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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
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...

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Prof. Idit Shachar; Professor of Immunology and Head of the Office for the Advancement of Women in Science and Gender Equality at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Photo: Yael Ilan

Paving the Way for the Future of Women Scientists
Electron microscopy images representing different views of the MC4 receptor bound to setmelanotide, in complex with proteins activated by the binding

The Hunger Games: Uncovering the Secret of the Hunger Switch in the Brain
Prof. Bat Sheva Eylon

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Inhibitory mouse neurons – viewed under a microscope

An Essential Balancing Act: Neurons Adapt to Stay Steady

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Electron microscopy images representing different views of the MC4 receptor bound to setmelanotide, in complex with proteins activated by the binding
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The Hunger Games: Uncovering the Secret of the Hunger Switch in the Brain
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17.03.2021
Advanced Mouse Embryos Grown Outside the Uterus