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(l-r) Yoav Lahini, Mor Verbin, Yaacov Kraus, Oded Zilberberg and Zohar Ringel

Materials on the Edge

11.12.2012
Lasers & Optics, Particle Physics
What happens when five physics students from four different labs put their heads together?
Alternative Energy Research Initiative (AERI)

New Grant to Fuel Solar Energy Research

24.10.2012
Particle Physics, Environment, Energy, Materials Science, Benefiting Humanity
The Helmsley Charitable Trust will fund joint research between the Weizmann Institute and the Technion
Illustration depicting particle collisions

A New Particle Has Been Discovered – Chances Are, It Is the Higgs Boson

03.07.2012
Particle Physics
The long and complicated journey to detect the Higgs boson, which started with one small step about 25 years ago, might finally have reached its goal...
Dr. Hagar Landsman at the geographical South Pole

Workplace: On the Ice

29.05.2012
Astrophysics, Particle Physics
Work on specialized particle detectors takes Dr. Hagar Landsman from Antarctic ice to Italian underground caves.
Results of a collision that could represent a Higgs boson from the ATLAS experiment

Searching for a Particle

30.01.2012
Particle Physics
Weizmann scientists are hoping to see more conclusive signs of the Higgs boson later this year.
Results of a collision that could represent a Higgs boson from the ATLAS experiment

Weizmann Institute Scientists Make Significant Contributions to LHC Findings

13.12.2011
Particle Physics
Extra events in the probable mass range of the Higgs boson provide first hints for its possible existence.
Before and after images of the Messier 100 Galaxy reveal the appearance of SN 2006X, one of the supernovae used in the study. Photos: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Supernova News

25.08.2011
Astrophysics, Particle Physics
New findings on supernovae are changing our understanding of these exploding stars
Before and after images of the Messier 100 Galaxy reveal the appearance of SN 2006X, one of the supernovae used in the study. Photos: European Southern Observatory (ESO)Before and after images of the Messier 100 Galaxy reveal the appearance of SN 2006X, one of the supernovae used in the study. Photos: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Are Stellar Explosions Created Equal?

22.08.2011
Astrophysics, Particle Physics
Scientists recheck a standard model for supernovae on which cosmic distance measurement is based
(l-r) Ofer Vitells, and Profs. Amos Breskin, Eilam Gross and Ehud Duchovni. Waiting for dark matter

Still at Large: WIMPs

29.06.2011
Particle Physics
A search for possible dark matter candidates has narrowed the possibilities. 
M51 supernova. Photo: Ilan Manulis, Martin Kraar Observatory

Weizmann Institute Observatory Captures Images of a New Supernova

06.06.2011
Astrophysics, Particle Physics
The exploding star, in a galaxy near ours, shows signs of an atypical composition. 

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