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Sudden Climate Warming Took Place in Africa 2,000 Years Ago, Weizmann Institute Study Reveals

Sudden Climate Warming Took Place in Africa 2,000 Years Ago, Weizmann Institute Study Reveals

14.08.1998
Environment
REHOVOT, Israel - August 14, 1998 -A sudden warming of climate lasting several centuries took place in equatorial Africa some 2,000 years ago, according to a new study reported by a Weizmann Institute-led team in the August 14 issue of Science.  
Laub International Science Youth Village

A Summer of Discovery for Budding Scientists from Around the World

14.07.1998
By Erica Zeitlin  
Innovative Treatment Enables Paralyzed Rats to Regain Partial Use of Their Hind Legs

Innovative Treatment Enables Paralyzed Rats to Regain Partial Use of Their Hind Legs

30.06.1998
Brain & Behavior
REHOVOT, Israel -- June 30, 1998 -- Weizmann Institute scientists have managed to partially heal the damaged spinal cords of laboratory animals, according to a study reported in the July issue of Nature Medicine. A team led by Prof. Michal Schwartz of the Neurobiology Department used an innovative treatment which allowed rats to regain partial movement in their hind legs that had been paralyzed by damage to the spine.
Feinberg Graduate School

Feinberg Graduate School Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary

12.06.1998
Science Teaching
By Nofit Milstein
Israel's national tutoring program dubbed Perach

Flower Power: National Tutoring Program Helps Disadvantaged Pupils Blossom

07.05.1998
By Nofit Milstein   REHOVOT, Israel - May 7, 1998 - Mix one party-loving, fun-seeking Israeli college student with one 12-year-old, newly-arrived Russian immigrant. Add one disadvantaged child whose father is in jail or an Ethiopian girl living in a cramped, shabby trailer who has never seen a movie nor splashed freely with other children in a cool blue pool. Repeat at least twice a week for 12 months. Watch mixture mature and become almost inseparable.  
Superconductivity

Superconductivity "Gutterballs"

01.05.1998
With electricity such a familiar part of our lives, measuring the electric current that flows through a material sounds fairly old hat. Yet Weizmann Institute scientists have made a surprising new discovery related to the behavior of electric currents in materials known as superconductors, whose resistance to the flow of electricity is exceedingly low.
Clusters, Computers and the Human Brain

Clusters, Computers and the Human Brain

01.05.1998
Math & Computer Science
How does our brain cope with the enormous flux of information that bombards our senses? One important neural strategy is the ability to "cluster," or categorize, data and thus make sense of the world around us.
Antibodies Know Right From Left

Antibodies Know Right From Left

01.05.1998
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics
Knowing right from left is essential in many areas of life - even on the molecular level. Prof. Meir Wilchek of the Weizmann Institute's Biological Chemistry Department, working with an international team of researchers, has now discovered that this ability is particularly prominent in antibodies, the Y-shaped proteins produced by the immune system.
Prof. David Wallach

1997 Teva Founders Prize To Weizmann Institute's Prof. David Wallach

22.03.1998
REHOVOT, Israel - March 22, 1998 - Prof. David Wallach of the Weizmann Institute of Science's Biological Chemistry Department has been awarded the 1997 Teva Founders Prize.  
Sales of Products Emanating from Weizmann Institute Research - $600 million in 1997

Sales of Products Emanating from Weizmann Institute Research - $600 million in 1997

19.03.1998
Technology & Applications
REHOVOT, Israel - March 19, 1998 - Approximately $600 million worth of products emanating from research at the Weizmann Institute of Science were sold by Israeli and non-Israeli companies in 1997. Israeli companies were responsible for half of these sales, mainly for export. These figures derive from a survey conducted by the Tel Aviv-based accounting firm Kost Levary & Forer, a member of Ernst & Young International.

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