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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/reporting-live
October 1, 2007
Reporters broadcast news about current events, trends and people "live" from the scene. Today's viewers need only tune in to this news, wherever and whenever it is taking place, to find out what's going on in the wo...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/wrap-stars
October 1, 2007
T he very instant we touch something hot, our hand recoils and we immediately feel pain: The nerve signals informing us of our mistake are transmitted faster than the blink of an eye. These signals zip up and down thi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/code-born
October 1, 2007
In the opening scene of the film Twin Peaks, directed by David Lynch, a black and white TV screen flickers painfully, intrusively, meaninglessly. When an ax falls on the screen, exploding it to the accom...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/protein-ups-and-downs
October 1, 2007
It was the discovery of insulin's role in diabetes that paved the way for the development of a treatment. Hoping to repeat that success, scientists worldwide have put enormous effort into deciphering the roles of...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciencesmade-institute/straw-broke-bacterium’s-back
October 1, 2006
With a view overlooking the lush green campus of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Dr. Moshe Frommer, general manager of the Rehovot-based company, Purofilter®, sits on his home balcony in Rehovot and reminisces. It was here that he first arrived, 45 years ago,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/symphony-second
October 1, 2007
Each material plays its own unique "melody," if only we know how to listen in. When molecules are exposed to a magnetic field, the atoms in it begin to spin, and each spinning atomic nucleus emits waves of electromagnetic radiation in a distinctive pattern. For s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/web-protection
October 1, 2007
"There is always a certain charm to exploring nature, trying to understand how the world works," says Dr. Guy Levy-Yurista. He was fortunate enough to grow up close to the Weizmann Institute of Science, where the many youth activities that the Institute had to...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/breaking-silence
October 1, 2007
Working toward breaking a silence to which millions of children and adults are condemned, Karen Avraham, Associate Professor of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University and Chair of the Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry, has been studying...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/words-past
October 1, 2006
At age 14, Zahava (Laskier) Scherz discovered by chance that she was not her father’s only child. “I accidentally came across a photo album,” she remembers. “In the album was a picture of a girl hugging a little boy. That girl looked like me, and when I asked my father who...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/art-complex-systems
October 1, 2007
The inherent beauty of flowers has aroused the imagination and emotions of man in innumerable ways since the dawn of history. "Flowers are like the pleasures of the world," exclaimed William Shakespeare. Claude Monet owed the fact that he became a painter to flowers...
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