https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/dr-zohar-komargodski-weizmann-institute-awarded-new
December 11, 2012
The New Horizons in Physics Prize, awarded by the Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation, is given to three promising young researchers. Each of the laureates will receive $100,000. The Foundation also announced that leaders of the ATLAS experiment, one of the two experimental...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciencescampus/israeli-researchers-participate-european-commission-flagship
January 27, 2013
The European Commission has officially announced the selection of the Human Brain Project (HBP) as one of its two Future Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship projects. The new project will federate European efforts to address one of the greatest challenges of modern science: unde...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/observed-outburst-blast
February 7, 2013
Before they go all-out supernova, certain large stars undergo a sort of “mini-explosion,” throwing a good-sized chunk of their material off into space. Though several models predict this behavior and evidence from supernovae points in this direction, actually observations of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/two-antibodies-are-better-one
February 7, 2013
Cancer drugs of the new, molecular generation destroy malignant breast tumors in a targeted manner: They block characteristic molecules on tumor cells – receptors for the hormones estrogen or progesterone, or a co-receptor, called HER2, that binds to many growth factors. Bu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/genetic-device-performs-dna-diagnosis
February 7, 2013
Scientists hope that one day in the distant future, miniature, medically-savvy computers will roam our bodies, detecting early-stage diseases and treating them on the spot by releasing a suitable drug, without any outside help. To make this vision a reality, computers must be suf...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching-campus/weizmann-institute-women-science-program-wins-award
March 3, 2013
In honor of International Women’s Day, the city of Barcelona will present the 27th Maria Aurèlia Capmany award on March 4 to theWeizmann Institute of Science for its commitment to advancing young women in science. A representative of the Institute will accept the prize at th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/turing-award-weizmann-institute’s-shafi-goldwasser
March 13, 2013
ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Prof. Shafi Goldwasser of the Weizmann Institute’s Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intell...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/causing-collapse
March 18, 2013
One of the most basic laws of quantum mechanics is that a system can be in more than one state – it can exist in multiple realities – at once. This phenomenon, known as the superposition principle, exists only so long as the system is not observed or measured in any way. As...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/cell-chip-reveals-protein-behavior
March 18, 2013
For years, scientists around the world have dreamed of building a complete, functional, artificial cell. Though this vision is still a distant blur on the horizon, many are making progress on various fronts. Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv and his research...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/programmed-destruction
March 18, 2013
Stroke, heart attacks and numerous other common disorders result in a massive destruction of cells and tissues called necrosis. It’s a violent event: As each cell dies, its membrane ruptures, releasing substances that trigger inflammation, which in turn can cause more cellul...