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Heavy imbalance: The biomass of humans, livestock, pets and wild mammals (Illustration: Itai Raveh)

The Weight of Responsibility: Biomass of Livestock Dwarfs That of Wild Mammals

27.02.2023

Nutrition, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate

Wild land mammals weigh less than 10 percent of the combined weight of humans and are outweighed by cattle and other domesticated mammals by a factor...

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Answering a Question That Has Bugged Ecologists for Decades

03.02.2023

Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate

Researchers have produced the first global estimate of the combined weight of all land insects and related arthropods

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Look on the Bright Side of Earth

23.01.2023

Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Environment, Climate

Why do Earth’s hemispheres look equally bright when viewed from space? Weizmann Institute scientists offer a solution to this 50-year-old mystery

An illustration showing four modular enzyme fragments (highlighted) that Weizmann Institute’s CADENZ method can combine to generate active enzymes at a hitherto unseen rate

Building Better Enzymes – by Breaking Them Down

12.01.2023

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Biochemistry, Evolution and Development, Environment, Energy, Plants and Agriculture, Climate, Benefiting Humanity, Biotechnology

In a major step toward greener industry, Weizmann Institute scientists create a computational method for generating enzymes with unprecedented...

Winter storms in the Southern Hemisphere / NASA Worldview

Harder Winters, Stronger Storms

26.05.2022

Planetary Science, Environment, Climate

New data reveals climate change might be more rapid than predicted

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Breakfast of Champions

26.04.2022

Organic Chemistry, Nutrition, Evolution and Development, Environment, Climate

A new study reveals how microscopic algae became exceptionally nutritious over time, driving evolution forward

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Measured in Depth for the First Time

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Measured in Depth for the First Time

28.10.2021

Space & Physics, Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Climate

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers, together with their NASA collaborators, shed new light on Jupiter, revealing a surprising parallel with...

Smoke near Australia

How Bushfire Smoke Traveled Around the World

18.03.2021

Environment, Climate

A study uncovers how some Australian fires produced a spreading stratospheric haze rivaling that of a volcanic eruption

Entering the Cloud “Twilight Zone”

Entering the Cloud “Twilight Zone”

26.11.2020

Nearly invisible, all-but-ignored areas of thin cloud cover raise temperatures below

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The Soil Talks Back

07.05.2020

Systems Biology, Viruses & Microorganisms, Environment, Climate

Learning to decipher this language might help grow better crops or increase production of plant-based drugs

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