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Drs. Elisabetta Boaretto and Tobias Richter. In the foreground is a Natufian hearth at Shubayqa, Jordan

Uncovering Varied Pathways to Agriculture

New dates for a 15,000-year-old site in Jordan challenge some prevailing assumptions about the beginnings of permanent settlement

Recently uncovered remains of a massive stone tower built to guard Gihon Spring – a vital water supply just downhill from the ancient city of Jerusalem

Jerusalem Tower Younger than Thought

Ultra-precise dating takes nearly 1,000 years off its age

separating chiral molecules illustration

Telling Left from Right by Spinning Them with Light

Using lasers to separate chiral molecules had been predicted - but never before demonstrated

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Next-Gen Israeli Satellite to Seek out Cosmic Explosions and Black Holes

Weizmann Institute of Science and the Israel Space Agency of the Ministry of Science and Technology are heading this international project

Neurobiology News

Three papers by Weizmann Institute of Science neuroscientists are slated to appear in the December issue of Nature Neuroscience.

olfactory bulbs

An Exception to the Rule: An Intact Sense of Smell without a Crucial Olfactory Brain Structure

A handful of left-handed women have excellent senses of smell, despite lacking olfactory bulbs

Blocking Resistance Could Reduce Insecticide Use

Researchers screened thousands of compounds with a unique computer algorithm, finding one that may allow farmers to significantly cut insecticide use

How Hot Was the Ocean?

Isotopes in iron oxides laid down two billion years ago hold clues to the conditions in which they were created

Blocking Resistance Could Reduce Insecticide Use

Researchers screened thousands of compounds with a unique computer algorithm, finding one that may allow farmers to significantly cut insecticide use

halide perovskite

Order Trumps Disorder

Explaining the self-healing properties of a remarkable material

How similar are these two faces?

Converging Solutions: Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition

Bar Sagi Tiling: From Refrigerator Door to Mathematics Journal

“Proper Self-Similar Triangle Tiling,” a demanding exercise in drawing and coloring, casts a modern light on an ancient problem

All Natural Color

Phytolon, a start-up based on Weizmann Institute technology, aims to replace artificial food dyes with safe, cost-effective, stable, all-natural...

"We see a lot of clinical applications..."

Prof. Michal Sharon on how to skip costly steps in protein analysis

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Prof. Michael and Sara Sela

I Owe My Life to the Weizmann Institute of Science

olfactory bulbs

An Exception to the Rule: An Intact Sense of Smell without a Crucial Olfactory Brain Structure

For the First Time: A Method for Measuring Animal Personality

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An Exception to the Rule: An Intact Sense of Smell without a Crucial Olfactory Brain Structure

For the First Time: A Method for Measuring Animal Personality

Converging Solutions: Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition

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