrows) and a mouth containing teeth (indicated by a black arrow) on the head. Photography: A. Daly, University of Oxford

A new study of fossils made it possible to be more precise in the date of the appearance of the first animals before 540 m.

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Flash floods are characterized by short periods of heavy rain. In areas where the soil does not allow percolation. Photo: ilan molcho, Flickr

The reason why the storms are stronger

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These six images represent the variety of star-forming regions in nearby galaxies. The galaxies are part of the Hubble Space Telescope's Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS). This is the largest and most comprehensive survey of ultraviolet (UV) light observations of star-forming galaxies in the near Universe. the neighbor The six images include two dwarf galaxies (UGC 5340 and UGCA 281) and four large spiral galaxies (NGC 3368, NGC 3627, NGC 6744 and NGC 4258). The images are a mixture of ultraviolet and visible light from Hubble's Wide Field Camera No. 3 and its Advanced Survey Camera. CREDIT: NASA/ESA/LEGUS TEAM

Astronomers have prepared the most comprehensive survey of nearby galaxies in the ultraviolet field with the help of Hubble

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Each liposome (light blue bubble) was loaded with particles of iron and magnesium. The liposomes that were sprayed on the leaves penetrated them, dispersed in all parts of the plant and unloaded the cargo inside the cells.

Nanotechnology for the service of a significant improvement in the yield of agricultural crops

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An alpine forest damaged by soil erosion. Photo: shutterstock

The land crisis is no less important than the climate crisis

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From ground-based telescopes, the so-called "ant nebula" (Menzel 3, or Mz 3) resembles the head and thorax of a garden-variety ant. This dramatic NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, showing 10 times more detail, reveals the "ant's" body as a pair of fiery lobes protruding from a dying, Sun-like star. The Hubble images directly challenge old ideas about the last stages in the lives of stars. By observing Sun-like stars as they approach their deaths, the Hubble Heritage image of Mz 3 - along with pictures of other planetary nebulae - shows that our Sun's fate will probably be more interesting, complex, and striking than astronomers imagined just a few years ago.

The celestial ant that shoots laser bursts

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CorNeat Vision Company, computer imaging courtesy of virtual point

PixCell Medical and CorNeat Vision winners of the innovative start-up competition in life sciences

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The Mars copter, a small autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with NASA's Mars 2020 rover, now scheduled for launch in July 2020, to demonstrate the viability and potential of heavier-than-air vehicles on the Red Planet. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars to demonstrate the ability to fly in a thin atmosphere

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The fractures in the dome of the skull. Photo: Clara Amit, Antiquities Authority

Researchers believe: "We discovered the earliest evidence of blood feud"

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In the photo: the curse plate for one of its opening. In red are marked the words "Mare" (horse or mare) as well as "Bent", "Benita") the Blue faction). Photo: Paula Ertel-Isbrand courtesy of Alexander Holman

A Jewish curse tablet from the XNUMXth century AD that was intended to fail the team competing in horse races has been deciphered

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Documentation of a micrometeoroid impact on one of the cupola module windows of the International Space Station. The Dragon spacecraft that was launched today will bring to the station a device that will monitor one of the impacts of space debris particles on the station to learn how to better protect the lives of astronauts. Source: NASA.

The satellite is in the service of collecting space debris for NASA

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