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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/chemical-attraction
October 1, 2007
High school graduates who enjoy science come to Israel to participate in the Weizmann Institute of Science's Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute (ISSI). They expe...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-education/testing-waters
October 1, 2007
What is the age of water in aquifers? Shifa Mahamid, a high school student from the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm near Haifa, has been conducting research to try to answer this question. This research earned her 3rd prize in the "Young Scientists in Israel" competition run by the Mini...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teachingcampus/coming-america
October 1, 2007
A group of 40 high school students from the Solomon Schechter Day School in New York recently visited the Weizmann Institute. This visit came about following the participation of high school science teachers from North America, Canada and Israel in the Sheila Schwartz Family Inte...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/blue-planet
October 1, 2007
Blue Planet, a curriculum package for middle school students on the link between man and the environment, written by Weizmann Institute scientists, has won recognition by UNESCO as a worldwide model in environmental studies. This international organization is promoting and financ...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/first-molecular-keypad-lock
May 2, 2007
Keypad locks, such as those for preventing auto theft, allow an action to take place only when the right “password” is entered: a series of numbers punched in a pre-set sequence. Now a team of scientists at the Wei...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/tough-enough
May 2, 2007
Being only one ten-thousandth the thickness of a human hair, yet displaying structural properties akin to those of diamonds, carbon nanotubes are heralded as the biggest of the little things that are set to revolutionize the world. These tiny hollow cylinders made from sh...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/time-tested-transplants
May 1, 2007
In hemophilia, a mutated gene prevents the production of a critical blood-clotting protein. What if the body could be induced – by a transplant of healthy tissue – to begin producing this protein? In research recently published in the Proceedings of the Nation...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/lucky-brake
May 1, 2007
When a normal cell complies with a signal telling it to divide, it also begins to activate a “braking system” that eventually stops cell division. If that system is faulty, cancerous growth can result. As reported in Nature Genetics, Weizman...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/gaining-momentum
October 1, 2004
An accidental discovery 40 years ago led to an improvement in firefighting techniques: When polymers (long chains of molecules) were added to the water pumped through firehoses, that water projected over greater distances - of critical importance to those living and working...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/technology/wet-scans
October 1, 2004
The scanning electron microscope (SEM) has been a basic research tool for 50 years, and for all of those years scientists have been looking for better ways to observe biological samples under its beam. The problem is that biological samples cannot withstand the vacuum inside...
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