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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/drifting-not-away-eye-movements-close-brain-world-loop
January 14, 2021
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.. Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin As we stare at a computer screen, admire a landscape or otherwise observe the world around us, our eyes are anything but still. Even when we are unaware of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/navigation-atom-–-coming-vehicle-near-you
January 18, 2021
Satellite-based GPS is a wondrous invention, but even GPS has its limitations – such as in navigating underwater or when one of the orbiting satellites malfunctions. GPS, like atlases and paper maps, works on parameters of distance and height, but there are other ways to measure...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/scientific-archaeology/“bomb-peak”-may-realign-date-ancient-volcanic-event
January 21, 2021
When the volcano on the Mediterranean island of Santorini erupted over three thousand years ago – give or take a few hundred – it spewed lava, rocks and ash over a huge region. The ash from that eruption is so prevalent in the archaeological record that it is used to date the str...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cell-replacement-numbers
February 15, 2021
One of the earliest thought experiments in history asked whether the ship commanded by the legendary king Theseus could have its old timber replaced, piece by piece, and still remain the same ship. At some point would it actually be a new ship? Our bodies are something like These...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/dr-ayelet-vilan
January 12, 2021
Dr.Ayelet Vilan is the recipient of an Israel Vacuum Society Excellence Award for Surface Science Expertise....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/hijacking-host-defenses-gives-bacteria-advantage
January 25, 2021
Bacteria that cause life-threatening infections sometimes resort to the nastiest ploy of all: Stealing the human body's defense weapons and exploiting them to their own advantage. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have now uncovered one such strategy used by Salmon...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/all-buzz-about-pairing
February 8, 2021
In a swarm of midges that seems to hover in midair, pairs of insects will become inseparable for a while. The two fly across the swarm together, as if connected by an invisible bond, and they oscillate around one another like a couple of dancers. Scientists have pondered this pec...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/slow-synchronization-keeps-heart-cells-beating-time
April 22, 2021
If you dance cheek-to-cheek with a partner, your rhythms soon synchronize, so you move smoothly across the floor. Heart cells that beat – cardiomyocytes – are the same. In fact, if you grow embryonic heart cells on a flexible material, you can not only observe this synchronizatio...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-moni-naor
January 18, 2021
Prof. Moni Naor has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-eran-elinav
January 18, 2021
Prof. Eran Elinav has been appointed an honorary guest professor at the University of Science & Technology of China...
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