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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/art-compromise
May 1, 2006
Scientists have confirmed what many suspected all along: We live in an imperfect world, filled with less-than-ideal choices. For example, in computing the solution to a problem with a large number of parts, we're forced to choose between efficient computation and...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/spin-control
May 1, 2006
Quantum computers might have the ability to work millions of times faster than today’s computers. For this reason, scientists around the world cherish the dream of creating practical quantum computers, even though no one is quite sure the undertaking is really fe...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/scientific-archaeology/preserved-crystal
May 1, 2006
Weizmann Institute scientists recently discovered a new source of well-preserved ancient DNA in fossil bones. Their findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Fossil DNA is a potential source of information on the evolution, popul...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/time-tunnel/time-tunnel-3
May 1, 2006
70 Years Ago "‘Harnessing’ the Sun - Daniel Sieff Institute," by a Scientific correspondent The Palestine Post, March 27, 1936 The Sieff Institute is fortunate in having as its director a man who is only the less known as a chemist because he is so distingui...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teachingcampus/learning-skills-science-–-weizmann-leads-way
May 1, 2006
How many teenagers love studying science or reading scientific papers and texts? Probably very few, since most youngsters find subjects like chemistry and physics daunting, even intimidating. A Weizmann Institute educational program that fosters skills for tackling...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/science-seizures
May 1, 2006
One day, on rounds with a chief physician, Prof. Tallie Z. Baram - then a medical resident - was told to inject a hormone, ACTH, into an infant suffering from a particular form of infant epilepsy. "Why do I give this to a baby with epilepsy?" she asked. The answe...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/where-does-mass-come
August 30, 2010
Understanding how particles – say, electrons – get their mass is a challenge for physicists. The Standard Model says that all fundamental particles – for instance, the electron or the “W” and “Z” particles that carry the electroweak force – owe their mass to another p...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/will-quantum-physics-revolutionize-digital-world
August 30, 2010
As large objects, we’re limited to existing in one place, and one state, at a time. Quantum particles have a much more interesting existence: According to quantum theory, they can be in different places, in different states, doing different things – all at the same time...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/how-can-we-get-know-single-photon-atom-or-molecule
August 30, 2010
Particles or molecules, like people, appear differently when seen as individuals rather than as part of a group. Identical protein molecules, for instance, can have idiosyncratic pathways of folding. Only by looking at them one at a time can one...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/can-biology-teach-us-design-better-materials
August 30, 2010
When Joyce Kilmer wrote “I think that I shall never see/ A poem lovely as a tree,” she might have been speaking for scientists. Nature still outshines us when it comes to elegance of design; and it still knows how to do things we don’t – including things that sho...
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