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July 2018

Dryden (left) and Glennan (second from right) are sworn in as President Eisenhower looks on (second from left). NASA photo: A

NASA celebrates 60 years

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The desalination plant in Palmahim. Photo: Michael Jacobson - from Wikipedia

An economical method for water desalination

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the civil war in Syria. Illustration: shutterstock

The UN is dealing with the increase in violence as a result of global warming

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Hot springs within the ocean, 4.2 billion year old bacteria were discovered in these environments. From Wikipedia

The first historical model for the formation of life received a significant boost

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The scientists took advantage of the fact that chirality affects an electron property called "spin", which is characterized by two states - "spin up" and "spin down" - similar to the spinning of a spinning top clockwise or counterclockwise. Illustration: Prof. Ron Naaman, Weizmann Institute

Molecular spin in the laboratory

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Comparison between modern man and Homo erectus. Illustration: shutterstock

Humans did not develop from one source, but survived from a variety of populations that intermingled

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Illustration of the dual roles of caspase-3 - cell death and cell division - on the cover of Molecular Cell, courtesy of the journal

Researchers have uncovered the complex role of the caspase-3 protein in cancer * a way to a new therapeutic approach

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Cross section of a human lung infected with cancer. The white block above is his tape and the black areas indicate that the original owner of the lung smoked. From Wikimedia

Triple attack: A combination of three drugs may prevent the recurrence of lung cancer

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Dark energy is the name given by scientists to the phenomenon that causes acceleration in the expansion of the universe. There are three different hypotheses about the nature of dark energy: it may be a constant energy that arises from empty space itself (the hypothesis of the cosmological constant), or it may be a variable energy that originates from a fundamental field found in all of space. But it is also possible that dark energy does not exist at all and that the reason for the acceleration of the universe's expansion is that gravity behaves in a different way than our theories say when it comes to ranges on a cosmic scale. Illustration: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Wikimedia.

The symmetron - the mysteries of dark energy

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Blood moon during the lunar eclipse 28/10/15 as seen from the central region of Israel. Photography: Yossi Oz.

A combination of three astronomical conditions made the lunar eclipse long

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A schematic description of the process steps in the new production method and a picture of the device produced by this method. Illustration, the laboratory of Prof. Avner Rothschild, the Technion

Light and matter: enhanced interaction

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A herd of cows in the dry land of Burkina Faso. From Wikipedia

Warming cows

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For the first time, a model was published that explains supersonic earthquakes

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Spinal injury. Illustration: shutterstock

A new treatment may prevent or reduce disability in spinal cord injuries

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A futuristic water pipeline serving human settlement on Mars. Illustration: shutterstock

A vast reservoir of liquid water has been discovered beneath the surface of Mars

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For the first time, a molecule was simulated using a quantum computer         

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Sumit Ayalon. Photo: Dr. David Darom.

A new study found a close relationship between rare cave crabs in Israel and Italy

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A blazar fires a jet of cosmic rays and neutrinos towards Earth and is absorbed by the IceCube facility at the South Pole. Figure IceCube/NASA

A collaboration between the neutrino detector and a space telescope led to the identification of a source producing cosmic rays for the first time

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The condensate from the rig is planned to be piped through an underwater pipeline that is currently located at Dor Beach to the coast where it will mix in a ratio of up to 3 percent (which will dramatically reduce its volatility) with the crude oil that is flowed through the Katsa pipeline to the refineries. Photo: By Yitzhak Marmelstein CC BY-SA 4.0

Gas, sea and smoke changes: the fight for the Leviathan rig

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The experimental system: the tiny ball at the end of the rod rotates rapidly near the light source - the horizontal fiber visible in the background. Light coming from the right side of the fiber is transmitted, while light coming from the left is blocked. Below: the motor that rotates the ball.

A new optical isolator transmits light entering it from one direction and blocks light entering from the opposite direction

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Reciting a lament at the Western Wall plaza, on the evening of Tisha B'av 2004 (XNUMX); it can be seen that the people are sitting on the ground, and avoid sitting on elevated chairs - as part of the mourning customs. Photo: User Idobi from Wikipedia

The failed attempt of Rabbi Yehuda the Hanasi to cancel the fast of the XNUMXth of Av

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The arrow of time works differently in the quantum world

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Desalination plant in Hadera. Photo: IDE Technologies, Wikipedia

How using solar collectors will also save water

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Microscope image of yeast cells. Mitochondrial organelles (indicated in red) are attached to peroxisomes (in light blue) by tiny "ribbons" (in green). Illustration: Weizmann Institute

No organ is an island

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An array of optical skyrmions. The electric field in each cell in the array is not uniform in its direction but points in every possible direction in space. Illustration: The Technion

Nanometric "hedgehogs of light" that pave the way for new applications in information processing, transmission and storage

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