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Answering a Question That Has Bugged Ecologists for Decades

03.02.2023

Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate

Researchers have produced the first global estimate of the combined weight of all land insects and related arthropods

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The Protein Wears Prada

26.01.2023

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Technology & Applications, Biotechnology, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs

A new computational method that tracks multiple protein modifications promises to shed new light on unsolved biomedical problems

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Look on the Bright Side of Earth

23.01.2023

Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Environment, Climate

Why do Earth’s hemispheres look equally bright when viewed from space? Weizmann Institute scientists offer a solution to this 50-year-old mystery

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Born Ready for Pressure

18.01.2023

Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology, Evolution and Development

Stress-resilient fish are born that way; their immune system reveals why

An illustration showing four modular enzyme fragments (highlighted) that Weizmann Institute’s CADENZ method can combine to generate active enzymes at a hitherto unseen rate

Building Better Enzymes – by Breaking Them Down

12.01.2023

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Biochemistry, Evolution and Development, Environment, Energy, Plants and Agriculture, Climate, Benefiting Humanity, Biotechnology

In a major step toward greener industry, Weizmann Institute scientists create a computational method for generating enzymes with unprecedented efficiency

Seeing Things Differently: The Secret Life of Our Eyes

Seeing Things Differently: The Secret Life of Our Eyes

26.12.2022

Math & Computer Science, Robotics and Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Brain & Behavior

Tracking our eyes’ motion when we are faced with a visual challenge may help researchers uncover neural encoding in the brain

Electrons on the Run

Electrons on the Run

23.12.2022

Lasers & Optics, Nano Physics, Particle Physics, Quantum Physics

On chirality, tunneling and light fields

Tiny droplets formed by peptides and RNA, viewed under a microscope

Life’s Mysteries Converge in a Droplet

06.12.2022

Organic Chemistry, Evolution and Development

Recreating conditions that may have existed before the dawn of life, researchers watched droplets give rise to possible precursors of today’s proteins

Mucin (magenta) in the inner lining of a mouse colon, viewed under a microscope

Slippery Chaperone: Intestinal Mucus Takes Charge of Copper

01.12.2022

Structural Biology, Biochemistry, Nutrition

Proteins in our “smart slime” take in potentially toxic ions and deliver them safely to cells, Weizmann Institute researchers have shown

Prof. Atan Gross and the Austrian dancer Olivia Hild. Photos: Roya Meydan

A New Scientific Movement

21.11.2022

The Weizmann Institute’s Prof. Atan Gross uses science and dance to inspire researchers – and fight Parkinson’s

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