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October 2, 2020

Solutions for the Corona epidemic. Illustration: Image by Miguel Á. Padriñán from Pixabay

Five seriously ill corona patients who received an experimental drug at Hadassah have recovered

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Enalivex reports positive results in a clinical trial of Allocetra for the treatment of corona patients in severe/critical condition
The dynamic naphthols create structural complexity, and enable the development of more diverse ecosystems. Photo: kees streefkerk – unsplash

Rivers reroute

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Changes in the route of rivers will become more and more common in the coming years, following the rise in sea level caused by global climate change. This process may cause more flooding along the rivers, even in areas that did not suffer from them in the past
A deadly mantis in a horror movie. An insect of this size would have suffocated in the absence of a mechanism for transporting oxygen. Reynold Brown, Wikimedia

Things people know: why are insects small?

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Over a million species of insects breathe through cilia, so there is a limit to their growth capacity.
A scanning tunneling microscope image of a narrowband metallic graphene nanoribbon. The white spots refer to the orbitals occupied by a single electron that are carefully organized to produce long-range conductive states. The width of this strip is only 1.6 nanometers. [Courtesy: Daniel Rizzo of UC Berkeley]

Metallic carbon electric circuits for the development of faster and more efficient transistors

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Transistors based on carbon and not on silicon will be able to accelerate the speed of computing and reduce the energy consumption of devices such as computers, mobile phones and the like
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