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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/karl-ludwig-kley-receives-weizmann-award-sciences-and-humanities
February 16, 2016
Darmstadt, Germany, and Rehovot, Israel, February 16, 2016 – Merck, a leading science and technology company, announced that the Weizmann Institute conferred the renowned Weizmann Award in the Sciences and Humanities to Karl-Ludwig Kley, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/technology-applications/merck-and-weizmann-institute-sign-new-framework-agreement
February 16, 2016
Darmstadt, Germany, and Rehovot, Israel, February 16, 2016 – Merck, a leading science and technology company, today extended the partnership with Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, by signing a new framework agreement, building on a successful innovation partnership...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/discovery-new-switch-cell-death
February 16, 2016
Cell death – or cells’ refusal to die – is the subject of a great deal of research and a topic that has crucial implications for our health. As reported recently in Nature Communications, Weizmann Institute researchers have now discovered an entirely new mechanism of cell death –...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/protein-clogs-cells-call-plumber
February 22, 2016
In the movie Jack, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Robin Williams plays a boy suffering from progeria, a rare disease in which children age rapidly and usually die before their twelfth birthday – white haired and wrinkled. Scientists study this cruel disease not only because th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/evolutionary-relay-race
February 25, 2016
Which came first? Some time ago, the Weizmann Institute’s Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel got a call from his brother. “You are a scientist,” the brother said, “so you should be able to help me resolve an argument I’ve had with my friends: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” T...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/against-current
February 28, 2016
Can an electric current behave like a viscous fluid? This somewhat peculiar question has recently been addressed by the Weizmann Institute’s Prof. Gregory Falkovich, together with Prof. Leonid Levitov of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Physics textbooks traditionall...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/quantum-memories
March 3, 2016
When you mix cold milk into hot coffee, what happens? There is a bit of swirling, after which you get lukewarm coffee. The energy exchange between cold and hot regions brings the mixture to a new thermal equilibrium at a uniform temperature. Most natural systems we know unde...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/built-bacteria
March 7, 2016
Why is it that when bacteria gather together in large communal groups called biofilms, they gain super resistance to antibiotics? Recent research at the Weizmann Institute of Science provides an unusual explanation for this resistance: the bacteria erect a bone-hard fortress arou...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/people-anxiety-show-fundamental-differences-perception
March 7, 2016
People suffering from anxiety perceive the world in a fundamentally different way than others, according to a study reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on March 3. The research may help explain why certain people are more prone to anxiety. The new study sho...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physicscampus/jerusalem-girls-win-telescope
March 7, 2016
A class of ninth-grade girls from Jerusalem were the winners of this year’s Ilan Ramon Space Olympics for junior high school students. In addition to receiving a telescope for their school, they and the students from the other 11 classes that reached the final round of the compet...
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