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Cancer research. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Compugen uses gene expression data at the single cell level in space for an in-depth understanding of the cellular environment of cancer tumors

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The combination of computational capabilities with advanced technologies of gene expression at the single cell level in space allowed PVRIG to be visualized at the foci of T cell activation in the tumor environment Initial findings continue to support the rationale of PVRIG inhibition to overcome resistance to immunotherapy
Will China dominate the field of artificial intelligence? Illustration: depositphotos.com

China may win in the field of artificial intelligence - the battlefield of the future

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This is what Zvi Or-Bach, CEO of MonolithIC 3D fears, following an article by Alibaba engineers that shows that they succeeded in speeding up AI applications a thousand times using chips with old technologies * In an interview we conducted with him, he explains that the miracle was done by laying the memory chip on the processor, that is, a XNUMXD chip that uses a XNUMXD architecture different
Prof. Liyad Modrik. Photo: Tel Aviv University spokesperson

A surprising conclusion: the method of the experiment largely determines the result of the experiment

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Neuroscientists have reexamined hundreds of conflicting experiments on the relationship between brain activity and conscious experience. In the world of science today there are four leading and conflicting theories that deal with the study of awareness and the relationship to brain activity. In the study, the researchers re-examined hundreds of experiments that support the conflicting theories and discovered that the contradictions in the experimental findings are mainly due to methodological differences - that is, to a large extent, the form of the experiment predetermines its results
Flows like a liquid, settles like a solid. Superfluid matter. From a study by Dr. Barak Hirschberg, Tel Aviv University

The material that knows how to flow like a liquid and settle like a solid

Researchers predict the existence of a "super-solid" with heavy hydrogen
Burnt houses, Ukraine this week. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The scientific community continues to cut ties with Russia and Belarus

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Academies of sciences around the world are beginning to sever official ties with the academies of Russia and Belarus, but do not prevent scientists from maintaining personal and professional ties with their colleagues. The Israeli Academy of Sciences announced a program to admit Ukrainian scientists
Bacteria resistant to antibiotics. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A technological solution to the problem of antibiotic resistance

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Accurate matching of antibiotics and reducing the chance of developing drug resistance - in a new study by the Technion and the Maccabi Research and Innovation Institute (KSM)
A futuristic utopia. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The climate crisis and the dangers of "long-term thinkers" with an obsession with technology

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A British philosopher believes that we must change economic thinking from the short to the long term, but avoid using the same technological utopias that brought us the climate crisis
A firefighter fights a forest fire. Illustration: depositphotos.com

By 2030, the number of extreme fire events is expected to increase by about 14%; By the end of the century: about 50%

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"Wherever there are trees, fires are likely to occur," says Prof. Leah Wittenberg from the University of Haifa, the Israeli representative on the UN team of experts that compiled the report * Even the arctic regions are no longer immune
Mobileye's fleet of autonomous cars in Israel. Photo Mobileye/Intel

The Economic Committee approved for second and third reading the legal infrastructure for testing autonomous vehicles for public use

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The beginning of the experiment is expected in the second half of the year * it will be possible for up to 500 cars to participate in the experiment
A moth that has developed acoustic camouflage. Courtesy of the author, Thomas Niall University of Bristol.

Moths and bats have been in an evolutionary arms race for millions of years - and we're still uncovering their tricks

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Many species of moths, which are the favorite prey of many bats, have developed all kinds of tricks to avoid being eaten. Some of them developed a sense of hearing at the appropriate frequencies and others, lacking the ability to hear, developed acoustic instead of visual camouflage solutions
ESA's Laser Ranging Station in Tenerife aims its green laser at the sky. Credit: ESA

A laser observation station will make it possible to identify dangers of satellite collisions and space debris

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The European Space Agency's station in Tenerife is a technology testing facility and an essential first step in making waste reduction widely accessible to all players in space who have an impact on the future of our space environment * It will be able to track satellites even in the sky today
EEG test. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Abnormal brain activity during sleep and anesthesia paves the way for early detection and treatment of Alzheimer's

The abnormal brain activity is caused by a failure in the regulatory mechanism and may be used for early diagnosis already in the dormant stage of the disease
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Prof. Oded Ravavi. Photo: Tel Aviv University spokesperson

Can high temperature accelerate the rate of evolution?

