Nobel 2006

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore upon their arrival at the International Space Station. Photo: NASA

Difficulty sleeping and the mismatch between Boeing's spacesuits and SpaceX's. The astronauts are still lost in space

NASA faces dilemmas over return of astronauts stranded in space following malfunctions in Boeing's Starliner mission
A close-up photo of the tube's shell openings. Photography by Ayelet Nir

A snail without limits

The 'pipe builder' snail was awarded the title of 'environmental engineer', in light of its contribution to the construction of rocky surfaces on the coastline and reducing their rate of weathering in an effective way. It came to the brink of extinction, but researchers from Ben Gurion University succeeded