Itai Nebo, editor of the Davidson Institute website

He brought ingenuity to the army as well. Winograd (sitting on the right) during a break from operational activity Photo courtesy of the Winograd family

The promising researcher who was killed in a tank

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Isaiah Winograd was one of the young professors at the Technion, a promising scientist who was involved in a variety of fields, from rocket propulsion to water desalination, an artist and a family man, and also a reserve officer who rushed to the Syrian front in the Yom Kippur War, and was killed
Insisted on returning to service. Wahlberg (left) with a tank crew in reserve training Photo courtesy of the Wahlberg family

The scientist who did not return from the war

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Alexander Wahlberg, doctor of physical chemistry, returned to Israel after years of studying and working in the United States and worked at Kirya for nuclear research. He also insisted on continuing to serve in the reserves, as a patrol officer, and his death in the Yom Kippur War
Belong to three groups, 17 in the opposite direction, three in the normal direction. The moons that were discovered Illustration: Carnegie Institution

20 more moons were discovered around the planet Saturn * bypassed Jupiter

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Alexander von Humboldt. From Wikipedia

The man who invented the environment

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He led the concept that the inspector is the supreme person responsible for the task and his determinations should not be contested. Craft in the control center Photo: NASA

Chris Kraft, founder of the NASA control room in Houston, has passed away

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Good potential for living. The Tigarden red dwarf and two planets, next to our solar system Illustration: University of Göttingen

Scientists have discovered evidence of two Earth-like planets orbiting a small sun only 12.5 light-years away.

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A short passage that should reveal an unknown celestial gram. New Horizons visualization near Thule Ultima (not to scale) | Source: NASA

Three and a half years after Pluto, New Horizons flew past Thule Ultima in the Kuiper belt

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Two horns are already operating, a third should join soon. A view of the synchrotron inside the building. Photography: Itai Nebo.

Accelerating peace

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Robin together with Kent Ford examining the equipment at the Lowell Observatory in 1965. Source: Carnegie Institution, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism.

The woman behind dark matter

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An artist's illustration of the surface of Proxima b, an Earth-like world orbiting the closest star to the Sun - Proxima Centauri. Image: ESO / M. Kornmesser

2016: a fascinating scientific year

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Short flashes of light that opened a new world. Zweil (second from the right) with his students Photo: California Institute of Technology

Ahmed Zaweil, the Egyptian researcher who changed the face of the study of fast processes in chemistry, has passed away

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A simulation of Juno near Jupiter. The probe's massive solar panels can be clearly seen. Image: NASA

Success in the first stage - Juno in orbit around Jupiter

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Jupiter - shutterstock rendering of an original NASA image

A small blow to a large planet

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A herd of mammoths. Illustration: shutterstock

A world is disappearing

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topographic protection. A model of the future radiation shield for astronauts. Photography: Itai Nebo

A vest for every astronaut

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Simulation of the launch of SpaceIL's Israeli spacecraft to the moon from the third stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. The launch is expected towards the end of 2017. Photo: Courtesy of SpaceIL

A big step on the way to the moon - SpaceIL signed with SpaceX to launch the spacecraft to the moon in about two years

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Illustrating the way Nobel laureate Satoshi Umura arrived at the effective substances against parasitic diseases. Illustration: Nobel Prize website

Bacteria and plants against parasites

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A deep perceptual change. Macdonald (right) and Kajita. Photos: Nobel Prize website

What a class, I have a mass! – Nobel Prize in Physics for the scientists who revealed the secrets of neutrinos

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The map of global warming in recent decades. From Wikipedia

Opinion/What is the connection between Daesh and the global warming?

