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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/giant-planet’s-slimmer-profile
February 2, 2026
For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar systems largest planet. Now, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have revised that knowledge using new data and technology. In a new study published today in Nature Astronomy, Weizmann scie...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people/prof-igal-talmi-1925–2026
February 4, 2026
Prof. Igal Talmi, a leading pioneer of Israeli science and a founder of nuclear physics research in Israel, passed away today, just days after his 101st birthday. Less than two weeks ago, his wife of 77 years, Chana Talmi (ne Kivelewitz), passed away at the age of 100. Ta...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cancer-alzheimer’s-engineered-immune-cells-reduce-plaques-brain
February 9, 2026
Can a cancer therapy that transformed the treatment of blood malignancies also offer new possibilities for Alzheimers disease? More than three decades ago, Prof. Zelig Eshhar of the Weizmann Institute of Science, who passed away in the summer of 2025, laid the groundwork for a n...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/gut-microbes-actively-support-immunity-people-living-hiv
February 12, 2026
The circumstances surrounding a study on a deadly virus could hardly have been more dramatic. One of its first authors was forced to flee his homeland when it became a war zone. More than two thousand kilometers away, the laboratory of a team leader was destroyed by a ballistic m...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/environment/between-flood-and-drought-metric-could-better-explain-what-happens-water-age-climate
February 23, 2026
How much rain fell? is a key question in any discussion about climate. But perhaps there is an even more important one. Like any household budget, the global water economy is based on income, that is, water entering the system as precipitation, and expenditure water leavi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/malaria’s-mrna-messages-mess-immune-system
March 11, 2026
RNA technology is regarded as one of the newest frontiers in medicine, but in fact a primordial innovator got there way before we did. The malaria parasite, an ancient single-celled organism, has been using sophisticated RNA maneuvers for millennia. In a study recently published ...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/phage’s-deep-pockets
March 16, 2026
The genomes of phages viruses that infect bacteria are largely composed of dark matter: genes that encode proteins whose functions remain unknown. Less than four years ago, a team led by Prof. Rotem Sorek at the Weizmann Institute of Science identified a new type of protein...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/how-yeast-find-perfect-match
March 23, 2026
While humans often struggle to find a partner who is both physically attractive and a reliable co-parent, yeast may already have cracked the formula for the perfect match. When choosing mates, these single-celled organisms tend to pick partners that may increase the chances of th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/high-rise-living-tiny-engineers-build-their-bodies
March 30, 2026
The rainforests of northern Australia are home to extraordinary ant colonies. Instead of dwelling in underground burrows, these ants inhabit canopies of trees, dozens of meters above the ground, inside hollow spheres they construct from tree leaves. During the building process, t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/moon’s-dark-secret-shadowed-cold-traps-could-unlock-mystery-lunar-ice
April 7, 2026
More than half a century after the last crewed landing, a new lunar space race is underway with last weeks launching of NASAs Artemis II mission and the United States, Russia and China all aiming to establish permanent bases on the Moon. Unlike the Apollo program, during whic...
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