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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/dr-rina-rosenzweig-1
March 26, 2023
Dr. Rina Rosenzweig is the recipient of the 2023 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in Chemistry...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/prof-zvika-brakerski-1
March 26, 2023
Prof. Zvika Brakerski is the recipient of the 2023 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/new-eyes-sky
March 26, 2023
The Weizmann Institute of Science is building a new observatory in the Negev, near kibbutz Neot Smadar. It will consist of 48 telescopes – each featuring a 28-cm mirror – with an extremely wide field of view. The new array will be equivalent to a 1.9 m-diameter telescope, and wil...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/sustainable-science
April 7, 2023
In a quiet spot in the Wolfson Building on the Weizmann Institute campus, a powerful but disused microscope was slowly gathering dust. The instrument, which had been used by a researcher who is no longer at the Weizmann Institute of Science, cost tens of thousands of shekels w...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/across-universe-israeli-tech-reach-deep-space-first-time
April 13, 2023
The journey to Jupiter has begun. The European Space Agency’s unmanned spacecraft JUICE (short for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) was recently launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. JUICE’s voyage, the ESA’s most ambitious mission to date, will be particularly lengthy: U...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/age-screen-enlightenment
April 21, 2023
Digital displays comprising organic materials have brought about a new era in consumer electronics, helping to mass produce brighter screens that hold numerous advantages over those made of regular crystalline materials. These organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, can, for exa...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/decades-old-mystery-red-blood-cell-production-finally-solved
April 27, 2023
To get life-giving oxygen into every cell, the human body produces two to three million oxygen-carrying red blood cells, or erythrocytes, each second – about one-quarter of all the new cells that are produced in the body at any one time. This process is controlled by the hormone...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/plant-research-reaches-new-high
May 1, 2023
A South African plant called a woolly umbrella is completely unrelated to the cannabis plant, yet it makes a slew of the active compounds found in cannabis – cannabinoids – including some that may have new medical uses. In a study published today in Nature Plants, Weizmann Instit...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/down-ms
May 3, 2023
Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a treacherous disease: This disorder of the central nervous system, in which the immune system attacks the protective sheath that covers nerve fibers, progresses in cycles of remission and relapse. That is, the body repeatedly manages to recover from...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/why-do-cancer-patients-lose-so-much-weight
May 8, 2023
Applying the same solution to different problems is a common mistake, not only among humans but also in our immune system. Flooding a wound with inflammation-causing white blood cells can be helpful for fighting infection, but when the immune system tries to apply this “solution”...
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