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David defeats Goliath. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Between pottery and verses: Why ancient texts also “lie,” and how archaeology corrects the story

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The archaeological findings are partial and silent in themselves. In contrast, the ancient texts are seemingly detailed and direct. Is that true, or are there disruptions, internal contradictions, and tendencies in them? And if there is a contradiction between the findings and the text, who has
Tovia Kushnir. From Wikipedia

In memory of Tovia Kushnir

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Debating the theory of evolution in the classroom, science education versus religious belief. The image was prepared using DALEE in January 2025 and is not a scientific image

Why don't you want to learn evolution?

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Today, in educational institutions, students are not required to study evolution; The subject is offered in the biology curriculum as an optional chapter only. Why does the idea of ​​evolution arouse such strong opposition?
Crossing the Red Sea, painting by Nicolas Poussin, 1634

Exodus from Egypt - was or was not

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In experiments conducted on mice, the cell transplantation completely stopped the epileptic seizures in about half of the mice, and the other half saw a dramatic decrease in the frequency and intensity of the seizures. Photo: shutterstock

cells against epilepsy

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Caffeine is present in more than 60 known plants and its function is to repel or kill insects. Photo: shutterstock

Bacteria addicted to coffee

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Male and female prairie voles maintain a strong bond after mating, staying together while caring for the offspring and protecting the mates from other prairie voles. Photo: Shutterstock

Like a pair of nerds

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It is possible that the honey substitute does not provide the bees with the protection they need to deal with the pesticides. Photography: Shutterstock

Has the bee disappearance puzzle been solved?

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The stated goal of the project is to put an end to the phenomenon of forging identity cards and passports, but the risk is that the information will leak out and harm citizens' privacy. Illustration: shutterstock

What is the biometric database project?

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Scanning electron microscope image of a pair of Tetrahymena during mating. Photo: The SEPA ASSET (Advancing Secondary Science Education with Tetrahymena) program at Cornell University

The seven species of conjunctiva

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The biomass of plants can be converted into clean fuel, but this conversion is not yet carried out on a large scale, partly because of its high cost. Illustration: shutterstock

green fuel

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Diprotodon, a giant wombat species. Image: Dmitry Bogdanov/Wikimedia Commons

Australia - how giants fell

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A larva of the parasitoid Endaphis after emerging from the body of its host, the banana aphid. Photo: from the original article, courtesy of Frédéric Muratori

The enemy within: the fugitive

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[Adult moth of the species Phyllonorycter blancardella]

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Jelda monkeys. When they blink their lips, they make a sound, which differs from other monkey sounds in that it is produced by moving the lips, similar to the human speech of Jelda monkeys. When they blink their lips, they make a sound, which differs from other monkey sounds in that it is produced by moving the lips, similar to human speech. The family of Jelda monkeys. From Wikipedia

Monkey chatter

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The Red Queen Race. Illustration: John Tenniel, from Lewis Carroll's book "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There".

Who needs sex when you can dry off?

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The first residential building in the world whose energy it consumes is produced by algae The first residential building in the world whose energy it consumes is produced by algae Photo: Colt International, Arup Deutschland, SSC

the green house

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Prof. Ada Yonat, winner of the Nobel Prize for deciphering the spatial structure of the ribosome. Photo: Miki Korn, Weizmann Institute of Science, Wikipedia

Noble blue-white

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The Cygnus spacecraft approaches the International Space Station (Orbital Express Photo

On the way to space: an unmanned private spacecraft

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Glowing plants project logo

The burning tree

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the blood-brain barrier. Photo: Ben Brahim Mohammed via Wikimedia Commons

Does brain activity damage DNA?

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Breast cancer tumor. Photo: from Wikipedia

Breast cancer detection chip

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Simulation of the Curiosity rover firing a laser beam at a rock on Mars. The laser vaporizes part of the rock, and the rover examines the radiation spectrum of the resulting plasma, in order to determine the chemical composition of the rock. Source: NASA / JPL.

Rolling on Mars

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Dr. Yaniv Ehrlich, Whitehead Institute, Boston

The chromosome stays in the family

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The band of desert locusts that entered Israel during the month of November 2004. From Wikipedia

locust plague

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After his return to Israel, Ilan Ramon (first bottom right) was supposed to educate the children of Israel in the love of science and their closeness to the fields of technology

Ilan Ramon - a decade of the ferry disaster

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Cut through the retina. Except for the gray engulfing layers at the bottom, all the parts are transparent and have been painted here for demonstration purposes only. The nerve cells fill the blue volume, and the cell nuclei are pink, brown and red. The light comes from the pupil of the eye (above) and is captured in the funnels of the glial cells (green) where it is concentrated to the color-sensitive cells (membranes) marked in purple. The rest of the scattered light reaches the reed cells that are not sensitive to color (in orange). The thickness of the retina is about a quarter to half a millimeter.

Evil and dark to him

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A collision product in the Atlas experiment that may be a Higgs particle. Figure: Atlas experiment at CERN; December 2012

The existence of the Higgs particle

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Lake Eichbaum where there is a high concentration of bacteria that cause the fish to die. Photo: Wiki-share

Why not pee in water?

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A Metarhizium type fungus attacks cockroach. From Wikishare

There are hidden predators

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The human mind is basically nothing but a machine. There is nothing in it that cannot, in principle, be duplicated. From the movie i Robot

Superhuman intelligence, superhuman intelligence

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common dolphin From Wikipedia

And thanks for the fish!

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Carpenter ants - feed on furniture. From Wikipedia (CC license)

The social network of the ants

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Shaul Mofaz. From Wikipedia

Save your enemy

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Schematic diagram of HIV. From Wikipedia

The medicine worth its weight in gold

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Australopithecus, discovered in 1925, was generally seen as more ape than man, and only after the Second World War was it "elevated" to the rank of hominid. Photo: Wikipedia/okologix

Neanderthal man

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Hot clinker after leaving the kiln. Image manipulation: Macau500, wikimedia/commons

to build with less greenhouse gases

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The machine won a place of supremacy. From the movie "Metropolis" (1927). Screenshot

Robot vs. Human

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Minke whale (endangered) hunted in Iceland. Source - Greenpeace

Mom, buy me a whale

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Utzi, the ice man whose body was preserved for 5,000 years. From Wikishare

A bacterium from 5,000 years ago

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Transit of Venus across the Sun, June 2004

Last transition and farewell

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Genetically modified tomatoes, photo Agricultural Research Service, US Government

Who engineered my food?

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Heat wave in April 2011. From the website israelweather.co.il

Hot, hot, hot!

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An embryo-like body of human embryonic stem cells, formed when the stem cells are transferred to a liquid medium to form a suspension. The origin of the colors are the markers of different cells originating from the three layers of the germ. Photographed with a light microscope at x20 magnification. Courtesy of Prof. Nissim Benvanisti, Hebrew University

the passersby of the dispute

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A chimpanzee uses a stick to pick fruit from distant branches. Public domain image from Wikipedia

Suffering vs benefit

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Dr. Mordechai Stein from the Earth Research Institute at the Hebrew University while drilling in the Dead Sea

The Dead Sea: A Warning from the Past

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A man climbs a cellular antenna. From WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

proof required

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A child with whooping cough during an attack. From Wikipedia

A whooping cough epidemic has hit unvaccinated people in the northeastern US

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Breast cancer tumor. Photo: from Wikipedia

Towards a breast cancer vaccine?

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Logo of the National Committee for Medical Ethics in the USA. From Wikipedia

Human experiments

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