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A band of bouzouki players from the Balkans. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Pythagoras was wrong: scientists have discovered that there are no universal musical harmonies

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Their research, published in Nature Communications, shows that in normal listening contexts, we do not necessarily prefer chords that are in these exact mathematical relationships but prefer small deviations from them
Eyal Waldman speaks to the members of the Science and Technology Committee of the Knesset, 3/3/2024. Screenshot

Eil Waldman in the Science Committee of the Knesset I would like to investigate in depth whether there was improper interference that led to the cancellation of the Israel Awards

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"The truth is that my candidacy was not liked by the honorable minister and people close to the prime minister and maybe even the prime minister himself because I am known as an opponent of him and the regime revolution he tried to bring about," said Waldman, who is also a bereaved father after his daughter and her partner were murdered on October 7
Asteroid 2008 OS7's last approach to Earth on the day before Asteroid 2008 OS7 passes near Earth on February 2, 2024. This series of images was taken by the powerful 230-foot (70-meter) Goldstone Solar System Radar antenna near Barstow, California Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Unexpected Discoveries: NASA Planetary Radar Images Reveal Asteroid As It Approaches Earth

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During asteroid 2008 OS7's final approach to Earth on February 2, 2024, the agency's Deep Space Radar collected the first detailed images of the stadium-sized asteroid
Photograph of the landing site from the moon lander Odysseus. PR photo, from the Intuitive Machines website

The moon lander Odysseus will stop operating the day after tomorrow (Tuesday 5/3/2024) when darkness falls on its landing area on the side

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Odysseus landed on its side instead of landing at a vertical angle, which disrupted communication with Earth. Some of the antennas were blocked by the inverted spacecraft, and those that remained exposed were too close to the ground, leading to patchy communications.
Artist's rendering of the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes: Using archival data from the Gemini North Telescope, a team of astronomers has measured the heaviest pair of supermassive black holes ever found. The merger of two supermassive black holes is a long-predicted but never-observed phenomenon. This pair provides insight into why such an event seems so unlikely in the universe. Credit: NOIR LAB

Astronomers have measured the heaviest pair of black holes ever found

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Data from the Gemini North Telescope provide a possible explanation for the halting of the merger of a pair of supermassive black holes at the center of a galaxy
The cosmic microwave background - the oldest light in the universe - traveled vast distances before reaching us. During its long journey, gravitational forces from massive cosmic structures caused its orbit to bend before it was captured by the South Pole Telescope. Credit: Zhaodi Pan/Argonne National Laboratory

The Antarctic telescope offers a map of the distribution of dark matter in the universe

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Argon is part of a multi-institutional effort to survey the skies for clues about the origins and nature of our universe.
Astronomers have found water vapor in the disk around a young star right where planets are likely to form. In this image, the new observations from the ESO partner Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) show the water vapor in shades of blue. Near the center of the disc, where the young star lives, the environment is hotter and the gas is brighter. The red rings are previous ALMA observations showing the distribution of dust around the star.Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Facchini et al.

Astronomers discover a new connection between water and the formation of planets

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An amount of water at least three times greater than the water in all the Earth's oceans was discovered in the inner disk of the young Sun-like star HL Tauri, 450 light-years away from Earth, in the Taurus group
thanks for the correction. The corrected translation would be: SwRI scientists used data from the James Webb Space Telescope to model the geothermal processes in the subsurface that may explain how methane reached the surface of Eris and Maki Maki, two dwarf planets in the distant Kuiper Belt. The figure suggests three possibilities, including the likelihood that liquid water exists within these icy bodies at the edge of the solar system, far from the sun's heat. Credit: Southwest Research Institute.

Astronomers reveal surprising activity on the dwarf planets Eris and Maki Maki

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The Webb telescope has observed what appear to be young methane deposits on the surface of Eris and Maki Maki
Dr. Lonnie Johnson. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

"Technology accelerates human evolution"

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Dr. Lonnie Johnson, an inventor who registered over 100 patents and developed a solid-state battery based on them, describes human evolution as an interactive process between biology and technology, in which each influences and is influenced by its own
Preparations for the Rob Goldberg Competition Davidson Institute for Science Education. Photograph of the Hattab C. School staff.

The machine that produces coexistence

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In the coming week, a competition will be held at the Davidson Institute in which 15 classes from both the Jewish and the Arab societies will take part, and will compete in the Rob Goldberg machine competition
A study predicts the extension of the Strait of Gibraltar subduction zone into the Atlantic Ocean, which could create an Atlantic Ring of Fire within about 20 million years. This research sheds light on the dynamic nature of ocean life cycles and the formation of new reduction zones, using advanced computational models. It offers new insights into the activity of the subduction zone in Gibraltar and its implications for seismic activity, emphasizing the importance of preparedness and studying the process of ocean contraction as a key process in the geological evolution of the Earth. Credit: Mr Elliot Lim, CIRES &NOAA/NCEI

As the oceans close - a new study indicates that the Atlantic Ocean will "soon" enter its sunset phase

