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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/sperm-“see”-it-hot
October 24, 2015
In their arduous journey to the egg, sperm “feel” the heat of the fallopian tube and “taste” the chemical signals of the ova. But a new Weizmann Institute study published in Scientific Reports shows that sperm actually make quite a bit of use of sensors that have mainly been know...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/technology/tapping-particles-light
November 24, 2015
At the Weizmann Institute of Science, researchers have managed to “pluck” a single photon – one particle of light – out of a pulse of light. The findings of this research, which appeared this week in Nature Photonics, bear both fundamental and practical significance: Light is the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/bialik-taxi-stand
September 30, 2015
In the fifth decade of his life, Yehuda began to write poems. “A poet I got,” said Sara. “He still hasn’t learned to earn living. But to write poetry? That he can do. Write some lyrics for the bank manager. Maybe he’ll extend the overdraft.” His taxi would stand on the corner of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/homebody-rna
January 1, 2016
Like the swift and loyal messenger who rushes to deliver the king’s missive in a fairy tale, a string of RNA called messenger RNA, or mRNA, appears in the oft-told story of the living cell. This RNA, copied from the DNA in a gene, had been thought to be immediately sent from the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/your-symptoms-evolution’s-way-telling-you-stay-home
January 7, 2016
When you have a fever, your nose is stuffed and your headache is spreading to your toes, your body is telling you to stay home in bed. Feeling sick is an evolutionary adaptation according to a hypothesis put forward by Prof. Guy Shakhar of the Weizmann Institute’s Immunology Depa...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/israeli-instrument-bound-jupiter
January 7, 2016
Sometime in the year 2030, if all goes according to plan, some dozen groups around the world will begin receiving unique data streams sent from just above the planet Jupiter. Their instruments, which will include a device designed and constructed in Israel, will arrive there aboa...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/tiny-“flasks”-speed-chemical-reactions
January 7, 2016
Miniature self-assembling “flasks” created at the Weizmann Institute may prove a useful tool in research and industry. The nanoflasks, which have a span of several nanometers, or millionths of a millimeter, can accelerate chemical reactions for research. In the future, they might...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/gallery/beauty-science-3
December 30, 2015
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December 30, 2015
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