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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/freezing-lasers-creates-aligned-ice-crystals
October 12, 2020
There is enough energy striking the sea every day, in the form of sunlight, to bring it to a boil. Luckily, water molecules have unique properties that limit the absorption of heat from visible light, so the enormous bulk of water in the seas, lakes and oceans stays cool enough t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/surprising-players-acute-liver-failure-point-potential-treatment
October 26, 2020
Acute liver failure is a devastating, rapidly progressing disease that results in death in 80% of cases, unless an emergency liver transplant is performed. In the developed world, its leading cause is a substantial overdose of acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol. In a stu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/drawing-same-deck
October 14, 2020
Chronic heart disease and heart failure affect as many as 10% of adults over 65. And there is still no way to regenerate heart tissue after it stiffens and gets replaced with excess scar tissue, gradually reducing its ability to pump blood around the body. Researchers at the Weiz...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-moty-heiblum
October 11, 2020
Prof. Moty Heiblum is the recipient of the American Physical Society’s 2021 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/wrong-time
October 19, 2020
We cannot stop the march of time, but our perception of time can shrink or stretch. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science recently uncovered a new cognitive bias: The way in which we experience the passage of time can be distorted by a process in which we learn to adju...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-jacob-klein-0
October 12, 2020
Prof. Jacob Klein is the recipient of the American Physical Society’s 2021 Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-itzhak-tserruya-0
October 12, 2020
Prof. Itzhak Tserruya has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/priority-proteins-arrive-pronto
November 19, 2020
Who hasn’t had the experience of waiting in a long line at the airport, only to be passed over by first-class passengers whisked to the boarding gate ahead of the general crowd? Inside living cells, too, VIPs – “very important proteins” – can sometimes be whisked ahead of all oth...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/when-male-and-female-brain-connections-break-down-differently
November 23, 2020
Depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological and psychiatric disorders tend to strike one sex more than the other; and for reasons that remain unknown, they sometimes even produce different symptoms in women and men. A study comparing brain circuits in th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/creativity-emerges-spontaneous-neural-activity
October 22, 2020
Nicola Tesla thought up his alternating current induction motor while walking, Margaret Atwood comes up with ideas while bird-watching, and Archimedes was famously inspired to formulate the laws of buoyancy while sitting in his bath. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Scien...
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