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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

The two, Katelyn Crico and Drew Weissman, were informed about a month ago that they had won the HARVEI Award at the Technion
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 for Medicine 2023 to Katelin Crico from Hungary and Drew Weissman from the USA who broke the ground in the field of mRNA and accelerated the vaccines for Corona

The Pragyan spacecraft captured this image of the Vikram lander on August 30, before the lunar night enveloped it in its chilly darkness.

The lunar day rose, but the Indian lunar lander and rover failed to wake up

Photo: Fritz Cohen, L.A.M. (from the national photo collection). 1958.

Olim teachers - immigrants and representatives of immigrant schools

This illustration shows an idea of ​​several robots that would connect to Earth to deliver samples collected from the surface of Mars by NASA's Mars Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

What is NASA planning for the ambitious Mars sample return mission?

DALEE 2's interpretation of the matter of floating anti-matter atoms.

For the first time, the free fall of antihydrogen atoms was measured and the effect of gravity on antimatter was discovered

The price of one etrog may reach 500 shekels. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Etrog in danger: will it be impossible to grow etrog in Israel in the future?

Space and astronomy

In Ellipse: The Dark Age of the Universe. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Radio waves from the moon will shed light on the early universe

This image shows Neptune viewed with the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT). At each pixel inside Neptune, MUSE splits the incoming light into its component colors or wavelengths. Figure: ESO

Dark spots on Neptune were first discovered from Earth

NASA's Parker Solar Probe recently passed through one of the most powerful coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ever recorded. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Brian Monroe

Parker floated through a strong coronal mass ejection that "sucked" interplanetary dust

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environment and energy

Green Wash. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Are compensations sufficient for the destruction of the environment?

The siksak is a chicken whose wings are brown, the rest of its body is "painted" black and white, and its legs are long and thin. Photo: Reut Alon

Who is braver, the city bird or the country bird?

Neri's research focused on species of sharks and bats - important predators whose population has been significantly affected in recent years. Gray racket. Photography: Ilan Burnakash

Caught in the net: what fish in Gaza?

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Computing and technology

Caption: Above, azobenzene is a molecule that can change its shape with light. An azobenzene molecule switches between two forms under the influence of light. In the lower figure: a molecular cage containing the molecules of the photosensitizer azobenzene. The new mechanism is based on a supramolecular approach in which the molecules of azobenzene and the photosensitizer are locked together in a molecular cage. The limited space accessible to the caged molecules allows only the E-form, but not the Z-form of azobenzene, so this molecule is pushed out of the cage. Credit: Jonathan R. Church

Publication in Science magazine about a new discovery: using harmless light to change the shape of an azobenzene molecule within a supramolecular complex

Excerpt from a video of a speech delivered by Golda Meir, later Prime Minister of Israel, at a conference in Ohio in 1948. The speech was not filmed at all and was prepared using artificial intelligence

The future of studying the past

Autonomous orientations are linked to each other. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The new technology that makes cars easier to steal or crash by criminals

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Biology and Medicine

The gorilla Leah. Photo: Tivor Yeager, courtesy of the Safari

The evolution of facial expressions

On the right: sperm cell of a healthy mouse. On the left: the product (protein) of the SCAPER gene (colored in red). The photograph shows that SCAPER is located at the head of the sperm cell, including in the nucleus

Between the retina, brain and fertility

Cellular "garbage bags" are built using optineurin (in green) around damaged mitochondria (in red). Credit: WEHI

An old mystery solved: New findings change our understanding of the course of Parkinson's disease

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Society and history

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?

Friedrich Wilhelm Leibniz. Illustration: depositphotos.com

On the infinity of the natural machine

One of the Akhat plot tablets in Ugrit. From Wikipedia

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

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Science in Israel

He brought ingenuity to the army as well. Winograd (sitting on the right) during a break from operational activity Photo courtesy of the Winograd family

The promising researcher who was killed in a tank

Insisted on returning to service. Wahlberg (left) with a tank crew in reserve training Photo courtesy of the Wahlberg family

The scientist who did not return from the war

Kornit Vision's artificial cornea. PR photo

Kornit Vision accelerates the development of its artificial corneal implant that will restore sight to the blind

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