https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-zohar-komargodski
December 18, 2017
Prof. Zohar Komargodski has been awarded a Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physics....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/2017-weizmann-wonder-wander-quiz
December 19, 2017
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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-oren-schuldiner
December 20, 2017
Prof. Oren Schuldiner is the recipient of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/asking-easier-question
January 1, 2018
Computers may be getting smaller and faster, but the amount of information streaming through wires everywhere is still far outpacing our machines’ processing capacity. Computer scientists and mathematicians have in the past few decades been tackling the analysis of extremely larg...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/fateful-encounter-physics-book
December 28, 2017
Prof. Abraham Blaugrund, known to his friends as Edek, was only nine years old when the Second World War broke out. His extended family in Poland entered into prolonged discussions on the best means of surviving, eventually deciding to split the family up: mother and son going on...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/defects-heat
January 4, 2018
Graphene – a form of carbon that recently garnered its discoverers a Nobel Prize – may one day form the basis of environmentally friendly and efficient electronic devices. Unlike other materials composed of carbon – for example, diamond or graphite – graphene conducts electricity...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-yaron-silberberg-2
January 7, 2018
Prof. Yaron Silberberg has been awarded the Rothschild Prizes in Physical Sciences....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-naama-barkai-2
January 7, 2018
Prof. Naama Barkai has been awarded the Rothschild Prize in Life Science....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/zombie-cell-census
January 9, 2018
Our bodies contain cells that seem to be zombies – they no longer divide as they did in their prime, but they refuse to die. These “living-dead” cells, called senescent cells, take part in healing wounds and averting cancer, but as we age, they may do more harm than good. They te...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/mapping-social-landscape
January 11, 2018
Whether we’re playing a team sport or just strolling with our family through the park, we’re continually aware of the positions of those around us – and where each is heading. Scientists have, in recent decades, pinpointed neurons called “place cells” in our brains that...