https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/les-premiers-diplômés-du-programme-rothschild-weizmann-pour-l’excellence-dans-l’enseignement-des
November 2, 2011
Science Tips | Full Press Release List >> 02-11-2011 Vingt-six professeurs du secondaire qui ont participé au programme Rothschild-Weizmann d’excellence dans l’enseignement des sciences recevront bientôt le diplôme de master qui leur sera remis par la...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/divine-secrets-ant-sisterhood
November 28, 2011
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed,” wrote Darwin. Ants, a family that has...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/what-makes-grid
November 29, 2011
The brain contains a unique set of cells that fire in perfect hexagonal spatial arrays. Since these “grid cells” were discovered in rats in 2005, scientists have been trying to figure out what produces this unusual hexagonal firing pattern. They may now be close to...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/architect’s-life
December 7, 2011
There is no architect more identified with the Weizmann Institute than Erich Mendelsohn. Though he designed only four of the over 100 buildings on the campus, he left his indelible mark both on the Weizmann Institute and on Israeli architecture. His first building in Israel – a h...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/potential-renewal
December 7, 2011
The potential of embryonic stem cells is almost unimaginably huge. From one undifferentiated cell, an entire organism composed of diverse and widely varied tissues and organs is created. Now, scientists are looking to ex...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/slow-bonds
December 14, 2011
We know that water is essential for life. But the scientists studying life’s processes tend to ignore the water, treating it, at best, as the fluid in which everything floats. That is mainly because water mole...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/stem-cell-phone-home
December 18, 2011
In the medicine of the future, stem cells promise to regenerate organs in the diseased body. They might, for example, help repair a malfunctioning heart muscle or replace the brain cells lost to stroke or Parkinson’s disease. But to turn this vision into reality,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics-made-institute-/out-universe-atom
December 25, 2011
Part 1: 1949 - 1975 Part 2: 1976 - 1993 Part 3: 1994 - 1999 Part 4: 2000 - 2010...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/unraveling-batten-disease-0
January 5, 2012
Waste management is a big issue anywhere, but at the cellular level it can be a matter of life and death. A Weizmann Institute study, published in the Journal of Cell Biology, has reveal...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/placing-smell
January 4, 2012
Certain smells cause us pleasure or disgust – this might seem to be a matter of personal idiosyncrasy. But new research at the Weizmann Institute shows that odors can be rated on a scale of pleasantness, and th...