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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/volcanic-crater-lab-lesson-survival
November 25, 2025
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative,” wrote H. G. Wells. This principle – that survival requires change – was mastered billions of years ago by single-celled organisms living in extreme heat. Over the past few decades, studies of these organisms’ adap...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/biochip-built-next-pandemic
December 11, 2025
In 2020, as scientists around the world were racing to understand COVID-19, Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv and his team at the Weizmann Institute of Science started developing a DNA chip that could not only quickly show how our immune system responds to this coronavirus but open new possibili...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/new-study-reveals-sex-hormones-reset-our-body-clocks
December 22, 2025
Disruptions to our circadian clocks – the internal molecular timekeepers “ticking” in nearly every cell of our body throughout the day – can lead to a wide range of health problems, from sleep disturbances to diabetes and cancer. But there has been no certainty about the identity...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/resurrected-tissue
December 24, 2025
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, our skin tissue – and in fact many types of epithelial tissue that lines and covers the body’s organs – can respond to death and destruction with a burst of regeneration. This phenomenon, known as compensatory proliferation, was first describ...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/instead-fighting-cancer-resistance-put-it-work
December 29, 2025
One of the most challenging moments in cancer treatment comes when a therapy stops working. In many metastatic cancers, drugs that are initially effective lose their potency over time, as malignant cells acquire mutations that enable them to survive and spread. A new study from P...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/alarming-trend-climate-models-are-missing
January 7, 2026
Alaska’s glaciers are melting at an accelerating pace, losing roughly 60 billion tons of ice each year. About 4,000 kilometers to the south, in California and Nevada, records for heat and dryness are being shattered, creating favorable conditions for wildfire events. One major fa...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/memory-particles
January 7, 2026
In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of chemical reactions to producing highly reliable weather forecasts. For now, however, they remain extremely sensitive to environmental disturbances and prone t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-rats-avoid-being-fooled-their-own-whiskers
January 15, 2026
More than two decades ago, researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science made an intriguing discovery. Deep within the whisker follicles of rats, they identified a class of sensory neurons that behaved unlike anything known at the time. While the whiskers constantly sweep thro...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/rethinking-longevity-genes-matter-more-we-thought
January 29, 2026
What determines how long we live – and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low compared to other human traits, standing at just 20 to 25 percent; some recent large...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/prof-reshef-tenne-recipient-israel-prize-chemistry-research
February 1, 2026
The Israel Prize laureate for 2026 in the field of Chemistry Research and Chemical Engineering is Prof. Reshef Tenne of the Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The announcement was made today by Minister of Education Yoav Kis...
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