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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments-/presidents-and-prime-ministers-memorial-prize
April 20, 2009
Weizmann Institute of Science Receives Israel Presidents and Prime Ministers Memorial Prize The Israel Presidents and Prime Ministers Memorial Prize was awarded to the Weizmann Institute of Science by the country’s president Shimon Peres for preserving the heritage of its fi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/brave-brains-neural-mechanisms-courage
June 24, 2010
The research, published by Cell Press in the June 24th issue of the journal Neuron, provides fascinating insight into what happens in the brain when an individual voluntarily performs an action opposite to that promoted by ongoing fear and may even lead to new treatment stra...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/best-places-work-academia-2009
November 5, 2009
Weizmann Institute of Science receives high ranking in "Best Places to Work in Academia" The Weizmann Institute of Science was placed second in the international list (outside of the USA) of ‘Best Places to Work in Academia’, by the The Scien...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-ada-yonath-has-been-awarded-nobel-prize-chemistry
October 7, 2009
The Weizmann Institute of Science congratulates Prof. Ada Yonath on receiving the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry and is proud of her scientific achievements. We are delighted that the Nobel Prize committee has recognized the significance of Prof. Ada Yonath’s scientific res...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-protein-partnership
September 10, 2009
Why are some pediatric cancers able to spontaneously regress? Prof. Michael Fainzilber and his team of the Weizmann Institute’s Biological Chemistry Department seem to have unexpectedly found part of the answer. Further research towards a better understanding of the mechanism of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/node/1401
September 7, 2009
Eleven Young Israeli Women Scientists Receive an Award to Help Them Build a Scientific Career Eleven young women scientists, who completed their Ph.D. studies with honors at various academic institutions throughout Israel, will each receive an award of between $15 – 25,000...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-education-science-culture/new-comic-series-science-smile
September 1, 2009
Can some ingredients found in garlic be used to treat disease? (Yes) Is extracting oil from sand fields a lost cause? (No) Could nanotubes be used to build an elevator from Earth to the space station? (Maybe) These are just three of the thousands of questions Weizma...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/darwin’s-finch-and-evolution-smell
April 6, 2010
Darwin’s finches – some 14 related species of songbirds found on the Galapagos and Cocos Islands – will forever be enshrined in history for having planted the seeds of the theory of evolution through natural selection. Today, exactly 150 years after Darwin’s famous book, finches...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/aiming-side
February 4, 2010
The best way to track a moving object with a flashlight might be to aim it to one side, catching the object in the edge of the beam rather than the center. New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals that bats, which ‘see’ with beams of sound waves, skew their beams...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/cooling-forests-can-heat-too
January 21, 2010
The simple formula we’ve learned in recent years – forests remove the greenhouse gas CO2 from the atmosphere; therefore forests prevent global warming – may not be quite as simple as we thought. Forests can directly absorb and retain heat, and, in at least one type of forest, the...
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