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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...
NMR - The Movie

NMR - The Movie

24.02.2003
Space & Physics, Chemistry
Ten construction workers will often get a job done faster than one.  But in digging a deep well, for instance, ten workers are a waste of human...
Radiation-Resistant Organism Reveals Its Defense Strategies

Radiation-Resistant Organism Reveals Its Defense Strategies

09.01.2003
Space & Physics, Viruses & Microorganisms, Organic Chemistry
The secret to its strength is a ring   Weizmann Institute scientists have found what makes the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans the most...
Simulation of a collision between two stars. Simulations by Dr. Tal Alexander, Weizmann Institute of Science

Zooming Star Points to Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

16.10.2002
Astrophysics
The scientists tracked, for the first time, a star completing an orbit around a known unusual source of radiation (a black hole candidate) in the...
Dr. Vladimir Umansky, Prof. Moty Heiblum, Dr. Yungchul Chung, and Dr. Diana Mahalu. Negotiating skills

The Physics of Bargaining

01.10.2002
Particle Physics
What hidden logic allows nature to bend its own rules?
Left: One sting divides into two. Right: two strings unite

Pulling the Strings

01.10.2002
Particle Physics, Theoretical Physics
String theory is music to physicists' ears
Prof. Eli Waxman

A Window of Opportunity in the Sky

01.05.2002
Astrophysics, Particle Physics
Particle detectors twice the size of the Eiffel Tower sunk deep in the Antarctic ice may be the next frontier in space exploration
Dr. Michael Elbaum

Opening the Gates

01.01.2002
Space & Physics, Life Sciences, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Genetics, Materials Science
Dr. Michael Elbaum of the Weizmann Institute’s Material and Interfaces Department studies the passage of molecules through the  cell’s...
Dr. Nir Davidson

Atoms in the Dark

01.01.2002
Particle Physics
What precisely happens when an atom sheds its particle form and changes into a wavy guise? When does this happen and why? These basic questions, at...

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Dr. Omer Kneller (left) and Chen Mor direct a laser beam before it enters the experimental setup. The experiment required a powerful laser beam that could produce exceptionally short, attosecond light pulses. Photo: Noa Yaffe

Matter at the Crossroads

Staphylococcus bacteria

New Immune Mechanism Revealed in the Cellular Trash

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When Proteins Go on Strike

Mouse heart tissue viewed under a microscope

A Broken Heart: Two Types of Scars, Two Paths to Healing

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