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The cover of Euclid's book of fundamentals published in Holland in 1740.

Euclid's Fundamentals

Researchers examined the Hebrew translations of the "Elements" by Euclid and traced their origins
Horror Movie. Illustration: depositphotos.com

How morbid curiosity can lead people to conspiracy theories

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Morbid hypocrisy is not inherently bad, but an increased interest in learning about the dangers presented in conspiracy theories can reinforce beliefs that the world is a much more dangerous place than it actually is.
Volunteers from Tel Aviv University in Sdot Otef. Photo: University Spokesperson

An extraordinary image of solidarity: the average financial contribution per person doubled, and over 60% of the public contributed to various initiatives

A new report reveals the donation and volunteering rates of the public in the third week of the "Iron Swords" war
pensioners. Illustration: depositphotos.com

spread? Or not retire?

What makes people continue to work after retirement age? And how does this work affect mental well-being and life satisfaction?
The cover of the book "It's all in your head"

From the principle of not knowing, through psychosomatic diseases to the operations of the Matkal patrol - a list of recommended books on behalf of the "News of the Science" website

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Below is a review of recommended non-fiction books in Hebrew for 2023 - part XNUMX and this time "Everything in your head - about psychosomatic diseases and the relationship between body and mind" by Susan O'Sullivan, "The Principle of Unknowing" by Ofir Janko, "The Quantum Universe" by Brian Cox and F Porshaw and "Mittal Defense Patrol: The unit's major operations" by Avner Shur and Aviram Halevi.
Shafra Buchris, a police officer who rescued ten of the party participants in the bad guys. The massacre in the Gaza Strip is considered a war crime. Screen shot Channel 11

How do the 'laws of war' apply to the conflict between Israel and Hamas

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Prof. Robert Goldman, an expert on the laws of war at the American University, explains how the laws of war apply to the current conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip
Photograph of the Earth and the Moon by the Galileo spacecraft. Photo: NASA

Carl Sagan discovered life on Earth 30 years ago - how his experiment helps us look for alien species today

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It has been 30 years since a group of scientists led by Carl Sagan found evidence of life on Earth using data from instruments aboard NASA's Galileo space probe and only combining instruments while ignoring existing knowledge made this possible
The photographs of the children who were kidnapped from their homes to Gaza. From the headquarters website of the families of the abductees. #bringthemhomenow

Come to Israel, Greta, and tell the world what you saw

I read the identification you (#GretaThunberg) expressed with Gaza and Hamas, and I feel deep sorrow and pity for your painful blindness. We both live out of an environmental ideology, but while you were in a safe place - my life and the lives of those dear to me were in existential danger. A resident of Kibbutz Nir-Am and an environmentalist writes to climate activist Greta Thunberg
Forty babies were murdered in a massacre in the Gaza Strip, 7/10/2023. From the social networks as part of an awareness project to the world.

Stand up against terrorism and violence: a call to the international scientific community

A letter sent by the top of the Weizmann Institute to colleagues in academia around the world requesting that they not evade the condemnation of terrorism on 7/20/32
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Scientists debunk a myth: do trees really have feelings?

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32 plant and forest researchers from all over the world published an article in the journal Trends in Plant Science in which they examined all these claims
Prof. Ariel Porat. Photo: Yonatan Tzur Dovdevani

Letter from the president of Tel Aviv University: Six days to war - a snapshot

All the universities in Israel are dealing this week with students who expressed support for Hamas on social networks and announced that they will act against such students. The president of Tel Aviv University joins the call for universities around the world to punish students and faculty members who expressed support for Hamas
Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize for scientists who managed to create quantum dots - the technology behind the QLED screens

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Today, quantum dots, which are tiny nanoparticles whose size determines their properties, illuminate computer monitors and TV screens when these are based on QLED technology. In the field of medicine, quantum dots are currently used to map biological tissues
From the left, Prof. Franz Krause, and Prof. Anne L'Ollier during the ceremony of receiving the Wolf Prize from the President of Israel Yitzhak Herzog. Photo courtesy of the Wolf Foundation

