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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/dark-side-time
July 10, 2025
For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter – an invisible substance believed to make up about 80 percent of the universe’s mass and needed to explain a variety of physical phenomena. Numerous methods have been used in attempts to detect...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/meet-your-digital-twin
July 15, 2025
Before an important meeting or when a big decision needs to be made, we often mentally run through various scenarios before settling on the best course of action. But when it comes to our health – be it choosing a treatment for an ailment or even selecting a dietary regimen – it...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/faster-smarter-more-open-new-way-accelerate-ai-models
July 16, 2025
Just as people from different countries speak different languages, AI models also create various internal “languages” – a unique set of tokens understood only by each model. Until recently, there was no way for models developed by different companies to communicate directly, coll...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/emma’s-gene
July 24, 2025
Emma Broadbent was born nine years ago in Dallas, Texas, with distinctive facial features. From birth, she suffered from muscle weakness and breathing problems, spending her first weeks in a neonatal intensive care unit. Her doctors, unable to identify her condition, ordered exom...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/bacterial-communities-go-synchronized-swimming
July 30, 2025
A desert region in northern Mexico sparked the imagination of Prof. Joel Stavans, a physicist who studies the physics of biological processes and is particularly interested in natural bacterial communities. He learned about a unique aquatic environment in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/blocking-brain-liver-communication-may-prevent-deadly-weight-loss-cancer
August 7, 2025
Nearly a third of cancer-related deaths are caused by cachexia, a currently incurable metabolic syndrome that involves substantial weight loss, including depletion of muscle mass and body fat. Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of Texas MD Ander...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/giant-star-laid-bare-reveals-birthplace-silicon-and-sulfur
August 20, 2025
Massive stars have a layered structure, similar to an onion. The outermost layers predominantly comprise the lightest elements; as the layers move inward, the elements become heavier and heavier until reaching the innermost iron core. This is the accepted theory, but observations...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/scientific-archaeology/carbon-14-dating-unlocks-ancient-jerusalem’s-water-secret-monumental-siloam
August 25, 2025
More than 2,800 years ago, residents of Iron-age Jerusalem faced a climate change, marked by years of drought and sudden flash floods. The ruling establishment of Judah, probably led by King Jehoash or his successor Amaziah, came up with a large-scale engineering solution for the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/fishing-drug-study-brings-hope-treating-rare-disease
September 2, 2025
Despite swimming in different worlds, fish and humans are biologically much closer than one might think. Capitalizing on this kinship, researchers have now used zebrafish embryos to come up with a promising new therapy for kaposiform lymphangiomatosis (KLA) – a rare, life-threate...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/weizmann-institute-science-launches-michael-sela-prize-biomedical-sciences
September 8, 2025
“Curiosity comes first” (Michael Sela) The Weizmann Institute of Science announces the inauguration of the Michael Sela Prize in Biomedical Sciences, a new international award established to honor the legacy of Prof. Michael Sela (1924–2022), trailblazing immunologist and six...
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