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(l-r) Dr. Ariel Livne, Prof. Benjamin Geiger and Dr. Eran Bouchbiner

How Cells Feel the Stretch

14.08.2014
Space & Physics, Molecular and Cell Biology, Chemistry
To understand how cells orient themselves, Weizmann Institute researchers turned to a model from physics
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 & Applications
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  
Dr. Yaniv Ziv

Remembering in Time

21.07.2014
Lasers & Optics, Brain & Behavior
Dr. Yaniv Ziv want to know how our brain keeps memories of individual events in order
llustration of the photonic router the Weizmann Institute scientists created. At the center is the single atom (orange) that routes photons (yellow) in different directions

The World’s First Photonic Router

14.07.2014
Quantum Physics
Weizmann Institute scientists take another step down the long road toward quantum computers  
Convective clouds forming over the Amazon in a blanket smoke. Image: Prof. Ilan Koren

No Limits to Human Effects on Clouds

08.06.2014
Planetary Science, Environment, Climate
Weizmann Institute research shows how atmospheric particles affect cloud formation in real time  
Running muscles may be predominantly fast- or slow-twitch

Completing the Metabolite Picture

27.05.2014
Particle Physics, Chemistry, Technology & Applications
A new MRI-based method can detect metabolite levels in real time
UGC 9379 galaxy imaged in the Sloan digital sky survey before the supernova explosion (left) and by the Palomar Observatory robotic telescope and by the Palomar Observatory robotic telescope afterward (right)

Blowing in the (Stellar) Wind

21.05.2014
Astrophysics, Particle Physics
Researchers analyze the elements emitted from an unusual star just before it exploded  
William Levine (center), a prominent American diamond merchant, inspecting gemprints during his visit to the Weizmann Institute in 1974, with Prof. Shmuel Shtrikman (left) and Dr. Charles Bar-Isaac (right)

The Fingerprint of a Diamond

19.05.2014
Lasers & Optics, Technology & Applications
Dr. Charles Bar-Isaac turned his fascination with diamonds’ brilliance into a method of identifying individual stones

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