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the smell of fear: skydivers

Autism and the Smell of Fear

27.11.2017

Brain & Behavior

Odors that carry social cues seem to affect volunteers on the autism spectrum differently

Google Earth map displaying storm tracks in the North Atlantic region

Off Track: How Storms Will Veer in a Warmer World

13.11.2017

Planetary Science, Climate

Weizmann Institute of Science research uncovers the internal mechanisms driving storms toward the poles

artist's illustration: merging neutron stars

Crashing Neutron Stars Observed for the First Time

16.10.2017

Astrophysics, Theoretical Physics

Weizmann Institute scientists help confirm and analyze the star merger

Designed and experimental antibody

Spare Parts Might “Jump-Start” Protein Design

26.09.2017

Biochemistry, Systems Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Including “non-ideal” components in the designs may be key to functional artificial proteins

Bacteria in cancer cells

How Bacteria Hinder Chemotherapy

20.09.2017

Cancer, Personalized Medicine, Systems Biology, Viruses & Microorganisms, Molecular and Cell Biology, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics

Scientists find bacteria in pancreatic tumors that metabolize a common drug

The ions in the center of the cluster are cooled to the lowest temperatures, and can then be further accelerated in the ion beam trap

Colder and Colder

18.09.2017

Particle Physics, Quantum Physics

An original method of cooling ions could have new and interesting uses

Humans and fish share about 70% of their protein-coding genes, but only about 0.5% of their regulatory long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs)

Genomic Recycling: Ancestral Genes Take On New Roles

18.09.2017

Systems Biology, Evolution and Development, Genetics

How some genes lost the ability to make proteins - and gained regulatory powers

Cancerous tumor tissue under a microscope:

Altitude Training for Cancer-Fighting Cells

18.09.2017

Cancer, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology

Oxygen starvation could toughen up immune T cells for cancer immunotherapy

wavy trajectory

The Breaking Point

23.08.2017

Materials Science

What happens at the moving edge of crack?

filaments

Lego Proteins Revealed

23.08.2017

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology, Evolution and Development, Nanoscience, Structural Biology

Self-assembling protein complexes based on a single mutation could provide scaffolding for nanostructures

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