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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/scientific-archaeology/capturing-voices-past
May 1, 2003
Making the past come alive is a difficult task, requiring both a keen understanding of human culture and history as well as sophisticated analytical tools. A new program at the Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science aims to tackle this chall...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/message-bottle
May 1, 1998
When it comes to do-it-yourself, some people aren't content with merely assembling bookshelves or twisting a coathanger to provide a quick-and-dirty solution. It all started when Professor Daniel Zajfman of the Weizmann Institute's Particle Physics Department consulted with...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/600000000
May 1, 1998
You read right. This is the total dollar worth of products brought to market last year, thanks to research coming out of the Weizmann Institute. This information comes from a 1997 survey conducted by the Tel Aviv-based accounting firm Kost Levary & Forer, a...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/physics-falling-leaves
October 1, 2001
The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind. - Ezra Pound, The River Merchant's Wife Neuron movement, cell division, and spreading fires. What do these disparate phenomena have in common? Each has been examined in the lab of the Weizmann Institute's Prof. Elisha Moses, who...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/shaky-ground
October 1, 2001
How do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by falling grains of sand? - Victor Hugo, Les Miserables They're all around us - from dust, to sand dunes, to broken rocks in the earth's crust, and even to plant seeds or coffee. Known as granular materi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/marriage-made-lab-heaven
May 1, 1998
"In 1971, a masters student came to work in my lab in Siberia. It was Elena.In 1976 I married her," says a beaming Professor Alex Girshovich of the Weizmann Institute's Biological Chemistry Department. Dr. Elena Bochkareva, sitting opposite him, smiles demu...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/science-culture/search-roots-leads-stars
May 1, 1998
"In March 1995, I was doing some joint scientific research with a colleague at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. After a long day of work, we went downtown to visit the Mormon Family History Library. I had never been there before." So begins the genealogical jou...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/bubble-bubble-toil-and-dna-damage
May 1, 1998
When you have an X-ray, what happens to your DNA? When a cancer patient undergoes radiation treatments, how much is too much? The precise answers to these questions may dwell inside a tiny gas bubble. Damage to DNA is believed to be the major cause of cell mutation and...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/family-story
May 1, 1998
"The immune system fascinated me, even in high school," says Dr. Martin Becker, Feinberg Graduate School Ph.D., '73, now president and CEO of XTL, a company developing therapeutics for viral and autoimmune diseases, and cancer. "The technology that we purchased from Yeda, th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/light-therapy-gets-green-light
May 1, 1998
"We're developing a new therapy for cancer treatment. We injected a mouse with a non-toxic chemotherapy drug that you make toxic by illuminating the tumor. When you turn off the light, that's it," explains Professor Yoram Salomon, Biological Regulation Department, about the resea...
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