Space & Physics

Dr. Einat Aharonov

Earth's Innermost Secrets

01.11.2003

Space & Physics, Environment, Math & Computer Science

Computer models can provide a better understanding of water and lava flow within the earth

Dr. Ernesto Joselevich

Tiny Giants

01.11.2003

Nano Physics, Nanoscience, Materials Science

Computer chips made of nanotubes could be a 100 times smaller and faster than those of today

Prof. Yosef Yomdin

The Universe, Step by Step

01.11.2003

Space & Physics, Planetary Science, Mathematics

Working out a small problem can help us understand the laws and properties of the universe

(l-r) Graduate student Alexandre Kozlov, Prof. Zeev Fraenkel, Prof. Itzhak Tserruya, Dr. Ilia Ravinovich, and graduate student Alexander Cherlin. An international experiment

After the Big Bang

01.10.2003

Particle Physics

What did the Universe look like in its first millionth of a second? Scientists may have an answer

Multi-National Team of Physicists, Including Weizmann Institute Scientists:

Multi-National Team of Physicists, Including Weizmann Institute Scientists:

12.06.2003

Particle Physics

"Promising indications that we may have succeeded in reproducing matter as it first appeared in the universe right after the Big Bang" ...

Bring On the Rain

Bring On the Rain

01.05.2003

Space & Physics, Climate

A new formula for predicting rain factors in whirling droplets

Stars pulled into the crowded perimeter of a supermassive black hole sometimes collide. Simulation of a collision between two stars.

Riding a Black Hole

01.05.2003

A ten-year study suggest the mass at the center of the Milky way is a supermassive black hole

Deinococcus radiodurans

Lord of the Ring

01.05.2003

Space & Physics, Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Plants and Agriculture, Organic Chemistry, Structural Biology

What gives a bacterium the ability to withstand 3000 times more radiation than humans?

Experiment May Help Size Up Neutrinos

Experiment May Help Size Up Neutrinos

01.03.2003

Particle Physics

Our planet is bombarded every second with a large number of chargeless, seemingly massless, particles that originate in nuclear fusion reactions that...

First Sightings of Individual Proteins as They Fold

First Sightings of Individual Proteins as They Fold

01.03.2003

Space & Physics, Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Proteins, it appears, have taken Frank Sinatra's "I Did It My Way" close to heart. A new study published in the current issue of Proceedings of the...

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