https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/solving-plant-cell-parking-garage-puzzle
May 26, 2021
To design a multistory parking garage, you need to figure out how to pack the maximum number of cars into the smallest possible space while still allowing free passage between levels. Parking-garage-like structures in plant and animal cells evolved for similar purposes: Their thi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/reading-message-carried-distant-tide
April 26, 2021
Some 700 million years ago, as it was being ripped to pieces by a black hole, a distant star sent out “messages” in the form of subatomic particles – neutrinos. In 2019, one of those neutrinos slammed into a detector at the South Pole with unprecedented force. In only the second...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/when-beads-line
April 5, 2021
Our body’s proteins are largely the same as those of apes and monkeys, and the similarities extend even to the less human-like creatures: We share roughly 90 percent of our proteins with mice and 70 percent with fish. But if proteins, and the genes that encode them, have changed...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-yosef-yarden
April 4, 2021
Prof. Yosef Yarden has been elected to the Academy of the American Association for Cancer Research...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-david-mukamel
April 4, 2021
Prof. David Mukamel has been elected as an Israel Physical Society (IPS) fellow...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-irit-sagi
April 4, 2021
Prof. Irit Sagi is the recipient of the 2020 ICS-Adama Prize for Technological Innovation...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-zelig-eshhar
April 4, 2021
Prof. Zelig Eshhar is the recipient of the 2021 Dan David Prize...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/dr-shikma-bressler
April 4, 2021
Dr. Shikma Bressler has been awarded the IPS prize for young experimental physicists by the Israel Physical Society...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/prof-shafrira-shafi-goldwasser
April 4, 2021
Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser is the recipient of the L'Oreal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science International...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-ruth-arnon
April 4, 2021
Prof. Ruth Arnon has been appointed as a Member of Taiwan’s Asia University International Advisory Board...