https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-leeor-kronik-3
September 2, 2018
Prof. Leeor Kronik is a recipient of an Israel Vacuum Society (IVS) Research Excellence Award....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-ron-naaman-3
September 2, 2018
Prof. Ron Naaman has been awarded the Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Prize for Excellence....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/light-exchange
September 3, 2018
The quantum computers of the future will be able to perform computations that cannot be done on today’s computers. These may likely include the ability to crack the encryption that is currently used for secure electronic transactions, as well as the means to efficiently solve unw...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/inside-look-probiotics
September 6, 2018
Every day, millions of people take probiotics – preparations containing live bacteria that are meant to fortify their immune systems, prevent disease or repair the adverse effects of antibiotics. Yet the benefits of probiotics have not really been medically proven. It is not even...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/toward-“ultra-personalized”-therapy-melanoma
September 12, 2018
With new immunotherapy treatments for melanoma, recovery rates have risen dramatically, in some cases to around 50%. But they could be much higher: A new study led by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science showed, in lab dishes and animal studies, that a highly personal...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-yaniv-ziv-0
September 6, 2018
Dr. Yaniv Ziv has been selected as a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Azrieli Global Scholar....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/giving-tree-life
October 2, 2018
The first multi-celled organisms began appearing on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago. That is, once-independent cells gradually traded autonomy for a collective lifestyle. To understand this process, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers tracked down some of the simple...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/quantum-vacuum-effect-created-tank-water
October 4, 2018
If you somehow found yourself in deep outer space travelling at a constant speed, you would not feel yourself moving. In the total quiet of the vacuum, you would only experience starlight; and the light waves would not appear to change, even as you floated across their paths. But...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/dark-side-bone
October 9, 2018
Bone marrow replenishes the blood daily with billions of short-lived mature cells, all the while maintaining a full pool of immature stem cells. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in collaboration with colleagues in Brazil and elsewhere, have now found that in meet...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/binding-relationship
October 11, 2018
When a virus infects a new host, it must find the proper host cells, attaching to and then breaching their membrane walls to get its viral genetic material inside for replication. Dr. Ron Diskin and his group in the Weizmann Institute of Science recently revealed the unique mecha...