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Weizmann Institute of Science and Max Planck Society Create a Joint Postdoctoral Program

Weizmann Institute of Science and Max Planck Society Create a Joint Postdoctoral Program

23.05.2023
Benefiting Humanity
The goal: to nurture a new generation of scientists by enabling them to embark on a four-year scientific exploration at the two institutions
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Plant Research Reaches a New High

01.05.2023
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Evolution and Development, Plants and Agriculture
Weizmann scientists revealed the step-by-step production of cannabinoids in a South African plant, pointing to new ways of manufacturing them for medical use
Decades-Old Mystery of Red Blood Cell Production Finally Solved

Decades-Old Mystery of Red Blood Cell Production Finally Solved

27.04.2023
Stem Cells, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
Identifying the cells producing the hormone EPO may lead to the development of new therapies for treating anemia resulting from kidney disease and other conditions
Illustration showing the unmanned spacecraft JUICE in the vicinity of Jupiter (center). On the right: the moons Callisto and Europa; on the left: Ganymede and Io (yellow), Jupiter’s volcanically active moon that is not included in the mission’s core program (Courtesy of the ESA)

Across the Universe: Israeli Tech to Reach Deep Space for the First Time

13.04.2023
Space & Physics, Astrophysics, Planetary Science
The Ultra Stable Oscillator, designed for an experiment led by Weizmann Institute scientists, is at the forefront of ESA’s JUICE mission to Jupiter
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Treating a Heart Attack before It Happens

08.03.2023
Stem Cells, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
A preventive procedure, performed on healthy mice, improved their recovery from later-occurring cardiac injury, reshaping our knowledge of regeneration in hearts – and possibly other organs
Heavy imbalance: The biomass of humans, livestock, pets and wild mammals (Illustration: Itai Raveh)

The Weight of Responsibility: Biomass of Livestock Dwarfs That of Wild Mammals

27.02.2023
Nutrition, Environment, Plants and Agriculture, Climate
Wild land mammals weigh less than 10 percent of the combined weight of humans and are outweighed by cattle and other domesticated mammals by a factor of 30 
Close-up diagram of the quantum twisting microscope in action. Electrons tunnel from the probe (inverted pyramid at the top) to the sample (bottom) in several places at once (green vertical lines), in a quantum coherent manner

The Quantum Twisting Microscope: A New Lens on Quantum Materials

22.02.2023
Nano Physics, Particle Physics, Quantum Physics, Theoretical Physics
A clever take on the science of twistronics offers new ways of exploring quantum phenomena
ULTRASAT

NASA to Launch Israel’s First Space Telescope Mission, ULTRASAT

21.02.2023
Space & Physics, Astrophysics, Planetary Science
A Weizmann Institute of Science and Israel Space Agency flagship, the instrument will enter orbit in 2025; it’s expected to revolutionize research of the universe
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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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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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