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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/ignoring-siren-song
October 1, 2002
Detecting an intruder, the body sounds an alarm, alerting fighter cells to the site. How this intricate feat is pulled off - with immune cells coursing through the body's circulatory system knowing exactly which "exit"to take into nearby affected tissues - has...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/pulling-strings
October 1, 2002
You'd think physicists would be satisfied. It may have taken them several dozen years, but they did succeed in formulating the Standard Model - the widely accepted and so far most substan- tiated theory on the structure of matter in the universe. This theory nea...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/dna-trafficking
October 1, 2002
Though one thousand warrior-filled ships were sent to the ancient city of Troy, the city's layout and impregnable walls saved it from conquest. The turning point, as related in Homer's Iliad, was the famous scheme devised by a shrewd Greek strategist. The ta...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/light-lends-hand
October 1, 2002
Scientists are often attracted to either the very large or the very small. For Dr. Petr Kral, visiting theoretical physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the fascination lies at the Lilliputian end of the spectrum. He has a longstanding interest in trans...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/cancer-fights-back
October 1, 2002
It's war. And it's not just "out there,"but inside our bodies, where a fleet of immune agents is constantly on the lookout for rogue invaders - viruses, bacteria, and fungi. Over the past few decades, as scientists have tirelessly traced the micro-trenches of ou...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/letters-genetic-editor
October 1, 2002
Editors are a ruthless breed. They take a text the writer worked hard to produce, then heartlessly cut and paste, sometimes taking out entire paragraphs. All this is done for "editorial reasons"that no one can quite define. But the truth is, the editors are not t...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/awards-and-appointments/tikkun-olam
October 1, 2002
Though he will not take any credit, Chairman of the Board of Governors Gershon Kekst has played a crucial role in steering the Weizmann Institute of Science into greener pastures over a period of nine years. During this period, the Weizmann Institute famil...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events/priority-
October 1, 2002
Three years ago, William M. Davidson, a longtime friend of the Weizmann Institute, endowed the Institute with a singular venture that has enabled it to bring together all of its science education activities under one roof. This November, in the presence of Weizmann In...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/science-service-police
October 1, 2002
Dr. Elazar Tzadok, Director of the Identification and Forensic Science Division of the Israel Police, first donned his police uniform at the age of 49, with the rank of brigadier general. This occured in October 1999, one year before the outbreak of the recen...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/water-darkness-fire-and-light
October 1, 2002
Bursts of powerful, warm colors greet visitors at an exhibit by Ahuva Mirelman. Evoking the forces at play in the universe (one of the pictures is called Water, Darkness, Fire, and Light), the acrylic-on...
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