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The low-key celebrations of the half-century of the United Nations has served chiefly as a reminder that the organization is ripe for reform - but not abolition.
With peace under way, and bright immigrants pouring into the country, Israel has a huge opportunity to maximize the potential of its strong science and technology base. Get it right, and its future will never have been brighter.
A remarkable experiment carried out in Paris has shown that it is possible to change the phase of quantum matter waves by modulating a virtual mirror reflecting atoms with a radio-frequency signal.
