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A Little Dusty – but Alive

14.03.2023
Viruses & Microorganisms, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate
​A Weizmann Institute study shows that some bacteria that hitch a long-distance ride on desert dust particles may touch down alive and kicking
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...
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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
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Bacteria and Plants Fight Alike

01.12.2021
Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology, Evolution and Development, Genetics, Environment, Plants and Agriculture
A bacterial mechanism for sensing infection may help boost plant defenses
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...
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GORKY Protein Turns Bitter Tomatoes Sweet

29.04.2021
Genetics, Plants and Agriculture
A huge new database helps reveal tomato riddles and may facilitate the breeding of delicious, disease-resistant tomatoes

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Heavy imbalance: The biomass of humans, livestock, pets and wild mammals (Illustration: Itai Raveh)
27.02.2023
The Weight of Responsibility: Biomass of Livestock Dwarfs That of Wild Mammals
Close-up diagram of the quantum twisting microscope in action. Electrons tunnel from the probe (inverted pyramid at the top) to the sample (bottom) in several places at once (green vertical lines), in a quantum coherent manner
22.02.2023
The Quantum Twisting Microscope: A New Lens on Quantum Materials