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A screenshot of the White House's Aliens.gov website with a design reminiscent of UFO movies and a message about immigration enforcement.

Why do many Americans believe in UFOs – even though there is no evidence of aliens?

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Polls show that nearly half of Americans believe that aliens have already visited Earth. But scientifically, an “unidentified object” is not proof of an alien spacecraft – and is sometimes just the result of a bad photo, sensor
James Watson, discoverer of the structure of DNA. Illustration: depositphotos.com

James Watson, one of the pioneers in discovering the structure of DNA – and the controversial figure behind the “double helix” – has died

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Nobel laureate James Watson has died at the age of 97; along with his seminal contribution to uncovering the structure of DNA with Francis Crick, new historical research highlights Rosalind Franklin’s central role – and
Reconstruction of the image of the German mathematician David Hilbert. Illustration via IDOGRAM.AI

From Cultural Antisemitism to Scientific Racism: Wagner, “Aryan Physics,” and the Voice of Hilbert

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From Richard Wagner's article (1850) and Wilhelm Marr's coining of the term "anti-Semitism" (1879), through Lennard and Stark's "German physics" and Bieberbach and Jansch's psychological engineering—to Hilbert's counter-reaction: "Mathematics has no races"
Transferring medical information via chatbot. Illustration:

Researchers call for adopting a collaborative model in scientific communication that combines values, open discourse, and recognition of uncertainty

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Researchers call for adopting a collaborative model in scientific communication that combines values, open discourse, and recognition of uncertainty
Illustration: pixabay.

Are we all racist deep down?

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Illustration: pixabay.

Knowledge is also an essential infrastructure

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A herd of wildebeest. The model can be applied to many areas - from hoes and shoals of fish to antibiotic resistance, which increases as the diversity of bacteria increases. Photo: Adam Brin.

Go your own way: the success of the group depends on it

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Illustration of Mowgli from "The Jungle Book", 1924. Illustration: Maurice de Becque.

children of the wild

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US President Donald Trump downplays the importance of scientific findings regarding global warming in the event of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. Screenshot from YOUTUBE

An alarming finding: a significant proportion of Americans think that scientific research is harmful to society. Opinion/The Middle Ages are upon us

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Evidence supports non-social causes of sexual orientation. Source: pixabay.

Sexual orientation: this is how we were born

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Fake news is part of the immediate consequences of the age of the screen. Source: Stuart Rankin, based on an old cartoon.

Interrupted dialogue

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Women suffer from biases that make it difficult for them to progress in science. Source: pixabay.

Science suffers from a problem of gender discrimination

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Different types of turtles. Evolution is the only logical explanation for the variety of life forms on Earth. Source: Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (1904) / Wikimedia.

Five things that science knows for sure to be true

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A landscape of olive trees in Italy. Photo: Kite_rin/Shutterstock

The state against science

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The penalty for making a forbidden choice

Free will: everything is expected and permission is given.

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A sign prohibiting entry to those with a pacemaker

Are we becoming "post-human"?

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Prof. Zeev Sternhal. Creator: Ido Kenan. See link to the source of the image at the end of the article

We came to banish darkness: a conversation with Prof. Zeev Sternhal

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Lysenko tropes - the most famous example of foreign and harmful influences on science

The limits of rationality in science

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The web map. The colors represent languages. From Wikipedia. CC license (link to the original image will be provided in the article)

Information science - live the network / Tim Berners-Lee

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From the 2011 Pratt Prize event. PR photo

Minister Gilad Erdan: The media manages to keep environmental issues high on the agenda and influences the decision makers.

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The oldest modern human teeth discovered in Kesem Cave. Photo: Israel Hershkovitz, Tel Aviv University

Why did the ancient man from the beginning of the eye cause a storm on the Internet?

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The symbol of academic freedom of the Central University of Manila

Brainwashing - on freedom of speech and academic freedom / Yitzhak Farnes

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Lottery participation ticket of the Israel Lottery (right) and a form for the participant to choose the lottery numbers (left)

Lottery coincidence: wild exaggeration

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Eli Yishai (photo from 2002)

My conversation with Eli Yishai

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About the fattest cow that saved the honor of democracy, and the tweets that predicted the future of the stock market

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Forensic identification - science at the service of society

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