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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/tracking-winds-climate-change
May 29, 2023
In the tropics, above the equatorial rainforests and oceans, the strong solar radiation hitting Earth propels a stream of warm, moist air far upward. Once reaching the upper atmosphere, this stream moves in both hemispheres toward the poles; it then descends in the subtropical re...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/319-ambassadors-groundbreaking-science
June 1, 2023
“Dear graduates, we now celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Feinberg Graduate School, an enchanting boutique university within a bubble called the Weizmann Institute. More than 2,500 MSc recipients and some 5,000 PhDs have graduated from this school, among them more than 400 fo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/if-music-be-food-science-play
June 5, 2023
Albert Einstein rarely travelled without his violin, which inspired him to develop the most elegant theories the world of science has seen. When he was a child, he learned to play piano and violin, and he continued playing his whole life. He even gave his violin an affectionate n...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-b-cell-eaters-clean-their-plates
June 11, 2023
Parents tell their children to eat all the food on their plate, down to the last crumb. Certain cells within our lymph nodes, like obedient children, diligently follow this instruction. Although these cells – a subtype of macrophages, or “big eaters” – were first described in 188...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/dust-wind-forecasting-storms-ai
June 16, 2023
Dust storms are not only a nuisance for anyone trying to keep their house spick and span, they also pose a very real health hazard and are a major ecological concern. Respiratory problems caused by breathing in dust and other airborne particles are one of the main causes of death...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/prepared-war-how-cells-survive-viral-invasion
June 28, 2023
“Let him who desires peace, prepare for war,” wrote the Roman author Vegetius in the 4th century CE. Our bodies, it seems, live by this dictum: Even in times of peace, some cells express high levels of defensive, antiviral proteins. A new Weizmann Institute of Science study revea...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/underground-symbiosis-counters-drought
July 12, 2023
When the going gets tough, we all need a helping hand, and trees are no different. Researchers in the Plant Sciences Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered that in drought conditions, cypresses get help from soil-beneficial bacteria in a kind of cooperati...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/taking-refuge-rehovot
July 23, 2023
Dr. Yasha Gindikin was wide awake when the war began. His fear that Russia was about to invade Ukraine – which it did at around 5 a.m. on February 24, 2022 – had been keeping him up at night. Gindikin, a theoretical physicist then working at a research institute near Moscow, took...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/gaining-weight-you-have-bone-pick-calcium
July 31, 2023
When diets fail, people often blame their genes. Now scientists lend weight to this notion, showing that genes may indeed play a role in weight gain in older people. In a new study, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers found that a gene that regulates calcium in cells might...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/vive-la-différence-brain-cells-males-and-females-respond-differently-chronic-stress
August 1, 2023
Scientific excellence requires diversity – research conducted by men and women, by people from different backgrounds and with varied worldviews. The need for diversity extends to scientific experiments themselves, but even today the vast majority of studies in the life sciences a...
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