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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/how-hot-was-ocean
August 19, 2019
Geoscientists studying the conditions prevailing in Earth’s earliest oceans have been in disagreement for the past half century. Some, working backwards, think the first ocean was extremely hot – at least 70˚ Celsius – while others believe it was closer to the 15˚C we enjoy today...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/telling-left-right-spinning-them-light
August 22, 2019
The important molecules on Earth often come in one of two versions, left- or right-handed. But, for reasons that are still unknown, living systems tend to prefer one type of handedness – or chirality – over the other. DNA, for example, is normally a right-handed helix, whereas pr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-rafal-klajn-3
August 25, 2019
Prof. Rafal Klajn has received the 2019 Helen and Martin Kimmel Award for innovative investigation....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-eli-zeldov-5
August 25, 2019
Prof. Eli Zeldov has been awarded the Andre Deloro Prize for scientific research....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/bar-sagi-tiling-refrigerator-door-mathematics-journal
August 26, 2019
Tiling has fascinated both mathematicians and artists since ancient times. The problem it poses can be described simply as revealing the ways to cover a plane using interlocking shapes and following a well-defined set of rules. Even in antiquity, the tiling of a plane using trian...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/opposite-attraction-magnets-separate-mirror-image-crystals
September 9, 2019
In the mid-nineteenth century Louis Pasteur discovered molecular “handedness” – the existence of left- and right-handed versions of the same molecule. He separated mirror-image crystals manually, using a tweezer, and speculated that the differently handed molecules might hav...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teachingcampus/what-we-did-summer
August 29, 2019
In summer, kids are wont to spend the hot days in the pool, at the beach, or at least eating ice cream in the air conditioned mall. But for some kids, a day spent on a school subject was among the highlights of their summer vacation. On the last day of July, 60 young math lovers...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-daniel-wagner-1
September 1, 2019
Prof. Daniel Wagner is the recipient of an Israel Vacuum Society (IVS) award for Research Excellence....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-yuri-myasoedov
September 1, 2019
Dr. Yuri Myasoedov is the recipient of an Israel Vacuum Society (IVS) award for Research Excellence....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/taking-account-hebrew-cement-plant
September 2, 2019
In November, 1919, Dr. Chaim Weizmann met in Egypt with Field Marshal Allenby, the British High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan. Immediately afterward, on the 15th, he sent a telegram to the offices of the Zionist Organization in London reporting, that, in addition to allowing s...
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