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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/campus-/chinese-teens-institute
July 21, 2014
P Nineteen Chinese students, each of whom achieved top scores in competitive tests, had an opportunity to visit Israel for ten days of science, sight-seeing and fun. They were hosted by the Weizmann Institute of Science, where they participated in a camp for scienc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/cellular-senior-moments
July 21, 2014
Aged cells, just like aged humans, have memory issues, according to a new study at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Insights gained by the study of a particular form of cellular memory may shed new light on the development of cancer and on the use of stem cell...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/someone-operate-it-and-place-put-it
August 3, 2014
Danon and Marikovsky On January first, 1955, two new employees showed up at the Weizmann Institute. The two were fresh out of the air force, having served at the Tel Nof air base near Rehovo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/contacts
August 3, 2014
Every country has borders and – no less important – border crossings where goods and people can enter and leave. In the world of the cell, the cellular organelles act like little independent states: each conducting its specialized, vital processes within its bor...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-cells-feel-stretch
August 14, 2014
As our blood vessels pulsate with each heartbeat or our lungs inflate, the cells in these vessels and organs stretch as well. Such cells, which sense rhythmic fluctuations in force, have been found to neatly align at a very uniform angle. But how do they kno...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/where-two-paths-meet
September 1, 2014
With modern maps, we can zoom out to a region’s entire road system or zoom in to distinguish the streets leading from one particular point to another. Somewhere in the middle of our zooming we might note the pattern of roads connecting neighboring cities that...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/scanners’-story
September 2, 2014
Once upon a time, before the days of computers on every desktop and in every bag, there were scanners. These were people, up to twenty at a time, who worked at scanni...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/curiosity-and-constraint
September 22, 2014
Put a young child in a new playground and she may take a while to start playing – approaching the slide and then running back to Mom before finally stepping on. A new model suggests that it is not fear that makes her run back and forth, but simply the fact that h...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/sending-mixed-message
September 22, 2014
In Alice in Wonderland, one side of the mushroom made her shrink, while the other side of the same mushroom made her grow. Alice may have been confused by this, but a similar paradox is often evident in biology: The same molecule can have completely opposite effects on the c...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/soup-life
October 27, 2014
27-10-2014 Visitors to a recent Tel Aviv art exhibit found themselves in an interactive “lab” in which three containers held the “raw materials of life” in three primary colors: red, green and blue. The hand pumps on the containers led, through hoses, to a cover...
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