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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/shining-light-developing-brain-how-parental-separation-shapes-us
September 17, 2025
The relationships we form as adults often echo those we had with our parents. According to attachment theory – one of the most influential frameworks in contemporary psychology – this is no coincidence: The attachment between an infant and a primary caregiver shapes the baby’s fu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/avoiding-loss-neural-key-anxiety-and-ptsd
September 30, 2025
People are often willing to take risks to make a profit, but when there’s a chance of losing, they will do anything they can to avoid the same risks – even if it means acting irrationally. This decision-making bias is at the heart of prospect theory, for which Daniel Kahneman rec...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/out-lab-and-nature-going-ends-earth-better-understand-brain
October 16, 2025
Some 40 kilometers east of the Tanzanian coast in East Africa lies Latham Island, a rocky, utterly isolated and uninhabited piece of land about the size of seven soccer fields. It was on this unlikely patch of ground that Weizmann Institute of Science researchers recorded – for t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/simple-explanation-cosmic-puzzle
October 20, 2025
Blasting around the equators of the solar system’s giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – are fierce jet streams reaching speeds of 500 to 1,500 kilometers per hour. For years, scientists have puzzled over why these extreme winds blow eastward on Jupiter and Saturn...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/humanity-rises-wildlife-recedes-two-studies-show-extent-human-domination-over-nature
October 27, 2025
Life on the move Wolves roaming the Mongolian steppes cover more than 7,000 kilometers a year. The Arctic tern flies from pole to pole in its annual migration. Compared to these long-distance travelers of land, sea and sky, humans might seem like the ultimate couch potatoes. B...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/weizmann-institute-science-ranked-sixth-world-research-quality
October 29, 2025
The Weizmann Institute of Science is placed sixth in the world in the 2025 ranking of research quality published today (Wednesday) by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University, the Netherlands (“Leiden Ranking”). This represents a jump of four plac...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/hidden-waters-shape-ocean-–-and-climate
November 4, 2025
We’ve gone to the bottom of the ocean to study how its chemistry shapes our planet’s climate, even chasing lava-spewing underwater volcanoes to do it. But it turns out we may have missed something far closer to home: the water beneath our feet. In a study published recently in Na...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/“seven-unique-voices-symphony-human-achievement”
November 10, 2025
“The last two years have been among the most difficult in Israel’s history, and the last several months – the most challenging moment in the history of the Weizmann Institute. Now, we are at a turning point – to what we believe is a better, brighter and promising future.” With th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/bacteria-brain
November 14, 2025
Like a bouncer guarding the entrance to an exclusive nightclub, the blood-brain barrier – a dense layer of cells surrounding the brain’s blood vessels – is regarded as an exceptionally strict gatekeeper. It allows nutrients to pass through but blocks toxins, pathogens and even mo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/turning-tumor’s-shield-sword
November 19, 2025
Immunotherapy, which harnesses our body’s own immune system to fight cancer, has revolutionized modern oncology. Yet despite its success with several cancers, many patients still fail to respond to therapy or experience relapse later on. Scientists have long sought ways to pinpoi...
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