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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/nobel-prize-chemistry-2009
May 1, 2010
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded on December 10 to Prof. Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Prof. Yonath is the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the past 45 years, and only the fourth in the prize’s 108-year history. The prize,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/color-it-pink
May 1, 2010
Banana yellow, lime green, plum purple: Our first association with a fruit is often its enticing color. But for plants, color is about much more than aesthetics. The purple compounds in...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/scientific-archaeology/witches-galilee
May 1, 2009
Fifty tortoise shells, a human foot and the body parts of creatures that include a wild boar, an eagle and a leopard – all found in the 12,000-year-old grave of a petite...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/scents-and-sensibility
May 1, 2010
From Proust’s madeleines to the overbearing food critic in the movie Ratatouille who’s transported back to his childhood by the aroma of stew, artists have long been aware that some odors spontaneously evoke strong memories. Why do smells figure this way in the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/when-woman-more-man
May 1, 2009
Men and women might appear to come from different planets, but in reality, male and female brains are largely similar. So similar, in fact, that at the flip of a single genetic switch, calm, nurturing female mic...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/prize-crossing-boundaries
May 1, 2010
A doctoral student with a degree in physics, who conducts research on biological systems in the Faculty of Chemistry, has received an award given by the Faculty of Mathematics. To Roie Shlomovitz, a student in the gr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/cross-flow
May 1, 2009
Last spring, a small research boat made an unusual trip – from one side to the other of the northwestern-most tip of the Red Sea. On this crossing (of the Gulf of Eilat or the Gulf of Aqaba, depending on one's map) were researchers from Jordan, Israel and the U...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/cadets
May 1, 2004
The life stories of blood stem cells, rich in suspense and danger, could fill volumes. A new study at the Weizmann Institute of Science has come out with a dynamic model that, for the first time, captures these stories on film. Every 15 minutes a stem cell travels from...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/origin-cell
May 1, 2009
The sequencing of the fruit fly genome several years ago has given researchers powerful new tools: Today's lab fruit flies come in hundreds of different varieties, each with a diffe...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching/curie-yonath
May 1, 2010
Chemist “From Marie Curie to Ada Yonath – 100 Years of Women in Chemistry” – was the title of the annual meeting of the National Center for Chemistry Teachers. The meeting, organized...
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