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dust storm

The Dust Storm Microbiome

27.06.2017
Viruses & Microorganisms, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Environment, Climate
Wind from the desert brings more than dust
algal bloom from space

A Blooming Desert in the Heart of the Ocean

06.04.2017
Environment, Climate
How do algal blooms spread in areas where nutrients are scarce? 
the Paris Hilton Institute of Plastic Pollution Solutions (PHIPPS)

Pre-April Fools' Joke: An Important Announcement from PHIPPS

29.03.2017
Environment, Nanoscience
A recent scientific breakthrough in the study of hydration is to be further developed with support from the Weizmann Institute of Science
How does rock weathering affect the ocean's acidity?

First Oceans May Have Been Acidic

14.03.2017
Planetary Science, Environment, Climate
A model of ion flux in the oceans shows carbon dioxide driving ocean acidity
Arabidopsis leaves with and without cholesterol

High Cholesterol Is Good News – in Plants

20.02.2017
Biochemistry, Nutrition, Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Plants and Agriculture
The biochemical steps to making cholesterol in plants turn out to be surprisingly similar to those in animals 
chiral molecules select electron spins

Controlling Electron Spin for Efficient Water Splitting

13.02.2017
Nano Physics, Quantum Physics, Energy, Nanoscience, Materials Science
The method could lead to solar-based production of hydrogen for fuel 
green rust in the lab

A Rusty Green Early Ocean?

26.01.2017
Environment
A Weizmann lab recreates a primary mechanism by which today's ore deposits originally formed
Tamir Klein tree group

Dr. Tamir Klein Sees the Forest and the Trees

16.01.2017
Biochemistry, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate
Between his lab, the greenhouses and nearby forests, Klein hopes to understand how trees adapt 
Wild faba

In Search of the Wild Fava Bean

07.12.2016
Plants and Agriculture, Scientific Archaeology
Seeds from a site in Northern Israel are the ancestors of today's fava beans
A section of a ripe tomato sample showing the distribution of sucrose (orange) in the flesh and of an antioxidant (green) in the fruit skin tissue; mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) technology was used to map the molecules

Wise Plant Analysis

30.11.2016
Plants and Agriculture, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Weizmann Institute’s WeizMass and MatchWeiz help identify plant metabolites

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