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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/turning-down-brain-erase-fearful-memories
March 14, 2017
Erasing unwanted memories is still the stuff of science fiction, but Weizmann Institute scientists have now managed to erase one type of memory in mice. In a study reported today in Nature Neuroscience, they succeeded in shutting down a neuronal mechanism by which memories of fea...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/explosive-material-making-supernova
March 14, 2017
In the most common type of supernova, the iron core of a massive star suddenly collapses in on itself and the outer layers are thrown out into space in a spectacular explosion. New research led by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers shows that the stars that become so-calle...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/first-oceans-may-have-been-acidic
March 14, 2017
One way to understand how ocean acidity can change, for example, in response to rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, is to look to the history of seawater acidity. Dr. Itay Halevy of the Weizmann Institute of Science has looked to the distant past – all the way back to Earth’s ear...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry-campus/irresistible-science
March 16, 2017
Israeli science teachers were in Kiel, Germany, last October, for a unique event. For the previous three years, teachers from ten European countries, including Israel, had been leading an educational project on issues of science and society. At the event – a closing party for the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/solving-quantum-time-problem
March 20, 2017
Often solving one problem leads a scientist to the solution of a completely different kind of problem. Prof. Eli Pollak of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Chemical Physics Department had developed a theory based on elemental classical physics – Newtonian mechanics – to answer...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/senior-research-fellow-dr-ditsa-levanon
March 23, 2017
Name: Dr. Ditsa Levanon Department: Molecular Genetics Have you ever tried to touch your nose with your finger when your eyes are closed? Most of us can do this with great precision. In research spanning decades, Senior Research Fellow Dr. Ditsa Levanon has been working i...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/swept-currents-history
March 26, 2017
It was June 28, 1914. Two shots fired by Gavrilov Princip, killing the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, sparked the outbreak of WWI. These were the opening shots of an arms race between England and Germany that would last through the next world war. Two fri...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/weizmann-institute-scientists-discover-how-manipulate-brain-control-maternal-behavior-females-and
October 7, 2015
Most female mammals give birth and care for their offspring, while the males often breed with multiple partners and play little role in parenting once the mating is over. Yet researchers have had a hard time pinpointing where, exactly, in the brain these differences between...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/pre-april-fools-joke-important-announcement-phipps
March 29, 2017
The Paris Hilton Institute of Plastic Pollution Solutions (PHIPPS) Announces Partnership with Weizmann Institute of Science to Advance Efficient Hydration Through Use of Nanotechnology A recent scientific breakthrough in the study of hydration is to be further developed with s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-uri-alon-2
January 30, 2017
Prof. Uri Alon was Awarded the Jacques Solvay Chair in Physics...
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