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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/dr-weizmann’s-bug-strikes-again
October 2, 2005
Chaim Weizmann would surely be amazed to learn that the bacterium linked to his struggle for the creation of the State of Israel now promises to perform a new international feat. It was while working as a research chemist in Manchester shortly before...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/double-agent
October 2, 2005
In the life of a cell, just as in the course of a person’s life, there are times that call for a break in the routine; a moment to run a “self-check” to review the state of one’s internal health and s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/its-perfect-protein-match-0
October 1, 2000
Searching for a soul mate, new friends, or just fresh contacts? Turns out that proteins have similar "goals." However, shaking off their single status generally doesn't come easy. Biochemist turned protein matchmaker Dr. Gideon Schreiber took their fate to h...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/smooth-turbulence
October 2, 2005
Water rushing through pipes, currents in the ocean, weather patterns, airplanes taking off, blood running in veins, chemicals churning in a mixer, even milk being stirred into coffee: all are governed by a single phenomenon – turbulence. Scientists and mathematicians have be...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/time-frames
October 2, 2005
Right timing is in all things the most important factor. ---Hesiod (about 800 BC) Everyone, from professional athletes to stock market investors to politicians, can tell you that timing is crucial. A path...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/math-computer-science/human-octopus
October 1, 2005
The freedom to choose between many possibilities doesn’t always make life easier. For example, deciding which fruit to buy is simple if you’ve stopped by a roadside strawberry stand, but it can b...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/down-origins
October 1, 2000
One of the greatest mysteries, and one that continues to fascinate scientists worldwide, concerns how life emerged on primeval earth. The accepted notion is that before the appearance of living organisms there was a stage of chemical evolution that involved selec...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/fat-factor
October 1, 2005
Diabetes has become epidemic in the Western world: One out of 12 suffers from type 2 (adult onset) diabetes, and the number of diabetics (presently 150 million worldwide) is expected to double in the next 20 years. Though studies have laid the blame on the growing obesity sc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/eureka
October 1, 2005
Archimedes reportedly shouted: “Eureka!” from his bath when he realized that a sinking object displaces a mass of water equal to its weight (as opposed to an equal volume of water). Ever since, the concept of specific gravity, known to schoolchildren and physicists alike, ha...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/disarming-alarm
October 1, 2005
One of the mysteries surrounding HIV infection is how the virus manages to hide out in the very immune system cells that are meant to protect the body from harmful invaders. How does the viru...
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