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Enhancing Our Understanding of Cell Diversity

Enhancing Our Understanding of Cell Diversity

10.09.2019

Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology, Evolution and Development, Genetics

A new method, developed by Dr. Yonatan Stelzer, uncovered some fateful cellular decisions right at the beginning of embryonic development

Opposite Attraction: Magnets Separate Mirror-Image Crystals

Opposite Attraction: Magnets Separate Mirror-Image Crystals

09.09.2019

Materials Science

The method may be used to purify drugs and numerous other chemicals

cement kiln

Taking into Account a Hebrew Cement Plant

02.09.2019

Dr. Chaim Weizmann played a role in building the country – literally

origami on math day

What We Did this Summer

29.08.2019

Science Teaching

One day in August was dedicated to math for 60 young math lovers

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Bar Sagi Tiling: From Refrigerator Door to Mathematics Journal

26.08.2019

“Proper Self-Similar Triangle Tiling,” a demanding exercise in drawing and coloring, casts a modern light on an ancient problem

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Telling Left from Right by Spinning Them with Light

22.08.2019

Lasers & Optics, Nano Physics, Biochemistry

Using lasers to separate chiral molecules had been predicted - but never before demonstrated

hot water

How Hot Was the Ocean?

19.08.2019

Environment, Climate

Isotopes in iron oxides laid down two billion years ago hold clues to the conditions in which they were created

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Firework Memories

15.08.2019

Brain & Behavior

Weizmann Institute scientists have uncovered a neuronal mechanism central to human free recall

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Next-Gen Israeli Satellite to Seek out Cosmic Explosions and Black Holes

12.08.2019

Space & Physics, Astrophysics

Weizmann Institute of Science and the Israel Space Agency of the Ministry of Science and Technology are heading this international project

diatoms

Survival of the Fewest

08.08.2019

Biochemistry, Viruses & Microorganisms, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate

How do a handful of marine microorganisms live through a major crash?

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