https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-yaron-lipman
January 2, 2022
Prof. Yaron Lipman of the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department is the recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award in Neurips 2021...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-ori-avinoam
January 2, 2022
Dr. Ori Avinoam has been elected as an EMBO Young Investigator...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-lia-addadi-5
January 2, 2022
Prof. Lia Addadi has been awarded an Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Gold Medal...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/noam-rozen
January 2, 2022
MSc student Noam Rozen (in the group of Prof. Yaron Lipman) of the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department is the recipient of the Outstanding Paper Award in Neurips 2021...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-elad-schneidman
January 5, 2022
Prof. Elad Schneidman has been appointed Head of the Department of Brain Sciences...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/going-out-bang
January 12, 2022
In the not-so-distant past, the discovery of a supernova – an exploding star – was considered a rare occasion. When Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam of the Weizmann Institute’s Particle Physics and Astrophysics Department was a doctoral student, for example, he located seven of them over th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cell-brakes-some-assembly-required
January 20, 2022
Immune cells zip through our body’s blood vessels at dizzying speed, braking at critical checkpoints with the precision of a plane landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier. This remarkable ability enables them to exit the vessels at just the right spots to cross into any site o...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/noninvasive-test-gut-inflammation
January 23, 2022
Today, people suspected of having inflammatory bowel disease are often required to undergo a colonoscopy, an invasive procedure performed under anesthesia. A new method developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science in collaboration with the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer m...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/tracking-multiple-genes-flying-colors
January 31, 2022
Even fans of black-and-white film can’t deny that color brought new life to photography and motion pictures. And when it comes to learning what happens inside the body, there’s no substitute for color. Were it possible, for example, to map out real-time gene expression in our bod...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/primordial-soap
February 3, 2022
The answers to life’s greatest questions – the when, what and how of its origins – have yet to be fully resolved. Currently, the leading hypothesis within the scientific community is that life developed from RNA molecules, known for their self-replication ability. Yet for the pas...