https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/blocking-resistance-could-reduce-insecticide-use
October 28, 2019
Thousands of tons of insecticides are spewed on crops and farm animals worldwide, and these amounts are still growing because the insects are increasingly developing resistance to the chemicals. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in collaboration with scientists in...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-brian-berkowitz-3
October 29, 2019
Prof. Brian Berkowitz has been elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/converging-solutions-artificial-networks-shed-light-human-face-recognition
October 30, 2019
Our brains are so primed to recognize faces – or to tell people apart – that we rarely even stop to think about it, but what happens in the brain when it engages in such recognition is still far from understood. In a new study reported today in Nature Communications, researchers...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-shimon-ullman-3
November 3, 2019
Prof. Shimon Ullman is the recipient of the Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award in computer vision...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/first-time-method-measuring-animal-personality
November 4, 2019
We might refer to someone’s personality as “mousey,” but in truth, mice have a range of personalities nearly as great as our own. Prof. Alon Chen and members of two groups he heads – one in the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Neurobiology Department and one in the Max Planck Inst...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/exception-rule-intact-sense-smell-without-crucial-olfactory-brain-structure
November 6, 2019
Is a pair of brain structures called the olfactory bulbs, which are said to encode our sense of smell, necessary? That is, are they essential to the existence of this sense? Weizmann Institute of Science researchers recently showed that some humans can smell just fine, thank you,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/i-owe-my-life-weizmann-institute-science
November 11, 2019
The Michael Sela Auditorium was inaugurated yesterday (November 10), in honor of the former Weizmann Institute of Science President. The official opening took place during the 71st International Board events, and Prof. Sela was on hand to give this speech: I’ve been working fo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/neurobiology-news
November 12, 2019
Our emotions play a central role in learning and memory, and they enable survival in a dynamic environment. Tamar Stolero, a PhD student in the group of Prof. Rony Paz found that neurons in the primate amygdala – the emotional center of the brain – show repeated patterns...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/end-arc
November 25, 2019
The electrons in our devices are “accustomed” to jogging around electronic bands. But under unique circumstances in special materials, electrons can run into obstacles in the form of broken circuits – or arcs. An electron moving down the path of such an arc will soon reach a dead...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/why-nerve-cell-different-finding-genetic-roots-als
January 2, 2020
Q. How do you identify genes that are relevant to disease? A: The disease that is studied in my lab, ALS, is a neurodegenerative state of the human motor system. The accepted view is that there are genetic causes for ALS. However, the most frequent cause is not in a gene that...