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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching/artificial-intelligence-systems-developed-high-school-students
May 1, 1993
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can analyze and support decision-making processes in areas ranging from eye ailments and contagious diseases to Red Sea fish and air force missions have been created by Israeli high school students taking part in an experimental curriculu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/library-without-walls
October 1, 1992
What's the best way to synthesize nitrobenzene? Which granting agencies are likely to support research in number theory? Which American companies produce gold-plated wave guides for a new device that involves microwaves? Thanks to a major expansion of library-user s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/hope-early-diagnosis-dread-autoimmune-disease
May 1, 1993
Weizmann Institute researchers have identified the specific elements of a muscle receptor protein attacked by the immune system in myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease in which communication between nerves and muscles breaks down. In this presently incurable ill...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/immune-system-decline-elderly-probed
May 1, 1993
Immune system deterioration in the elderly, commonly believed to be a primary function of thymus gland shriveling with age, has now been linked to aging bone marrow cells as well. This finding of Prof. Amiela Globerson of the Institute's Department of Cell Biology i...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/interview-prof-yadin-dudai
May 1, 1993
Q: How do you see the future of biological research at the Weizmann Institute? A: I think there will be major changes because biological research is at a turning point. We must consider restructuring the life sciences at Weizmann in order to avoid stagnation and adjust...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/moon-tug-giant-accelerator-detected
May 1, 1993
Late last year, physicists at the giant LEP accelerator in the 18-nation European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) near Geneva began furrowing their brows. The four experiments set up around the 27-kilometer-long LEP tunnel had reported their values of the mass of Z°, one o...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/immigrant-knowhow-creates-new-products
October 1, 1992
A scale that weighs objects in motion, a novel electro-optical device to control the amount of light passing through it and an instrument for measuring the freshness of dairy products -- development of such hi-tech ventures is providing immediate employment to some 25 immigrant s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/weizmann-institute-mourns-scientists-and-supporters
May 1, 1993
Prof. Sabin The global Weizmann Institute family has lost some of its most prominent and creative leaders in recent months. Prof. Albert Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine and world-famous virologist, was the fourth President of Weiz...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/closer-links-industry
May 1, 1993
The Yeda Research & Development Company, last year received a record $12m. in royalties and research grants from industry, a clear indication of its increasingly successful efforts to commercialize Weizmann Institute research. A significant part of this sum, in turn, was used...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/cutting-custom-designed-diamonds
May 1, 1992
Improved methods developed by Institute Prof. Yehiam Prior for sawing diamonds with lasers may lead to the eventual automation of the entire industry and to routine production of unusually shaped, custom-designed diamonds. The advance overcomes a key obstacle that has until now p...
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