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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/super-supernovae
May 24, 2012
by Dr. Avishay Gal-Yam In the middle of 2005, the Keck Observatory, on Hawaii’s Mount Mauna Kea, upgraded its giant twin telescopes. By automatically correcting for atmospheric turbulence, the telescopes could now produce images as sharp as those from the H...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/workplace-ice
May 29, 2012
Dr. Hagar Landsman (Peles) smiles when she talks about Antarctica – the featureless landscape, the - 40°C temperatures in summer, the relentless midnight sun. “It’s a very...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/taking-stock-calcium
May 29, 2012
Calcium is one of the most regulated minerals in the human body. That may be because so many important cellular processes rely on calcium ions: cell growth, neural signaling, musc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/interface-magazine-app-ipad-and-android
June 21, 2012
Interface – An Online Friendly Science Magazine, is an easy-to-read quarterly magazine geared toward the general public, featuring cutting-edge news and discoveries from the Weizmann Institute of Science, including a diverse range of topics, from cancer to gene...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/pairs
June 11, 2012
Imagine sorting a pile of thousands of unmatched socks into pairs. Now imagine those pairs are microscopic. That begins to approach the challenge fac...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/slings-and-arrows-outrageous-cellular-fortune
June 11, 2012
To die or not to die: That is the question all living cells face at some point in their lives. How this dilemma is ultimately resolved can have crucial consequences for our health. When cancer cells refuse to die, having developed a resistance to drugs, chemotherapy b...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/shine-light
June 11, 2012
11-06-2012 Dr. Ofer Yizhar, who recently joined the Weizmann Institute’s Neurobiology Department, plans to shed light – literally – on the workings of the brain. In his new...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/time-tunnel/family-trials
June 18, 2012
“Whatever happens, I shall be well off,” Rachel Leah, Dr. Chaim Weizmann’s mother, used to say. She implied that if communism succeeded, the family would continue living in Russia with her son Shmuel, the “revolutionary”; and if Zionism succeeded, they would move to Palestin...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/sense-size
July 17, 2012
How does a cell sense its own size? That question becomes especially significant when the cell is large: a human peripheral neuron, for example, which can grow extensions reaching up to a meter in length – some 20,000 times the cell body’s diameter. Without some bas...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/helpful-bacteria-harmful-viruses
July 17, 2012
Despite their bad rap, bacteria can actually be quite helpful. In fact, there are about 10 times as many bacteria in the human gut as there are cells in the body, and evidence is mounting tha...
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