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August 3, 2022

Pictures from the coral reef in the Gulf of Eilat. Photo: Dror Tsurel Ministry of Environmental Protection

The collapse of the coral reef in Eilat worsened because of the storm in 2020; Extinction of marine species and increase in sea temperature

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Alarming findings regarding the future of the Gulf of Eilat: the coral reef in the Gulf of Eilat is having difficulty recovering from the damage of the 2020 winter storm, which hit the bay and caused the coral colonies in the reef to break and be covered with sand; continued decrease in the percentage of coral cover; Gulf water temperature continues to rise; The Minister of Environmental Protection: "The question marks regarding the future of the Gulf of Eilat require us to take zero risks"
Artist's impression of ESA's Envision mission to Venus. Credit: Credit: ESA/VR2Planets/Damia Bouic

The Envision mission will not have much fuel, so it is going to perform an atmospheric braking on Venus

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The project's research director on behalf of the European Space Agency: "The flight on Ariane 6 will not allow all the extra propellant that would be necessary to lower the orbit. Instead we will slow ourselves down by making repeated passes through the upper atmosphere of Venus, lowering to 130 km from the face of the planet"
Prof. Nitzan Censor. Photo: Tel Aviv University spokesperson

Learning through "memory flashes" instead of long and tedious repetition will help people with autism

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A new learning method may lead to a significant improvement in visual perception abilities * According to the researchers, improving the perception ability of people with autism is a difficult challenge, requiring the patients to undergo lengthy and tedious training alongside the difficulty characteristic of autism to generalize the learning to other areas
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What is the most expensive part of an electric vehicle?

Switching to an electric car may save thousands of shekels a year, most of us know that. But what are the unique maintenance and care expenses for the electric vehicle - and what is the biggest expense?
In the photo, from right to left: Prof. Noam Sobel, the guest lecturer; Bat-Sheva Shur, director of the scholarship program; Prof. Hermona Sorek, member of the Academy Committee for the Adams Scholarship Program; Mrs. Margaret Adams; Omar Grenk; Nitzan Ephraimian; Mr. Sylvan Adams; Ms. Linda Adams-Troy; Prof. David Harel, President of the Academy; Prof. Moshe Oren, Chairman of the Academy Committee for the Adams Scholarship Program; Dr. Julian Adams; Sitting in front: Matan Eilat; Aliana Shteinberg. Shir Cohen and Amir Borshtin are missing. (Photo: Courtesy of the Israel National Academy of Sciences).

The Israel National Academy of Sciences held the Adams Scholarships distribution ceremony for outstanding doctoral students

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In the photo, from right to left: Prof. Noam Sobel, the guest lecturer; Bat-Sheva Shur, director of the scholarship program; Prof. Hermona Sorek, member of the Academy Committee for the Adams Scholarship Program; Mrs. Margaret Adams; Omar Grenk; Nitzan Ephraimian; Mr. Sylvan Adams; Ms. Linda Adams-Troy; Prof. David Harel, President of the Academy; Prof. Moshe Oren, Chairman of the Academy Committee for the Adams Scholarship Program; Dr. Julian Adams; Sitting in front: Matan Eilat; Aliana Shteinberg. Shir Cohen and Amir Borshtin are missing. (Photo: Courtesy of the Israel National Academy of Sciences).
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