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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teachingcampus/math-movies
November 24, 2013
Life is not like the movies. Or is it? A group of math teachers is finding that watching films can have a positive effect on their real-life classroom style. Filmed lectures are already a staple for many students, but the Weizmann Ins...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-made-institute/life-science
November 26, 2013
Ora (Katz) Kedem made aliyah to Israel with her parents in November 1940, arriving on the last ship allowed to leave German-controlled Austria. But the ship was intercepted by the British blockade against Jewish immigration to the country, and passengers were transferred to anoth...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/gut-response
December 3, 2013
We are all told that if we eat healthy foods, we’ll be healthy. The problem with this global statement is that each body processes food differently – different people can have vastly dissimilar responses to the same fare. One person can subsist on fatty...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/atoms-take-bath
January 1, 2014
The laws of thermodynamics – the basic laws of energy exchange in physical systems – apply to all machinery. Until now, most physicists would have said that a machine built of a sin...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/second-generation
January 1, 2014
“I just want to make it clear that I had nothing to do with my son’s decision to come here; that was completely his own choice,” says Dr. Harry Towbin. Towbin, recently retired from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, completed his PhD at the Weizmann In...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/taking-flight
January 7, 2014
When Dr. Michael Yartsev first got in touch with his soon-to-be mentor Dr. Nachum Ulanovsky, it was because he wanted to inquire about Ulanovsky’s own former PhD adviser, as he was thinking of applying for a PhD position in that adviser’s lab. But when Ulano...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/liquid-phase
January 7, 2014
When we lose something, its memory can stay with us, granting the object an ephemeral existence. We know this psychologically and even physiologically – for instance, in the phenomenon of phantom pain from an amputated limb. But in the material world of a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/beneath-surface
January 1, 2014
When two unique insulating materials are layered one on top of the other in a “sandwich,” something truly unexpected can occur: A very thin “filling” may appear at the interface between them that is able to conduct electricity. That conducting interface make...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/sing-song-science
January 1, 2014
Who would hold a passport from a country that exists only in the dimension of time? What does running a 217 km ultra-marathon have to do with the biological clocks ticking in our bodies? Is time travel possible? And the question...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/molecules-tip-their-hands
January 16, 2014
To understand the new finding arising from a recent collaboration between scientists at the Weizmann Institute and researchers in Germany, one must go back in time. First, one needs to go back to 1847, the year Louis Pasteur discovered that tartaric acid...
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