Nobel Prize in Physics for 2023 to researchers who managed to measure tiny and fast processes in electrons

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The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three researchers: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier for "the development of their methods that produce extremely short attosecond pulses of light For the study of the dynamics of electrons inside the material"
Figure 1. Methods for vaccine production before the corona epidemic. (Courtesy of the Committee for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine): Use of a weakened or inactive virus and a recombinant protein (the virus) that is transferred to the body via a viral vector and activates the immune system. Courtesy of the Nobel Prize Committee

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023 for the pioneers in the field of mRNA who accelerated the vaccines for Corona

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Kariko and Weissman immediately realized that their discovery was of enormous significance for the possible use of messenger RNA in medicine. These important findings were published in 2005, 15 years before the outbreak of the Corona epidemic.
2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering mRNA applications for corona vaccines

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The two, Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, were informed about a month ago that they had won the HARVEI Award at the Technion
Photo: Fritz Cohen, L.A.M. (from the national photo collection). 1958.

Olim teachers - immigrants and representatives of immigrant schools

How did the elementary school teachers who immigrated to Israel in the mass immigration of the 50s affect the Israeli education system
The rare sight. Photo by Emil Eljam, Antiquities Authority

Has a tomb of an "escort woman" (the Taira) from 2,300 years ago been discovered in Jerusalem?

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A grave in which the remains of a woman were discovered with a rare mirror next to her opens an extraordinary window into customs that were 'imported' to Israel with the Hellenistic occupation * It seems that the person buried was a young woman of Greek origin, who accompanied a senior member of the Hellenistic army or government on his journey through Israel
Friedrich Wilhelm Leibniz. Illustration: depositphotos.com

On the infinity of the natural machine

Prof. Ohad Nachumi, Head of the Department of Humanistic Studies and Arts at the Technion, investigates the connection between the old and new world of thought in Leibniz's thought.
One of the Akhat plot tablets in Ugrit. From Wikipedia

The stories of the Bible: the prose that was a song

Biblical prose may have begun as narrative poems, similar to those prevalent in the ancient Near East.
A woman-like figurine. Photograph of the Antiquities Authority.

Magicians in the mountains of Eilat

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Objects that appear to have been used by folk sorcerers were discovered along the ancient road that led from Egypt to Mecca about 400 years ago
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NASA publishes an independent report on the study of unidentified anomalous phenomena (formerly UFOs)

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NASA will appoint a dedicated research director for the UAP field, which indicates the seriousness of the intention. Head of NASA: No alien remains were found, and the committee will not examine this issue but the aerial phenomena
Ancient Greek culture. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Ancient Jewish Music 25: Jewish music in the Diaspora

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The Jews in the Greek-Hellenistic space were more involved in everything related to Greek customs that penetrated Judaism such as the hemansion and especially music
The famous prehistoric rock paintings of Tsili N'Air, Algeria. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The evolutionary changes following the extinction of the large animals

The need to hunt small animals caused prehistoric man to improve his mental abilities in order to perfect his hunting tools
Taking the swords out of the closet where they were hidden. Photo: Emil Eljam, Antiquities Authority

Researchers went to photograph an inscription in a cave near Ein Gedi and also found there a weapon cache from the time of the Bar Kochba rebellion

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In Selik, four swords and a bayonet head were found that are approximately 1900 years old and were preserved in wooden and leather cases, in excellent condition. that the swords were taken as spoils of war, and hidden in a cave by Jewish rebels
Antiquities Authority excavations at the Byzantine church in Geth Shemanim. Photo: Shai Halevi, Antiquities Authority

Researches the roads to Jerusalem

Annette Landes Nagar is an archaeologist-digger and Bar Ilan President Fellow, whose research has yielded important discoveries in the Jerusalem area
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