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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/wolf-foundation-fellowship
October 1, 2009
Two Weizmann Institute students were among this year’s recipients of the Wolf Foundation Fellowship for Excellent Ph.D. Students. The fellowships were recently presented in a ceremony honoring the memory of Dr. Moshe Gilboa, former active chairman of the Wolf Foundation Coun...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events-/caressing-environment
October 1, 2009
About 10 years ago, Prof. Dan Yakir gathered a few graduate students to deliberate on ways to promote informal student discussions and an exchange of ideas among themselves on environmental issues. This brain-storming session led to th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/power-emotion
May 2, 2008
H Do you remember where you were when the first man landed on the moon? Can you recall the day your first child was born? And what did you eat for breakfast last Monday? Many people can still answer the first questions in detail, even when those events happene...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/common-scents
May 1, 2008
Most would agree that roses smell good; old sweaty socks do not. What makes one smell pleasant and another odious? Is our perception of smell based on a physical reality, such as the chemical make...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/taking-risks
May 1, 2008
Every time a scientist embarks on a new experiment, he or she is taking a chance: The results are never known in advance, and all possibilities are open. Nature, in this sense, is a great laboratory; the forces of evolution are continually taking chanc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/outside-fold
May 1, 2008
Of the 20,000 or so genes carried in each and every one of our cells, only a limited number are expressed – “turned on” to produce proteins – at any time in any given cell type. Scientists have long sought to define the basic rules of gene express...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/music-quantum-noise
May 1, 2008
If classical physics called the tune, particles would become as still and silent as statues when the temperature reached absolute zero; but these particles actually continue to dance to the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/living-force
May 1, 2008
The number of “species” in the “genus” Scientist is diverse – ranging from biologists to geneticists, chemists to physicists, and everything in between – each adapted to his or her own particular niche. What would happen if two such species were to “crossbreed”? Once inconceivabl...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/streamlined
May 1, 2008
Head tucked, arms and legs stretched straight – a swimmer has now assumed a streamlined position. Sperm, those consummate swimmers, go to far more extreme lengths to achieve t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/going-green
May 1, 2008
Oil from Algae What are the best crops to grow for biofuels? Corn and sugarcane, presently converted to ethanol in Brazil and the USA, consume large amounts of petrochemicals and arable land in cultivation, and usi...
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