https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/observing-law
May 2, 2008
The motions involved in writing, waving goodbye or turning a jumprope all obey the same law of movement. As far back as the 19th century,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/clinging-dear-life
October 1, 2009
Xeroderma pigmentosum is a rare hereditary disease in which sun-damaged skin is unable to mend itself. Its sufferers run a risk of skin cancer that is 5,000 times higher than normal. Ten years ago, scientists discovered that the genetic defect behind one form of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/built-fold
October 1, 2009
Embedded in the genome is yet another code made up of two-letter signals that repeat themselves periodically. Discovered in 2006 by Dr. Eran Segal of the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department and his group, this code appears at intervals of 10 base...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cells-move-millipedes
October 1, 2009
How do white blood cells – immune system “soldiers” – cross the blood vessel barrier to get to the site of infection or injury? Until recently, it was believed that these cells advanced like inchworms, sticking front and back, folding and extending to...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-education/it-safe
October 1, 2009
Build a safe that is uncrackable! Fifty teams of high school students from Israel and abroad recently took up this challenge set by the Davidson Institute of Science Education, which leads, coordinates and operates the educational activities of the We...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events-/think-about-it
October 1, 2009
Logic and thinking games were the theme of a unique conference that recently took place at the Davidson Institute of Science Education. The fifth Games and Puzzles Mini-Conference attracted approximate...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-education/mix-and-match
October 1, 2009
Israel’s Chemistry Tournament finals were recently hosted at the Davidson Institute of Science Education. The competition, now in its third year, challenges teams of students to create a mixture of chemicals and then try to identify th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-education/codeguru-xtreme
October 1, 2009
A virtual survival competition, “CodeGuru Xtreme” – an annual computerized version of the reality TV game show “Survivor” – was recently held at the Davidson Institute of Science Education. This year, eigh...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-education/science-and-music
October 1, 2009
Participants in the ISSI camp. A presidential welcome The president of the Weizmann Institute, Prof. Daniel Zajfman, and his wife, Joelle, welcomed 80 talented high school youths to the 41st Dr. Bessie F. L...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/campus/full-bloom
October 1, 2009
Outstanding "Perach" tutors with Amos Carmeli (top, left). True devotion “All the knowledge and abilities we possess are useless if we do not share them with the society in which we live,”...