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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-ayelet-erez-0
February 5, 2019
Dr. Ayelet Erez is the recipient of the Bruce and Ruth Rappaport Foundation Prize for a Young Scientist....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/israel’s-first-moon-mission-will-conduct-scientific-measurements
February 21, 2019
After more than eight years of working with brilliant engineers, we are finally ready to launch our spacecraft to the moon! SpaceIL’s Beresheet will be launched from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket tomorrow, February 21 at 5:45pm PST / 8:45pm EST / February 22 3:45am I...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/wrong-way-oncoming-traffic
February 14, 2019
In an old joke, a driver who’s taken the wrong ramp and finds himself going against the flow of traffic on the freeway gets a call from his wife. “Be careful,” she says. “I just heard on the radio that a crazy person is driving the wrong way on the freeway!” “Just one?” he replie...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/slits-nooks-and-pores-how-do-they-hold-their-charges
February 25, 2019
Energy storage capacity can be a critical feature in smartphones, laptops, electric vehicles and a broad range of other battery-powered devices. One common solution is to use supercapacitors, an emerging class of high-power units that store charge in electrodes made from porous m...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-ada-yonath-25
February 17, 2019
Prof. Ada Yonath is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award (Golden Arrow) from Vienna Congress Com.sult....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching/dancing-all-way-her-doctorate
February 18, 2019
Scientists are not generally required to display prowess in modern dance, but Dr. Roni Zohar of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Science Teaching Department recently showed her moves in an award-winning science/dance video. Her video placed first, over the weekend, in the soci...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/breakdance-cohesins-revealing-breakdown-structure’s-flexible-side
February 28, 2019
Plant biomass – agricultural waste or even waste paper or wood – could be a highly useful source of carbon for renewable fuels. But to take advantage of this resource, the sturdy cellulose in plant cell walls must be broken down into smaller, soluble sugars. In a study reported i...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/making-molecules-stand-formation
March 7, 2019
Molecules come in all shapes and sizes. Directly imaging molecules is a feat that leads to advances in fields ranging from medicine to physics, so researchers have been taking up this challenge for over a century. An early leader in determining molecular structure was Max von Lau...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-abraham-arcavi-2
February 24, 2019
Prof. Abraham Arcavi is the recipient of an Award for Interdisciplinary Excellence in Mathematics Education from the Texas A&M University....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/revealing-gut’s-b-cell-training-program-may-point-new-means-developing-oral-vaccines
March 4, 2019
Only a few vaccines – for example, against polio and rotavirus – can be given orally. Most must be delivered by injection. Weizmann Institute of Science researchers suggest this may be, in part, because the training program of the immune cells in the gut takes place under harsh c...
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