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Comet attack on young earth. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Mysterious Travelers: Are We Drinking Water Brought by Dark Comets?

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Could asteroids, which are remnants of comets, be one of the main sources of water on Earth?
The researchers used protein staining techniques to reveal the identity of the cells in the organoids they created. In the picture you can see four organoids of the central nervous system in the fetus, where in purple are proteins associated with the development of the front and middle brain, in green - the hindbrain, and in red - the center of the spinal cord

from the brain to the tail

Researchers from the University of Michigan and the Weizmann Institute of Science have for the first time developed a central nervous system on a chip that faithfully simulates that of the human fetus - from the end of the spinal cord to the forebrain
A laser that can detect traces of explosives on a zipper. Photo: Michigan State University

Laser-based devices in mirrored devices will be able to detect explosives even if they are hidden in zippers

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Light at the end of the tunnel, a common motif in the stories of heart attack survivors who reported a "near-death experience". Illustration: shutterstock

Last electrical signals of consciousness in the brain after cardiac death may be the source of a 'near-death experience'

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Some of the green pea galaxies. Illustration: Anne Jaskot, University of Michigan

The green pea galaxies could help astronomers understand the early universe

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Photo caption: Signing status between the universities: (first row from left to right) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Vice President for Research and Development, Prof. Moti Hershkowitz, University of Michigan's Vice President for Research, Prof. Stephan Forst, (second row from left to right) Ben University's President -Gurion in the Negev, Prof. Rebecca Karmi and University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman.

Group: Ben-Gurion University of Michigan cooperative agreement; a quarter of a million shekels scholarship for the humanities; honor to the president of Afka;

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Dr. Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan

Self-Designing Matter / John Matson

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An image of the interaction between the hormone leptin and its receptor, an image derived with the help of an electron microscope. The two arms of the receptor become more rigid following the binding to the hormone and transmit a signal to an enzyme known as Janus kinase.

A new target for anti-obesity drugs

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A gold coin minted by Ptolemy V and discovered in the north of the country in 2010 depicts a queen - possibly Arsinoe II, who married her brother Ptolemy II. Photo: Antiquities Authority

A very rare gold coin about 2200 years old was discovered in excavations in the north

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Researchers heated algae in a device similar to a pressure cooker to produce crude biofuel. Photography: Nicole Casal Moore

Biofuel production by cooking algae in a pressure cooker

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

The building blocks of the fastest quantum computer have been built

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