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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events--science-culture/science-plus-festival
May 1, 2002
Offering an assortment of exhibitions, competitions, workshops, shows, tours, and lectures targeting the entire family, the 3-day festival was a celebration of science and technology. It opened with a unique edutainment event, a 'Concert for Scientist and Orchestra,' featuring th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/smoking-out-decoy
May 1, 2002
The smaller an object, the larger the equipment needed to measure it. This rule of thumb comes to mind when looking up at the daunting nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) machinery in Prof. Jacob Anglister's laboratory. A member of the Department of Structural Biology...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-teaching/color-success
May 1, 2002
Want to convey an earthy/natural look or one of quiet prestige and sophistication? Colors have a profound influence on our impressions, emotions, and at times even on the choices we make - which explains why advertisers carefully consider color in developing marketi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/worms-secret
May 1, 2002
For centuries, biologists have been hard at work - each studying a tiny piece in the great puzzle of nature. The underlying belief has been that the examination of smaller and smaller parts of nature would, when all the findings were assembled, explain the whole. But so many...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/breaking-down-hard
May 1, 2007
Breaking down bone is a tough job. Yet our bones undergo remodeling every day of our lives, and old material must be cleared away so that new bone can form. The heavyweights of the breakdown team are cells called osteoclasts that specialize in digesting bone. In disease...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/take-chance-me
May 1, 2007
In the epic endeavor to understand the brain, scientists have suggested a number of theories as to how patterns of basic electrical signals become sensations of taste, sight and sound. A leading theory has now been called into question by Dr. Ilan Lampl of the Weizmann...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/genome-races
October 1, 2000
Time was when highly trained and motivated teams, often urged on by patriotic fervor, would set out to explore vast geographical unknowns. Mount Everest, the Poles, and the moon were checked off one by one. The human genome project, say many, is this...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/enzyme-out-water
May 1, 2007
Even in the most thoroughly researched fields, surprises can still turn up. Once in a while these surprises challenge the accepted wisdom, even when that wisdom is well founded in fact....
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/story-twist
May 1, 2007
Doing the twist may have faded away along with other fads of the 1960s, but the twist promises to make a comeback in the world of tiny molecular structures. As described recently in the first issue of the new journal Nature Nanotechnology, Dr. Ernesto Joselevich and his...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/good-vibrations
May 1, 2007
Modern hearing aids are a boon for a great many deaf people, but the quality of the sound they live with is still inferior to that of hearing people. It’s hard to fault the technology – the apparatus we’re born with for translating air vibrations into comprehensible sound is...
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