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Scanning electron microscope images of guanine plates from a silver spider. Arrow on top points to sandwich-like structure with amorphous guanine filling between two guanine crystals

Why Fish Scales Shine

01.02.2011
Space & Physics, Structural Biology
A normally dull white material becomes a silvery reflecting surface under the right conditions
Prof. Valeri Krongauz

Light-Sensitive Coating for Sunglasses

12.09.2010
Chemistry, Benefiting Humanity
In the 1960s, Institute scientists discovered photochromism, a reversible change in the color of materials due to exposure to light. Following up on...
Prof. Yehiam Prior

Cutting Diamonds With Lasers

12.09.2010
Space & Physics, Chemistry, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Yehiam Prior developed an advanced method for cutting diamonds with lasers. The method practically halves the loss of material and makes it...
Dr. Igor Lubomirsky

When "Miniature" Becomes "Different"

02.09.2010
Materials Science
The fields of microelectronics and satellite communications eagerly await new and more efficient materials that may one day be developed based on...
Structure of GroEL, a barrel-shaped molecular machine found in bacterial cells that helps proteins fold; from the lab of Profs. Gilad Haran and Amnon Horowitz

How Can We Get to Know a Single Photon, Atom or Molecule?

30.08.2010
Space & Physics, Nanoscience
  The role of solitary molecules in electronics is likely to grow as the size of components continues to shrink
Scanning electron microscope image of a sea urchin spine undergoing repair after breakage.

Can Biology Teach Us to Design Better Materials?

30.08.2010
Materials Science
  Scientists look to biology to learn how living organisms create the amazing variety of forms and substances found in nature, and to apply...
(l-r) Dan Bracha, Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv, Dr. Shirley Daube and Dr. Amnon Buxboim. Close quarters

Crowd Control

08.08.2010
Biochemistry, Genetics, Nanoscience, Materials Science
Weizmann Institute scientists provide new tools to realistically manipulate genes in lab experiments.  It might prove to be an essential step...
Prof. Igor Lubomirsky

Saving Up Sunshine

01.05.2010
Energy, Chemistry
A new approach could help save the sun's energy for a rainy day  
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

01.05.2010
Chemistry
Prof. Ada Yonath awarded prize for revealing the structure of the ribosome  
Distribution of skeletal proteins in an artificial membrane resembling a long bacteria: The spontaneous curvature of the proteins (purple) drives them to move together to form rings that coalesce, increasingly constricting the membrane

A Prize for Crossing Boundaries

01.05.2010
Space & Physics, Structural Biology
"Multidisciplinary research" takes on new meaning in one student's work  

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A cryo-scanning electron microscope image of a freeze-fractured chloroplast, cropped from the surrounding tissue, providing a view into the photosynthetic membranes and the protein complexes embedded within them

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An image of tissue from the human small intestine obtained with the help of fluorescent dyes that made it possible to mark numerous proteins in parallel, thereby mapping out the various proteins produced in each part of the intestinal villi
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