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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/entering-cloud-“twilight-zone”
November 26, 2020
Clouds: We see them as objects with clear-cut shapes and outlines. The satellites that collect cloud data and the climate models built on this data work on this supposition as well. But the line between “cloudy” and “clear” is much hazier than we think. Researchers at the Weizman...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-yaron-lipman
November 18, 2020
Prof. Yaron Lipman has been awarded the 2020 Abarbanel Prize in Applied Mathematics from the Israel Mathematical Union...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/-and-events/staying-together
November 23, 2020
Keeping Apart, Staying Together was the theme of this 72nd Annual General Meeting of the International Board of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Despite the online format, the events were as impressive as ever, featuring talks by the popular behavioral economist Prof. Dan...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/clearing-out-cellular-junkyards-may-be-therapeutic
November 30, 2020
Stress management is a crucial skill – not only for us, but for our cells too. When cells face extremely stressful conditions, they produce tiny, temporary clumps called stress granules that help them cope with heat, cold or other potentially harmful circumstances. If these granu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/making-heads-and-tails-mucus-assembly
December 14, 2020
We generally think of mucus as a nuisance, and we become aware of it only when we want to clear our nose or throat. But our bodies produce this sticky fluid in large amounts – more than a liter per day – for a good reason: It protects the inner linings of the body that come into...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/weak-interactions-sturdy-predictions
December 24, 2020
One summer afternoon over twenty years ago, Prof. Gregory Falkovich and his five-year-old son were bathing amidst gentle ripples in shallow ocean waters near Los Angeles, when they were suddenly knocked over by an unexpectedly tall wave, some ten feet high. Though the two were un...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching/plant-microbiome-project-connects-students-real-time-research
December 31, 2020
Just like humans, plants harbor a vast number of microbes on their surfaces and interact with many more – in the case of plants, mostly in the surrounding soil. Collectively termed the plant microbiota, this community of bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microorganisms has been...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/chaperones-do-two-step
December 3, 2020
Proteins are the workhorses of the cell, carrying out the vast majority of the tasks required to keep us alive and healthy. But if they are damaged, proteins can form toxic clumps in the brain that are called amyloid fibers, which have been tied to Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and nu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/nuclear-shell
January 4, 2021
When the Soviet government shut down Hebrew-language schools, teachers from schools across the Soviet Union tried to make aliya to Eretz Yisrael. Their numbers included Moshe and Leah Smilanski, both Hebrew teachers, who changed their name to Talmi and moved with their two childr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/yes-breaking-speed-light-barrier
December 29, 2020
How much time does it take to send a package from New York to Tel Aviv, and how does that compare with sending an email from one side of the Weizmann Institute of Science campus to the other? Now shrink the package down to the size of one of the electrons making up the email and...
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