https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/eye-shrimp
January 20, 2020
It is all in the eye of the beholder – even when the beholder is a shrimp. How does a shrimp see in the dim depths, dozens of meters below the ocean’s surface? The answer, obtained through a collaborative effort of chemists and physicists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-michal-irani
January 19, 2020
Prof. Michal Irani has been awarded the Rothschild Prize in Mathematics/Computer Science and Engineering...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-jacob-klein
January 19, 2020
Prof. Jacob Klein has been awarded the Rothschild Prize in Chemical Science and Physical Science...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/rare-metabolic-disorder-sheds-light-brain-chemistry
January 30, 2020
Dr. Ayelet Erez decided to focus on the brain in her new study because of a puzzling aspect of ASL deficiency – a rare disorder affecting one of the enzymes that act in the liver to convert excess ammonia into a nontoxic substance secreted in the urine. Erez and other physicians...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-guy-rothblum
January 29, 2020
Prof. Guy Rothblum is the recipient of a Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/dr-emmanuel-levy
January 29, 2020
Dr. Emmanuel Doram Levy is the recipient of a Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in Chemistry...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/dr-igor-ulitsky
January 29, 2020
Dr. Igor Ulitsky is the recipient of a Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in Life Sciences...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-avraham-levy
February 2, 2020
Prof. Avraham Levy has been elected associate member to the French Academy of Agriculture...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/back-time
March 9, 2020
One could start this story by thinking about a race: A group of runners takes off at the exact same instant, at the sound of the starter pistol. If each runs at an individual, steady pace, after a while the race track appears to have runners scattered randomly along its length. N...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/if-i-may-ask
February 5, 2020
Over the 2019 Hanukkah holiday, scholarships were presented to twelve outstanding students who participated as tutors in the national PERACH tutoring program, a vehicle for social progress. The Avraham Agmon Excellence Scholarship ceremony took place in the Barvaz Auditorium of t...