Researchers from Tel Aviv University demonstrated with the help of worms that epigenetic inheritance of sexual attraction can influence the process of evolution
Implementation of a transmitter connected to the "Atlas" system, which was recently developed at the Minerva Center for Traffic Ecology at the Hebrew University. Photo: The Hebrew University spokeswoman

Data-rich tracking technologies enable new tools to save endangered wildlife

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An article published in the scientific magazine Science, led by Prof. Ran Natan from the Hebrew University, shows how the "Atlas" system and other data-intensive (big data) tracking systems help to research and preserve wild animals in a world where the climate and environment are rapidly changing due to human activity * The system also helped after the research With the avian flu outbreak that affected the cranes
This illustration shows a simulation of how NASA's Mars Rover, carrying test tubes containing rock and soil samples, might be launched from the surface of Mars during one phase of the Mars sample return mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA chose Lockheed Martin Space to build the rocket that will return the first samples from Mars

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The contract brings NASA one step closer to the first robotic round-trip flight to bring samples safely to Earth through the Mars Sample Return Program
A scheme describing the mechanism of action of the innovative nanoparticles. Courtesy of MIT

Development of oral RNA vaccines

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Researchers have succeeded in developing a method to deliver RNA in a capsule that can be swallowed, a development that will make it easier to take RNA vaccines
The model of the Second Temple. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Am Yisrael sings 8: the days of Herod and Agrippa - the music reaches its peak

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During the time of the last Jewish kings, the Roman government rarely interfered with the internal affairs, therefore an orderly continuation was possible with regard to the Temple and within it - the musical management
Image depicting the novel lipid nanoparticles targeting the coronavirus [Courtesy: Sandro Satta, UCLA]

Researchers have developed molecular traps for the corona virus

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A team of researchers succeeded in developing innovative nanoparticles that could be used as "molecular traps" targeting the corona virus while binding to the virus and thereby preventing it from acting
Dr. Ines Zucker from the School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Environment and Earth Sciences at Tel Aviv University and PhD student Andrey Eitan Rubin. Photo: Tel Aviv University spokesperson

The microplastic increases 10 times the toxicity of organic pollutants in the environment

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The researchers: "The microplastics are a kind of magnet for environmental pollutants, 'driving' them through our digestive system, and releasing them in a concentrated form in certain areas - thus causing increased toxicity."
Dr. Noam Stern-Gnoser. Photo: Peres Blavatnik

The Belluntic Prize will be awarded to three young researchers from universities in Israel

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will each receive a $100 grant for their groundbreaking research
Illustration of a quark core in a neutron star. Credit: Jyrki Hokkanen, CSC – IT Center for Science

"Boson clouds" may explain dark matter

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In this paper the authors argue that dark matter can be composed of particles called scalar bosons. The Higgs boson is a scalar boson but because of its mass it is not a candidate to form the dark matter
Darwin Adventures in the Galapagos Islands. Illustration: depositphotos.com

From Darwin to mate selection

This week, February 12, we celebrated the birthday of Sir Charles Darwin, one of the most influential figures in the history of science, who was born in 1809. His book 'The Origin of Species', published in 1859, presented a revolutionary answer to one of the basic questions that have occupied naturalists for centuries: How do new species form in nature?
Axiom 1 astronauts Larry Connor (left), Michael Lopez-Alegria, Mark Fathy and Ethan Stiva (right). The astronauts successfully passed medical tests and received approval from the Multilateral Committee for Crew Missions. Credit: Axiom Space

NASA approves the private astronauts for the Axiom mission to the International Space Station, including Eitan Stiva

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The Axiom 1 or Ax-1 mission (and in Israel it was named "Rakia") is scheduled to lift off on Wednesday March 30 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the Crew Dragon spacecraft aboard a Space-X Falcon 9 rocket
Neural network (photo: Sagol Center for Regenerative Biotechnology)

Researchers from Tel Aviv University: We succeeded in growing a spinal cord in the laboratory

The scientific breakthrough that may allow paralyzed people to get back on their feet
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