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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/cool-shade-how-ice-could-exist-near-lunar-surface
October 27, 2020
If humans are to establish any sort of settlement on the Moon, they might do so near one of its poles, where its meager supply of water is stored in the form of ice. That ice has been detected in difficult-to-reach spots: at the bottoms of large, deep craters, down where sunshine...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching/real-issues-virtual-debate
October 29, 2020
Even as leaders everywhere have been grappling with measures to limit the second wave of COVID-19, a group of young adults (17-20 years old) from around the world came together --virtually -- to debate the ethical, scientific and social dilemmas that are debated, in parallel, in...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-brian-berkowitz-0
October 28, 2020
Prof. Brian Berkowitz has been awarded the 2021 John Dalton Medal by the European Geosciences Union...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/mystery-molecule-bacteria-revealed-be-guard
November 5, 2020
Peculiar hybrid structures called retrons that are half RNA, half single-strand DNA are found in many species of bacteria. Since their discovery around 35 years ago, researchers have learned how to use retrons for producing single strands of DNA in the lab, but no one knew what t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/mass-human-made-materials-now-equals-planet’s-biomass
December 9, 2020
Earth circa 2020: The mass of all human-produced materials – concrete, steel, asphalt, etc. – has grown to equal the mass of all life on the planet, its biomass. According to a new study at the Weizmann Institute of Science, we are right at this tipping point, and humans are curr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/sharing-science
November 27, 2020
Dr. Lorenz Adlung – a writer, public speaker, and systems biologist from Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany – is conducting his postdoctoral research in the Immunology Department of the Weizmann Institute of Science under the guidance...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/clockwork
December 7, 2020
Light is a wave or a particle; the body’s cells have machinery; the brain is a computer and the genome is a code. All of these are metaphors – not just metaphors used by science writers to help lay people understand complex phenomena, but those used by the scientists themselves....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-look-social-brain
November 16, 2020
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, vol. 5 Communication with others – verbal and nonverbal – is part of what makes us human. These abilities are encoded in the brain; according to the widespread “social brain” hypothesis, they sit within dedicated neural circuits that...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/measure-smell
November 11, 2020
Fragrances – promising mystery, intrigue and forbidden thrills – are blended by master perfumers, their recipes kept secret. In a new study on the sense of smell, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have managed to strip much of the mystery from even complex blends of odora...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/weizmann-institute-science-ranked-eighth-world-research-quality
November 9, 2020
The Weizmann Institute of Science has been ranked eighth globally for research quality in a weighted (proportional) ranking conducted by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University, the Netherlands. The Weizmann Institute is one of only two instit...
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