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HIV viruses attack a cell. Illustration: shutterstock

The virus that does not infect directly

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The Iranian military nuclear program. Illustration: shutterstock

The nuclear and us - questions and answers following the agreement with Iran

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Did they come from one source? The surface of Pluto and in the background its large moon, Charon. Image: NASA

Pluto - a point of light in the darkness

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A combination of a bully and food yields a particle with five quarks. Illustration: CERN

Scientists have discovered an unknown subatomic particle

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The Philae lander stands vertically on its side with one leg in outer space. Here we see it in relation to the panoramic image taken by the CIV camera. Photo: ESA

The comet lander with whom contact was lost transmitted a first sign of life after seven months

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fall asleep and wake up. VZV viruses (painted green) inside fibers of nerve cells. Photo courtesy of Prof. Ron Goldstein, Bar-Ilan University

uproot the scab from the stem

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Bacteriophage under the microscope. Photo: shutterstock

dislodge the resistance

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escape with the help of a complex genetic mechanism. Malaria parasites in red blood cells. Photo courtesy of Prof. Ron Dzikowski.

You will fight with tricks - with malaria

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Teaching evolution in schools. Illustration: shutterstock

Survey: 70% support evolution studies - 66% in Jewish schools, 89% in Arab schools

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Map of Nepal with the major earthquake of April 25, 2015 and the aftershocks that followed. Figure: US Geological Survey

Why did we go down the Richter scale?

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The surface of the planet Mercury. A photo from the Messenger spacecraft just before it hit the ground. Photo: NASA

The Messenger crashed on the planet Hema

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The image of Einstein from a 1968 Israeli five pound banknote. Photo: Arkady Mazor / Shutterstock.com

The man who changed the universe: 60 years since the death of Albert Einstein

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A long trip on the way to Mars; NASA sends an identical twin and examines how a year's stay in space affects the astronauts

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Artificial evidence. Illustration: shutterstock

see as the born

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Green energy in the sky. Solar Impulse 2 in the skies of Dubai. photo: Solar Impulse

Around the world without fuel

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immune system. Illustration: shutterstock

Get vaccinated very early

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Stick to any disease

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The robots are just the vanguard force. Robonaut-2 at the space station (right) and Rex Wollheim at the Ramon gathering Photographs: NASA, Sivan Farage.

There is no substitute for human activity in space, says astronaut Rex Welheim, who visited as part of Space Week

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Group member Or Tamir with a model of "spaghetti" against the background of an illustration of a hook. Photographs: Jonathan Ashur, NASA

Students from Jerusalem won the Space Olympics for Ilan and Assaf Ramon

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The Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on December 19, 2012 carrying the 34th crew members to the International Space Station. Photo: NASA/Carla Ciopi.

Israeli astronaut: Not in this decade

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One of the deadliest creatures in the world. Snail Conus geographus | Photo: Kerry Matz National

The sugar trap

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Using stem cells to grow organs for transplantation. Illustration: shutterstock

The stem cell revolution turned out to be a fraud

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Treatment of people who have had an epileptic seizure. Illustration: shutterstock

Scientists have identified the gene that causes severe epileptic disease

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Andreas Vesalius dissects a corpse. The cover of the book De humani corporis fabrica. Photo: Wikimedia

The man who turned medicine into a science

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A solution to the world's hunger problems? Engineered muscle tissue in culture. Photo courtesy of the Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Tel Aviv University

At Tel Aviv University they are trying to grow chicken breast in culture

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A boy in Beijing wears a mask to protect himself from air pollution. Photo: shutterstock

Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy increases the risk of an autistic birth

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Books, gentlemen. Visual visualization of the web of languages ​​according to the number of translations. Figure: Global Language Network

Research: What is the secret of the power of the most influential languages?

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common denominator at the cell level. Embryonic (A) and evolutionary (B) development. Illustration courtesy of the Technion

Evolution between the layers

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The source of water in the oceans? Vapors emitted from Comet Churyumov Gersimenko in a Rosetta photograph. Photo: European Space Agency, ESA

Water from a comet or an asteroid?

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In the meantime, fly without astronauts. Orion on the launch pad. Photo: NASA

USA returns to space - first test flight for the "Orion" spacecraft

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A complex and challenging task. The spacecraft landed on the asteroid. Image: Japanese space agency JAXA

This morning, Japan launched the Yabusa-2 spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid

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