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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-education/women’s-postdoctoral-program-accepting-applications
February 26, 2015
The Israel National Postdoctoral Program for Advancing Women in Science, a program of the Weizmann Institute of Science, offers support to outstanding women to help them get started on their career in science. This year, ten grants will be awarded. These will give the women up to...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/nice-sniff-you-handshakes-may-engage-our-sense-smell
March 3, 2015
Why do people shake hands? A new Weizmann Institute study suggests one of the reasons for this ancient custom may be to check out each other’s odors. Even if we are not consciously aware of this, handshaking may provide people with a socially acceptable way of communicating via t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/comedy-eight-funerals
October 1, 2007
"Look, we didn't come into this world just to complain about illnesses. Nor did we come into this world to count money. And we didn't come into this world to play bridge. Nevertheless, the one real thing that we do have to say, we never say." What i...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/supporting-committees
August 29, 2010
The Weizmann Institute is assisted by a network of well-established international supporting committees that secure its future, provide essential resources for continuous development, and inform the public in Israel and the world at large about the vision and accomplishments of W...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/fill-it-hydrogen
March 2, 1996
The cars of the future may run on hydrogen, the lightest and most prevalent element in the universe. Tests carried out with experimental automobiles have already shown hydrogen to be a highly efficient and pollution-free fuel. Its production, however, is prohibitively expensive....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/fit-win-weizmann-institute-scientists-win-biochemical-docking-contest
March 27, 1996
REHOVOT, Israel -- March 20, 1996 -- Imagine trying to put together a three-dimensional puzzle while blindfolded. Weizmann Institute scientists have just won an informal international contest for performing an equally challenging task -- predicting how two large, convoluted prote...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/bed-and-blessing-date-ancient-religious-stopover-confirmed
April 1, 1996
REHOVOT, Israel -- March 27, 1996 -- The date of an ancient site that may have provided travelers with religious services "for the road" has now been confirmed by radiocarbon dating at the Weizmann Institute. The site, just west of the Israeli-Egyptian border, has intri...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/super-surprise
October 1, 2008
Tension between opposites is one of the pillars of human culture – from the evil counterparts of the good and all-powerful God in Western religions to Through the Looking Glass, in which Alice enters a world tha...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/ancient-cast-new-production
May 1, 2004
Shaped through time, biological cells are the ultimate engineering systems, able to perform the most advanced information processing known. They also produce a wonderland of materials - from over 100,000 proteins to the materials they help build: skin, record-strong spiderwe...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/yaakov-naan-vice-president-finance-and-administration
November 1, 1999
Yaakov Naan Yaakov Naan joined the Institute in 1996. His past occupations include planning high- and low-voltage electricity networks for the Israel Electric Corporation Ltd., as well as establishing and managing data and information processing units. He was al...
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