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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/how-water-could-have-flowed-mars
November 18, 2014
Why does the cold, barren surface of Mars contain geological features that appear to have been formed by flowing water: river valleys, lake basins and deltas? A new model, which was published online in Nature Geoscience this week, suggests that sulfur spewed...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/microbes-take-their-sulfur-light
November 18, 2014
On the ocean floor, where oxygen is in short supply, live microbes that “breathe” sulfur instead of oxygen. Far from the world’s forests, these microbes play a vital role in the planet’s carbon cycle, digesting around half of the organic matter that sinks to the seabed. New resea...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/3d-compass-brain
December 3, 2014
Pilots are trained to guard against vertigo: a sudden loss of the sense of vertical direction that renders them unable to tell “up” from “down” and sometimes even leads to crashes. Coming up out of a subway station can produce similar confusion: For a few moments, you are unsure...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/human-primordial-cells-created-lab
December 24, 2014
Groups at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Cambridge University have jointly managed the feat of turning back the clock on human cells to create primordial germ cells – the embryonic cells that give rise to sperm and ova – in the lab. This is the first time that human cells...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching/thinking-locally
January 21, 2015
Peru’s Ministry of Education recently announced that it will be adopting the Blue Planet educational program, which was developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science, into its schools’ curricula. Blue Planet, which takes a hands-on approach to learning about the water cycles on...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/autistic-brains-go-their-own-way
January 21, 2015
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been studied for many years, but there are still more questions than answers. For example, some research into the brain functions of individuals on the autism spectrum have found a lack of synchronization between different part...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/israel-japan-conference-foster-cooperation-brain-research
January 21, 2015
Following the visit of Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, to Israel in the beginning of the week, the end of the week of January 18th saw a visit by a group of leading Japanese scientists to Rehovot, Israel. The Advances in Brain Sciences conference the s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/scientific-archaeology/when-age-matters
February 26, 2015
A partial human skull unearthed in 2008 in northern Israel may hold some clues as to when and where humans and Neanderthals might have interbred. The key to addressing this, as well as other important issues, is precisely determining the age of the skull. A combination of dating...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/heartbeat
February 26, 2015
Two hearts, said Keats, can beat as one; but a study led by Weizmann Institute scientists in collaboration with researchers from the University of Pennsylvania shows that sometimes a single heart muscle cell can beat as more than two dozen. The findings, reported recently in Natu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-education/message-moon
February 26, 2015
SpaceIL – a nonprofit organization dedicated to landing the first Israeli spacecraft on the Moon – and the Weizmann Institute of Science will be hosting an online game full of fun and prizes. This interactive Space Trivia Game, “Super Moon,” will test the pa...
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