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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
steak and hummus

Pay as You Eat

21.11.2016
Genetics, Environment, Energy, Plants and Agriculture
New research on the environmental cost of beef vs legumes
Dr. Flores on Tara

Institute Researcher at Sea

05.09.2016
Environment
Scientists aboard the TARA investigate marine ecology
Midge swarm and star cluster

Insect Swarms May Resemble Star Clusters

11.08.2016
Space & Physics, Theoretical Physics, Environment, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
A new theory developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Stanford University uses a gravitational model to explain the collective behaviour of...
Dr Daniella Schatz

Staff Scientist: Dr. Daniella Schatz

04.08.2016
Viruses & Microorganisms, Evolution and Development, Genetics, Environment
A viral infection in marine microorganisms has consequences for the entire planet 
wheat

On the Surface of Things: Wheat and Barley

07.07.2016
Nutrition, Evolution and Development, Genetics, Plants and Agriculture
The secrets of a protective coating are revealed
illustration: CO2-eating E coli

Eating Air, Making Fuel

23.06.2016
Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics, Environment, Energy
Weizmann Institute scientists engineer bacteria to create sugar from the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide  

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