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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/senior-delegation-weizmann-institute-science-visits-mbzuai-campus-abu-dhabi
May 3, 2021
A senior delegation from the Weizmann Institute of Science visited the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi for a tour of the campus facilities and to discuss the MBZUAI-WIS Joint Program for Artificial Intelligence Research. The two pa...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-avraham-rami-aizenbud-0
May 9, 2021
Prof. Avraham Rami Aizenbud is the recipient of the 2021 Anna and Lajos Erdos prize in Mathematics...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/prof-oded-goldreich
May 11, 2021
Prof. Oded Goldreich has been selected to receive the Israel Prize in Mathematics and Computer Science...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/brain-research-gets-boost-mosquitos-0
May 11, 2021
Can a protein found in a mosquito lead to a better understanding of the workings of our own brains? Prof. Ofer Yizhar and his team in the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Neurobiology Department took a light-sensitive protein derived from mosquitos and used it to devise an improve...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/dr-nir-london
May 11, 2021
Dr. Nir London is the recipient of the EFMC Prize for a Young Medicinal Chemist or Chemical Biologist in Academia...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/triple-threat-coronavirus
May 11, 2021
Severe symptoms of COVID-19, leading often to death, are thought to result from the patient’s own acute immune response rather than from damage inflicted directly by the virus. Immense research efforts are therefore invested in figuring out how the virus manages to mount an effec...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/natural-food-supplement-may-relieve-anxiety
May 18, 2021
A natural food supplement reduces anxiety in mice, according to a new Weizmann Institute of Science study. The plant-derived substance, beta-sitosterol, was found to produce this effect both on its own and in synergic combination with an antidepressant known under the brand name...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/right-bat-navigation-extra-large-spaces
May 27, 2021
The brain is often likened to a computer: its hardware – neurons organized in complex circuits, its software – a plethora of codes that govern the neurons’ behavior. But sometimes the brain performs exceptionally well even when its hardware seems inadequate for the task. For exam...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/israeli-math-olympians-top-european-competition
May 31, 2021
Israeli all-female team to top Mathematical Olympiad: Noga Friedman, 9th grader from Rehovot, and Ya’ara Schulman, 10th grader from Herzliya, have recently won gold and silver medals at the European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO). The competition was attended by 213 teens fr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/pride-2021-science-over-rainbow
June 6, 2021
Two decades after Tel Aviv’s first official Pride Parade in 1998 (and nearly 40 years after its unofficial predecessor in 1979), pride awareness events have finally landed in the Weizmann Institute of Science. The Institute’s first-ever pride event that took place in the summer o...
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