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clouds. Photo: Tamar Deutsch

Eat, Prey, Rain

24.07.2011
Environment, Chemistry
A new model for the dynamics of clouds and rain shows they behave like prey and predator
(l-r) Prof David Cahen and Dr. Pabitra Nayak. Setting limits

A Place in the Sun

13.06.2011
Energy, Materials Science
A new analysis sets the efficiency limits for a  solar cell made with organic molecules.
(l-r) Drs. Olga Davydov and Nardy Lampl, Prof. Robert Fluhr, Drs. Ofra Budai-Hadrian and Thomas Roberts. Secrets to growth

Keeping Pace with the World’s Food Demand

21.03.2011
Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Plants and Agriculture
Understanding plants’ survival systems could help reduce agricultural losses. 
Woodland strawberry. Image courtesy of H. Zell, Wikimedia commons

Wild Strawberry Secrets Revealed

22.02.2011
Genetics, Plants and Agriculture
Institute scientists make a significant contribution to the wild strawberry genome.
Paper Archives Reveal Pollution’s History

Paper Archives Reveal Pollution’s History

08.02.2011
Environment, Chemistry
A new source of climate records is as close as the nearest university library: Back issues of magazines reveal the rise in atmospheric CO2 from...
Satellite image of a marine stratocumulus system, courtesy of NASA

Self-Organizing Clouds

01.02.2011
Environment, Energy, Climate
Some marine cloud systems reveal a puzzling pattern: a nearly perfect grid of cloud cells with hexagonal shapes
Scanning electron microscope image of Emiliania huxleyi superimposed on a MODIS satellite image of an E. huxleyi bloom in the Barents Sea from 27 July 2004. Satellite image courtesy of Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA; Inset SEM photo by Steve Gschmeissner, Photo Researchers, Inc.

From the Lab to the Ocean

01.02.2011
Life Sciences, Viruses & Microorganisms, Plants and Agriculture
Tiny phytoplankton are key to the oceans' health – as well as our own
Weizmann Institute researchers, together with an international team: Sequence the Full Woodland Strawberry Genome

Weizmann Institute researchers, together with an international team: Sequence the Full Woodland Strawberry Genome

27.12.2010
Genetics, Plants and Agriculture
In a collaborative effort involving 74 researchers from 38 research institutes, scientists have produced the full genome of a wild strawberry plant....
Prof. Avigdor Scherz

Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer

12.09.2010
Plants and Agriculture, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Avigdor Scherz studied photosynthesis, the process by which plants capture sunlight and convert it into useful energy. Together with Prof....
Prof. Emeritus Esra Galun

Hybrid Seed Production

12.09.2010
Plants and Agriculture, Benefiting Humanity
In the 1950s, Prof. Emeritus Esra Galun’s research focused mainly on hybrid seed production in cucumbers and melons and on breeding disease-resistant...

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