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Research shows for the first time how direct invasion of mitigation zones can occur. The 3D computational model, driven by gravity, predicts that the subduction zone currently under the Strait of Gibraltar will spread further into the Atlantic Ocean and contribute to the creation of an Atlantic subduction system - a ring of fire similar to that existing in the Pacific Ocean
Artist's rendering of a group of G. blacki within a forest in southern China. Credit: Garcia/Juan-Boyo (Southern Cross University)

3 meter tall apes in East Asia became extinct because they were overspecialized

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In the spectacular karst landscapes of southern China, giant apes, known as Gigantopithecus blacki, once roamed. They were three meters tall and weighed about 250 kilograms. They became extinct about 300 thousand years ago. The reasons for the extinction of these apes remained a mystery for years
Odysseus the moon lander. Illustration: Intuitive Machines

For the first time a private spacecraft lands on the moon

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A historic achievement for the United States, which returns to land on the moon for the first time since 1972, and the company Intuitive Machines, which seeks to prove its capabilities and serve as a supplier of equipment transfer to the moon as part of the Artemis program
This image shows the region of the sky where the record-breaking quasar, J0529-4351, is located. Using the European Southern Observatory's Giant Telescope (VLT) in Chile, this quasar was found to be the most luminous object known in the universe so far. This image was created from images that are part of the Computerized Sky Survey 2, while the smaller image shows the location of the quasar in an image from the Dark Energy Survey. Credit: ESO/Computerized Sky Survey 2/Dark Energy Survey

The brightest object in the universe has been discovered - powered by a massive sun-swallowing black hole

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The material being pulled toward this disk-shaped black hole emits so much energy that J0529-4351 is more than 500 trillion times brighter than the Sun
Illustration of the crater created during the collision between the DART spacecraft and the Dimorphos asteroid. In the background: the European HERA spacecraft and its nanosatellites (CubeSats) in follow-up research. Credit: ESA Science Office

repel the asteroid

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Technion researchers are partners in the HERA space mission: first attempt in history to divert an asteroid from its orbit
Threats to environmental journalists. The image was prepared with the help of DALEE artificial intelligence software for illustration purposes. It should not be seen as a scientific picture

Being an environmental journalist is a dangerous profession

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This is according to a report published in recent days by the International Journalism Institute. Environmental reporters are exposed to physical and verbal threats, difficulties in accessing information and financial pressure, sometimes while hiding from the eyes of the authorities and even with their encouragement
An image of Jupiter taken by Juno in 2019, showing storm zones in the northern hemisphere. Credit: Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC-BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

Extrasolar Planet Hunter Targets Jupiter: A New Twist in the Space Exploration Plot

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For the first time, NASA activated a tool designed to discover planets many light years away on an object in the solar system, in a study of the winds of Jupiter
Reading thoughts before they become words. The figure was prepared using DALEE software after reading the article.

mind reading? Researchers have developed a method that will allow us to know what we are going to say before we speak

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Individual neurons could recognize, for example, when we are about to touch our tongue to our palate to say the letter D * This will enable the development of prostheses for those suffering from speech problems
The galaxy AM 1054-325 has been warped from a normal pancake-like spiral shape into an S shape by the gravitational pull of a neighboring galaxy, as seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image. As a result, new star clusters were formed along a tidal tail stretched over thousands of light years, resembling a string of pearls. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jayanne English (University of Manitoba)

Hubble discovers how collisions between galaxies create conditions for star formation

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The discovery of an S-shaped galaxy could revolutionize the understanding of the process of star formation
The LISA mission will be the first space-based observatory dedicated to detecting ripples in the fabric of space-time. Credit: ESA

Capturing the Ripples of Space-Time: The LISA Mission to Study Gravitational Waves

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The European Space Agency gets the green light for the first space observatory of its kind, dedicated to revealing space-time vibrations.
A sign of a pharmacy in Italy, with a temperature of forty degrees on it. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Research: The climate crisis may reduce life expectancy by half a year

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A one degree Celsius increase in global average temperature due to the man-made climate crisis could shorten life expectancy by about 5 months, with women and residents of developing countries disproportionately affected
The evolution of horses. Image: Mcy jerry w CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=98977446

A new evolutionary theory explains why animals shrink over time

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Research: A New Understanding of Animal Size Changes Over Time: Competition, Ecological Pressures, and Cope's Law
An amusing representation of the TOI-1136 system if each of the bodies in the system were a duck or a duckling. Credit: Rae Holcomb/University of California at Irvine

The evolution of planets is revealed in a distant solar system

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A newly discovered solar system with six confirmed extrasolar planets and a possible seventh increases astronomers' knowledge of star formation and evolution
the scarab Photo by Anastasia Shapiro, Israel Antiquities Authority

A hiker discovered an ancient and rare Assyrian seal amulet in the Nahal Tabor Nature Reserve in the Lower Galilee

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The amulet may testify to the presence of an Assyrian (or perhaps Babylonian) official in the place almost 2,800 years ago * The rare find was transferred to the state treasures and the traveler received a certificate of appreciation from the Antiquities Authority
Prof. Daniela Reva. Photo credit: Chen Galili, Technion Spokesperson

For the first time: a woman Dean at the head of the Faculty of Aeronautics and Space Engineering at the Technion

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Prof. Daniela Reva, a graduate of the faculty, took office on January 1, 2024
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