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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/learning-language
October 1, 2008
When learning a new language, it’s hard enough trying to follow a conversation between two native speakers, but when one is in a room full of natives all speaking at once, it can be nearly impossible. Dr. Nir Friedman of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/picking-speed
October 1, 2009
Charles Darwin realized that it's not money but mutations that make the world go round. Mutations drive evolution: They alter gene sequences, tweaking the function of their protein products and assuring the adaptability of organisms to ever-changing environments. In nature, pr...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/just-add-water
October 1, 2009
Take a metal complex. Add water and heat to 100°C for three days, stirring occasionally. Then add a generous amount of light and continue to “simmer” at room temperatu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/its-shape
October 1, 2008
Can one ever tell what’s in a pitcher just by looking at its shape? In the field of structural proteomics – the study of protein structure – shape is the key to understanding a protein’s biological activities. “Solving the spatial structure of proteins gives scientists i...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/tending-brain’s-garden
October 1, 2009
The developing brain resembles a well-tended garden. Budding neurons sprout bushy extensions; but with time, unneeded ext...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-made-institute/pioneering-new-field
October 1, 2008
Prof. Zeev Luz of the Institute’s Chemical Physics Department had wanted to be a teacher, and when he completed high school in 1950, there was a shortage of science teachers in the newly born state. The principal of his high school offered him a university scholarship –...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/star’s-life
October 1, 2009
S In the first observation of its kind, scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and San Diego State University succeeded in following the evolution of a star the size of 50 suns. As they watched, it exploded and then vanished from view to become a large black...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/science-teaching
October 1, 2008
When Prof. Yehudit (Judy) Dori was growing up in Givatayim, near Tel Aviv, education was all-important. “It’s the one thing no one can take away from you,” her mother, Rysia, a survivor of Auschwitz, and her father, Moshe, who escaped Romania just before the war, told he...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-made-institute/sharing-excitement
October 1, 2008
It took just a few words from a close friend and, instead of joining a research expedition to Antarctica – something he had planned while an undergraduate student of physics and meteorology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Dr. Moshe Rishpon found himself in a new...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/campus/broadening-horizons
August 10, 2010
Project C.A.M.P. (a Hebrew acronym for Active Science Groups) – of the Davidson Institute of Science Education – uses science education as a tool to empower and enhance the behavior and self-image of underprivileged high school students who have dropped out o...
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