https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/random-acts-enzyme-ness
June 4, 2018
Randomness, noise and unpredictability are generally unwanted in machinery, and we try to eliminate them from our mechanical equipment. So we might be forgiven for thinking that the microscopic “machinery” in our bodies − for example, the enzymes that effect chemical changes in o...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-ada-yonath-20
June 7, 2018
Prof. Ada Yonath is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Science and Technology from Carnegie Mellon University....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/addressing-problem-stickiness
June 11, 2018
Can an arcane branch of quantum physics help solve a problem that plagues modern-day electronics? Prof. Ulf Leonhardt of the Weizmann Institute of Science and his former postdoc, Ephraim Shahmoon, who is now at Harvard University, suggest that a thorough understanding of phenomen...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/recalculating-route-ant-version
June 14, 2018
Humans cooperate to move heavy objects – whether they are lifting stones for the building of a pyramid or just moving the fridge. The only other creature known to cooperate in this way to move heavy objects is the ant. Ants not only move objects many times their size, but in natu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-meir-lahav-2
June 11, 2018
Prof. Meir Lahav is the recipient of the EMET Prize in Chemistry awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-leslie-leiserowitz-1
June 11, 2018
Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz is the recipient of the EMET Prize in Chemistry awarded by the A.M.N. Foundation...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-ady-stern
June 17, 2018
Prof. Ady Stern has been elected as a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-naama-barkai-3
June 17, 2018
Prof. Naama Barkai has been elected as a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-reshef-tenne-10
June 17, 2018
Prof. Reshef Tenne has been invited to be the keynote speaker at UNAM - National Nanotechnology Research Center, Bilkent University....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/tethered-cell
June 25, 2018
Reaching out and touching is so natural, even the organelles inside our cells do it. New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science used a unique method to uncover a number of new such areas of contact, or contact sites, between organelles as well as several tiny “tethers” tha...