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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/straight-gut
June 16, 2016
Cells in a developing embryo undergo dozens of rounds of division in a very short period, differentiating each time into new cell types and migrating to new areas of the body. The Weizmann Institute’s Dr. Karina Yaniv explains that one can illustrate this with a tree: The further...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-israel-pecht-4
June 16, 2016
Prof. Israel Pecht was elected a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/molecule-holds-key
July 4, 2016
Fans of the spy genre will be familiar with letters written in invisible ink or the Enigma machine the Germans used in WWII to transmit secret messages to the front. Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have now designed a method that combines secret writing with Enigma-like...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/spin-filters
June 20, 2016
Filters – from the electronic to those on cigarettes or water taps – are meant to let some things through and block the passage of others. Prof. Ron Naaman and his group in the Weizmann Institute’s Chemical Physics Department have now demonstrated that one can filter electrons, l...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/eating-air-making-fuel
June 23, 2016
Embargoed until June 23, 2016, 12:00 pm EST, 19:00 Jerusalem time All life on the planet relies, in one way or another, on a process called carbon fixation: the ability of plants, algae and certain bacteria to “pump” carbon dioxide (CO2) from the environment, add sola...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/disrupted-immunity-fetal-brain-linked-neurodevelopmental-disorders
June 27, 2016
Disrupted fetal immune system development, such as that caused by viral infection in the mother, may be a key factor in the later appearance of certain neurodevelopmental disorders. This finding emerges from a Weizmann Institute study published in Science on June 23. The study...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/israeli-eyes-jupiter-orbiter
June 30, 2016
On July 4, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will be entering orbit around Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System. Its extended trip – more than 2 billion kilometers over nearly five years – will be over, but its work will just be beginning. Following some intricate maneuvers, the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/building-better-bowtie
June 30, 2016
Bowtie-shaped nanoparticles made of silver may help bring the dream of quantum computing and quantum information processing closer to reality. These nanostructures, created at the Weizmann Institute of Science and described recently in Nature Communications, greatly simplify the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physicscampus/first-class-schwartzreisman-science-education-center-rehovot-graduates
June 30, 2016
The graduation ceremony of the first class of the Schwartz/Reisman Science Education Center, Rehovot, took place on June 29 in the Clore Garden of Science on the Weizmann Institute of Science campus. Participating were Weizmann Institute of Science President Prof. Daniel Zajfman,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/surface-things-wheat-and-barley
July 7, 2016
Young cultivated wheat has a very particular color. As opposed to wild wheat species, which can be either glossy green or matte and bluish gray, cultivated varieties are always the latter. An international team led by Weizmann Institute scientists has discovered the mechanisms by...
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