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The lunar nearside (left) is a contrast between dark (craters) and light (mountains) surfaces that has been fancied as the Man in the Moon. Lunar terrain types are still designated by their 17th century name maria and terra (brighter features also known as uplands or highlands; right). Images by NASA.

Why do We See the Man in the Moon?

12.03.2012

Astrophysics, Planetary Science

Is there a reason why this particular half of the Moon locked with Earth, or was it pure coincidence that it didn’t “turn its back” on us?

Prof. Gideon Schreiber

Meetings in the Cell

11.03.2012

A new technique enables researchers to watch as proteins interact inside living cells

Prof. Yosef Yarden, Dr. Wolfgang Köstler, Amit Zeisel and Prof. Eytan Domany

Production Overshoot

11.03.2012

Space & Physics, Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Genetics

Bits of gene code that are normally discarded have found a surprising new use in research

$Associations between bacterial species in the gut microbiota of “humanized” mice. A spring graph in which nodes correspond to significant relationships between “species”-level, and edges correspond to the top 300 nonlinear relationships. Node size is proportional to the number of these relationships between species relationships, black edges represent relationships explained by diet, and node glow color is proportional to the fraction of adjacent edges that are black (100% is red, 0% is blue)$

Relating to Relationships

05.03.2012

Science Education

From data sets to love – a pair of math students make the connections

Fundamentals of Materials for Energy and Environmental Sustainability

Fundamentals of Materials for Energy and Environmental Sustainability

05.03.2012

Environment, Energy, Materials Science

People, Science Education, Science & Culture

A new textbook presents a comprehensive view of a highly diverse field.

Inauguration of the Weizmann Institute of Science, November 2, 1949

At the Helm

27.02.2012

It was with great sorrow that Dr. Benjamin Marcus Bloch gave up on physics to take on the management of the Daniel Sieff Research Institute at the request of Dr. Chaim Weizmann.

Scientist in the Service of Israel: The Life and Times of Ernst David Bergmann (1903-1975)

The Incorrigible Optimist

27.02.2012

Science & Culture, Time Tunnel

A new biography tells the extraordinary story of the Institute’s first scientific director

Mouse cell lineage tree. Oocytes are in red, bone marrow stem cells in yellow, demonstrating that the two form separate clusters with only a distant relationship

Lineage Trees Reveal Cells’ Histories

23.02.2012

Biochemistry, Stem Cells, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

A new method is helping to resolve controversies and answer some open questions in biology.

Neuron cover

A Unique ON-OFF Switch for the Stress Response

23.02.2012

Brain & Behavior, Molecular and Cell Biology

Both parts of the mechanism – ON and OFF receptors – are encoded in the same gene.

European Integrated Structural Biology Infrastructure Launching

European Integrated Structural Biology Infrastructure Launching

23.02.2012

Biochemistry, Structural Biology

Science Education

The Weizmann Institute is one of seven Instruct Core Centres

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The Weizmann Institute of Science Ranked among the World’s Top Ten Academic Institutions

A Discovery to Set Your Heart a-Knocking

Navigating the Digestive Tract