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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/sensing-trouble
October 1, 2006
A tiny sensor that uses organic molecules to detect problems – from asthma to hidden explosives – has been developed at the Weizmann Institute by Prof. Ron Naaman of the Chemical Physics Department, along with Prof. David Cahen of the Materials and Interfaces Department and Prof....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/precise-pattern
October 1, 2006
A team of researchers led by Prof. Irun Cohen of the Immunology Department has revealed the molecular mechanism of a vaccine for Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disorder in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's own insulin-producing cells. The vaccine...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/lost-thought-0
October 1, 2006
Can one literally “lose oneself” in an experience? Prof. Rafael Malach, Ilan Goldberg and Michal Harel of the Neurobiology Department found a scientific means of addressing this question – by scanning the brains of volunteers performing various mental tasks. The results...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/vive-la-difference
May 1, 2009
What's the difference between cancer cells that are killed by chemotherapy and the ones that survive the treatment? To tackle this question, Ariel Coh...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-education/next-generation
May 1, 2009
Forty-two outstanding undergraduate students from science institutions throughout Israel – including Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Technion, Hadassah Academic College in Jerusalem and the Jerusalem College of Engineering – rec...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/hard-rain
October 1, 2006
A Weizmann Institute scientist and his colleagues caused a storm in the atmospheric research community a few years back when they suggested that tiny airborne particles known as aerosols may be among the main culprits in human-generated climate change. Aerosols affect clou...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-education/virtual-mentors
May 1, 2009
Aside from conducting her postdoctoral studies in the Institute's Neurobiology Department, Dr. Neta Rimmerman also mentors an 11th-grade student from Holon. Dr. Netta Maoz of the Davidson Institute of Science Education believes that girls who are about to choose their matricul...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events-science-culture/water-fun
May 1, 2009
How do you launch a water rocket? How do you get a flower to bloom? Why don't fish freeze in winter? The Weizmann Institute's Clore Garden of Science, under the aegis of the Davidson Institute, dedicated the whole of the past year's summer activities and festivities to the subjec...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teachingcampus/visiting-scientist-nazareth
May 1, 2009
Dr. Rafi Safadi makes his way daily from his home in Nazereth to the Weizmann Institute of Science campus. Until recently, he served as Head of the Research Unit and head of a physics education group at the A...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/fueling-future
October 1, 2006
"Developing alternative means of producing energy in the forms that humankind needs is crucial to dealing with the ongoing energy crisis,” Weizmann Institute President Prof. Ilan Chet said recently. He went on: “Creating fresh, sustainable methods of satisfying the wo...
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