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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/self-organizing-clouds
February 1, 2011
The low rain clouds known as marine stratocumulus are generally found off the west coast of continents along the subtropical belts, sometimes extending for thousands of kilometers over the oceans. They form amazingly organized systems. Satellite images of these cloud systems reve...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/how-catch-molecule
February 1, 2011
Can electronic components be the size of a single molecule? If such molecular components are incorporated into electronic devices, will they function like scaled-down versions of large...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/why-fish-scales-shine
February 1, 2011
How do fish get their shimmering, iridescent scales? It’s a question that has intrigued scientists for centuries. Ro...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-way-reprogram-cells
February 1, 2011
Stem cells are like the proverbial fountain of youth – an elixir that might one day repair hard-used, damaged heart muscle or stop degenerative diseases. But reality still falls far...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/lab-ocean
February 1, 2011
Phytoplankton – plant-like single-celled organisms that float in water – are vital to the health of the planet, according to Dr. Assaf Vardi, who recently...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/springing-leaks
February 1, 2011
Cell suicide is a widespread phenomenon. When a cell is worn out, used up or irreparably damaged, or if changes in its DNA threaten to turn the cell cancerous, a special cellul...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/molecular-frisbee
February 14, 2011
For Frisbee players, finessing the tilt of the spinning disc is crucial for directing it into a pair of waiting hands. Prof. Ilya Averbukh and research student Erez Gershnabel of the Chemical Physics Department in the Faculty of Chemistry applied a similar principle...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/taking-quantum-particles’-temperature
February 14, 2011
“In the everyday world, energy must be directly pumped into an object if we want to heat it. But for such quantum-sized objects as atoms or atomic nuclei, all one has to do is ‘take their temperature’,” says Prof. Gershon Kurizki of the Institute’s Chemical Physics Department in...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/fat-chance-health
March 7, 2011
We all care about having healthy levels of cholesterol and other fats in our blood, but our blood vessels themselves don’t seem to care. Even when plaques of fat threaten to block the flow of blood, the vessels fail to respond to the danger, when they might, for instance,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/micro-control-insulin
February 17, 2011
The water came and extinguished the fire that burned the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the goat that father bought for two zuzim. – Had Gadya (from the Passover Haggada) According to Dr. Eran Hornstein of the Molecular Genetics Departme...
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