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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cells-your-liking
October 1, 2003
Though the piano keyboard consists of only 88 keys, it can produce infinite melodies. Similarly, only five communication pathways, generating any one of a vast array of combinations, determine the future of each embryonic cell (whether it will evolve into a muscle or blo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/opening-gates
January 1, 2002
In biblical times, the gate was the most vulnerable point of a walled city. Thus judges were placed there to interview travelers, to ensure that their presence was welcome. The same is true of the gates to the cell’s inner sanctum – the nuc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/atoms-dark
January 1, 2002
Humans can only be human. Atoms, on the other hand, can change form dramatically. At times they are particles. But at other times, particularly when there are relatively few of them around, they may behave as waves, existing in many places...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/ninth-dimension
September 1, 2002
Be it sunny or overcast, at a candlelit dinner or a picnic, you will recognize a familiar face. The intensity or direction of the light will rarely influence recognition, which is quick and natural to us thanks to a powerful mechanism:...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/visual-window-space-and-time
January 1, 2002
Whether spellbinding or tedious, a video film seems like a simple sequence of pictures. Yet it encompasses often-overlooked spatial and temporal information. Dr. Michal Irani of the Weizmann Institute's Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department develops advanced methods...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/secrets-third-harmony
January 1, 2002
Prof. Yaron Silberberg, the Head of the Weizmann Institute’s Physics of Complex Systems Department, has a vision: to take a penetrating look inside the most minuscule of objects. He is attempting to do this by manipulating light.Silberbe...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/chemistry-vision
January 1, 2002
A photon, a particle of light emitted into space by the sun at the speed of light, reaches the earth in four and a half minutes at the most. Here, with many of its fellows, it may hit the petal of a wild yellow chrysanthemum. Most photons landing on the flower are absorbed into i...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/light-harvesting
January 1, 2002
Chlorophyll molecules have been selected by nature over billions of years of evolution to help plants and certain bacteria utilize sunlight to drive the production of carbohydrates. Prof. Avigdor Scherz of the Weizmann Institute’s Plant Sciences Department and Prof. Yoram Salomo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/eye-beholder
January 1, 2002
What happens in our brains while listening to music or deciphering dual optical illusions, like the one illustrated above? Prof. Amiram Grinvald and his research team at the Weizmann Institute’s Neurobiology Department have directly ob...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/campus-0
September 2, 2010
On Time, On Budget He came to the Weizmann Institute in 1960 because, like him, it was just starting out. “I thought I could grow with it,” says Abraham Dines, Head of the Construction and Physical Plant Maintenance Division. Dines...
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