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How to Reduce Shockwaves in Molecular Beam Experiments

07.06.2017
Nano Physics, Particle Physics, Planetary Science, Quantum Physics
Aerospace engineering provided the answer
Physicists

Neutral Particles Pack Heat

03.04.2017
Particle Physics, Quantum Physics, Theoretical Physics
Proving a 20-year-old theory, scientists show that imaginary particles carry the same energy as real ones
Dr. Lorne Levinson

Staff Scientist: Dr. Lorne Levinson

08.08.2016
Space & Physics, Particle Physics
Building new instruments, from Weizmann labs to CERN
thermal equilibrium in coffee

Quantum Memories

03.03.2016
Space & Physics, Lasers & Optics, Astrophysics, Nano Physics, Particle Physics, Planetary Science, Quantum Physics, Theoretical Physics
Weizmann Institute scientists suggest a way around the mixing of information in a quantum system
Prof. Gregory Falkovich. An electric current behaving like a fluid forms a vortex (white arrows) that generates a characteristic circular heat pattern (red and orange)

Against the Current

28.02.2016
Space & Physics, Particle Physics, Theoretical Physics
Can electrons flow like liquid? 
Supernova 3C58, first observed in the year 1181 AD by Chinese and Japanese astronomers, imaged by the Chandra telescope in X-ray emissions. NASA/CXC/SAO

Seeing a Supernova in a New Light

29.06.2015
Astrophysics, Particle Physics
Ultraviolet observations may shed new light on exploding stars
A small black hole gains mass: Dense cold gas (green) flows toward the center of a stellar cluster (red cross in blue circle) with stars (yellow); the erratic path of the black hole through the gas (black line) is randomized by the surrounding stars

All-You-Can-Eat at the End of the Universe

11.08.2014
Astrophysics, Particle Physics, Theoretical Physics
A new model shows how early black holes could have grown to over a billion solar masses  
The first electron microscope (Saul, RCA – EMU - 2A). (l-r) John Fany, Prof. David Danon and Dr. Yehuda Marikovsky, 1956

Someone to Operate It and a Place to Put It

03.08.2014
Lasers & Optics, Particle Physics, Life Sciences, Technology
The story of the first electron microscope at the Institute
An illustration showing the magnetic field lines of two electrons, arranged so that their spins point in opposite directions

Measuring the Smallest Magnets

28.07.2014
Particle Physics, Quantum Physics
Weizmann physicists measured magnetic interactions between single electrons  
Running muscles may be predominantly fast- or slow-twitch

Completing the Metabolite Picture

27.05.2014
Particle Physics, Chemistry, Technology
A new MRI-based method can detect metabolite levels in real time

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