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January 2019

Chemical laboratory. Photo: shutterstock

The number of recipients of a master's degree in a research track has remained relatively stable over the past decade - approximately 3,800 per year

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Recent visualization of the first Israeli spacecraft courtesy of spaceil.

The first Israeli spacecraft "Bereshit" is being fueled for the launch at Cape Canaveral

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the periodic table. Illustration: shutterstock

2019 is the International Year of the Periodic Table

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The signing ceremony, from right to left, Maurice Kahn, President of SpaceIL, Avi Blasberger, Head of the Israel Space Agency, Ofer Doron, Director of the Space Plant at Israel Aerospace Industries, Dr. Marco Fucus, CEO of OHB, Prof. Pascal Ehrenhofn, Chairman of the German Space Agency, Johann Dietrich Warner head of the European Space Agency. Photo by Alex Polo.

The Aerospace Industry will develop and build a lunar lander based on SpaceIL's engineering know-how

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Encoded facial recognition image. Photo: IBM

IBM makes available to the research community one million encoded facial images to improve facial recognition systems

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Alon Shikar (right) and Jackie Faye, two of the astronauts who spent four days in an analog Mars simulator in the Mitzpe Ramon area. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

An international Mars simulation will take place in Israel

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nuclear waste. Illustration: shutterstock

A substance is developed to clean water from nuclear waste products

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Former astronaut Scott Kelly who spent almost a year in space continuously at the opening event of Israel Space Week 2019. Photo by Gilad Kvalertsik

7% of the genetic expressions in Scott Kelly's DNA changed after a year in space

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MRI scan. Source: pixabay.com.

A new algorithm based on deep learning almost eliminates the need for gadolinium in MRI scans

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Large mammals in the African savanna, in danger of extinction. Photo: shutterstock

No one is too small to make a difference in the environment

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Eran Riffle demonstrates Valance's technology at the CES exhibition. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Our car is blue and white - the Israeli developments in the automotive field at CES

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Illustration of a primary Cornell spot (left) attached to an antibody fragment (center) while binding to the HER2 cancer cell receptor (right). The dot and the antibody attached to it together are less than 8 nanometers in diameter, the size threshold for removal from the body by the kidneys.

An effective weapon to fight cancer - antibodies

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The structure of the substance glycolonitrile and the celestial gram in which it was found [Courtesy: Víctor M. Rivilla & Ben Mills & Herschel-SPIRE 500 microns]

A building block of life has been located in the star formation region of space

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face recognition. Illustration - shutterstock

Now it's scientific - we recognize celebrities faster

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The flying taxi is on its way to the nearest Uber service to your home

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Arabidopsis_thaliana From Wikipedia

The eyes of the plants

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cry. Illustration: shutterstock

Humans do not know how to distinguish between screams of joy and screams of terror

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The eye and the optic nerves in the cerebral cortex. Illustration: shutterstock

Man is allowed: Weizmann Institute scientists have found what is special about the human brain

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eosinophils. Photo: Prof. Ariel Munitz, Tel Aviv University

A new method for treating colon cancer by strengthening the immune system

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The Earth and the Moon are being bombarded by asteroids at an increased rate. Illustration: shutterstock

The Earth and Moon have had many more asteroid impacts since the age of the dinosaurs

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says Noam Zakai, leader of IBM's quantum computing activities in Europe with IBM's first quantum computer in the background, at the company's booth at the CES 2019 exhibition. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

We are close to finishing the development of a 50 qubit quantum computer chip

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Life in 2030 according to Dassault Systèmes. Screenshot from the video on the company's YouTube channel.

In 2030 we will travel in hyperloops and everyone will have a general home robot

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A fisherman catches sockeye salmon. Photo: from PIXABAY.COM

The researchers from Haifa who found the Scandinavian salmon from 5,600 years ago

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immune system. Illustration: shutterstock

The European Union and Canada have awarded 8.65 million euros to an Israeli-led project to promote the sharing of genomic information related to the immune system

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Dr. Ido Yaffe, Dr. Yaniv Lubling and Dr. Henji Lee. Fatigue is a big face for her. Photo: Weizmann Institute spokeswoman

Not so lazy

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