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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/making-switch
October 1, 2005
From simple light fixtures to the latest in cell phone technology or medical equipment, electrical switches are wired into the circuit. Whether made of metal contacts or engraved in silicon, their basic function is to stop and start the flow of electrons. But as scientists a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/motion-illusion
October 1, 2000
For over 2,500 years, scientists and philosophers have been grappling with Zeno of Elea's famous paradox. More recently, scientists believed that the counterpart of this paradox, known as the quantum Zeno paradox, is realizable in the microscopic world governed by quantum physics...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/crystal-memories
October 1, 2005
In 1967, David Haas, a young postdoctoral researcher at the Institute, wrote a paper on a new process he'd developed for freezing biological crystals. Time passed; he changed careers and forgot about it. More than 30 years later, over a friendly lunch with a professor,...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/unofficial-liaison
October 1, 2005
Dr. Tareq Abu Hamed, from the village of Sur Baher, near East Jerusalem, is a great believer in the ability of science to bridge cultural, social and political g...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/stones
October 1, 2005
Remembering someone you loved bestows a form of eternal life on that person. This is the message of the play The Blue Bird by Belgian poet and Nobel laureate Maurice Maeterlinck. Another Belgian, Prof. Daniel Wagner of the Weizmann Institute's Materials and Interfaces De...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/people-and-events-science-culture/dream-house-minimal-cost
October 1, 2000
Can one build an ideal house at minimal cost? A pipe dream, claimed Eric Mendelsohn, the famous Jewish architect commissioned by Dr. Chaim Weizmann to design a house on Rehovot's sand dunes during the early 1930s. But Weizmann, first President of the State...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/world-science-salutes-weizmann-institute
May 1, 2000
David Baltimore, President, California Institute of Technology: Caltech salutes the Weizmann Institute, founded in a moment of optimism and devoted to excellence. It has never lost its commitment to the highest values of science and technology. Its succ...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/time-tunnel/time-tunnel-2
October 1, 2005
70 years ago “Members of the Zionist General Council at the Rehovoth Institute” Davar, April 10, 1935 (Translated from Hebrew) Away from the political platform, in the landscaped greenery of a quiet hill, removed from the hustle and bustle, at the chemistry research insti...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/filters-mind
May 1, 2000
Despite more than a century of research on inhibitory neurons, very little is known about how this small population (10-20% of brain neurons) exerts its controlling effect on the brain. Inhibitory neurons are pivotal for normal brain development, learning, and memory, s...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/how-sea-urchin-grows-new-spines-0
May 1, 2005
When the sea urchin’s tough yet brittle spines are broken off, they grow back within a few days. A team led by Profs. Lia Addadi and Steve Weiner of the Weizmann Institute’s Structural Biology Department discovered the key to this engineering wonder: The o...
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