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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/centers-excellence-particle-detectors
October 1, 1996
The Israel Science Foundation has recently initiated the establishment of Centers of Excellence at the country's leading academic institutions. The goal of this program -- to provide recognition and support for the work of outstanding groups of local scientists engaged in researc...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/dust-air
May 1, 2001
The incurable nomad, dust travels enormous distances. Originating primarily in deserts, dust from Africa may end up in Florida, while dust from China can be found in California. Dust particles floating in the air absorb incoming solar radiation as well as radiation emitt...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/scientific-archaeology/new-look-ancient-puzzles
October 1, 1996
Ancient sites are revealing new secrets, thanks to Weizmann Institute researchers, who are active in applying modern science to the traditionally humanities-based field of archaeology to create a new discipline, scientific archaeology. "There's a need to provide a scientific...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/life-yielding-deaths
May 1, 2001
In almost every movie plot you'll find "good guys" and "bad guys." In our bodies, cancer-related genes can be similarly divided into two such groups - cancer suppressors and cancer promoters. A few years ago Prof. Adi Kimchi of the Weizmann Institute's Molecular Genetics Dep...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/forest-fire
May 1, 2001
Autoimmune diseases can be likened to a sweeping forest fire in which the immune system attacks one of the body's proteins, mistaking it for an "enemy," and then proceeds to attack other proteins in the affected organ. This relatively recent insight into the "forest fire-like" de...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/working-enemy
May 1, 2001
Glaucoma is the leading cause of blindness in adults, affecting one percent of the adult population. Weizmann Institute scientists have now succeeded in putting the brakes on progressive eyesight loss in experimental animals afflicted with a glaucoma-like disease. Their study, re...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/research-potential-cancer-vaccine
October 1, 1996
A synthetic vaccine produced at the Weizmann Institute stopped lung cancer from spreading in mice and offers hope as a potential treatment form human cancers. One of the major problems in cancer is that the immune system does not react to tumors with sufficient vigor, e...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/secrets-secretion
May 1, 2001
Let's talk about secretion. This suggestion would probably cause more than a few raised eyebrows - especially if offered by the media. But science writing has its fair share of unusual tasks, which mirror the incredible diversity of scientific research. Take for instance the...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/corn-yield-tripled-kenya
October 1, 1996
Corn yields on experimental plots in Kenya have tripled, thanks to a new weed-fighting strategy developed by the Institute's Prof. Jonathan Gressel in collaboration with Kenyan researchers Dr. Joel Ransom and Gordon Abayo. A parasitic weed known as witchweed (Striga...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/3-d-glasses-robots
October 1, 1996
The trouble with many robots and other automated systems equipped with artificial vision is that their eyes "see" the world as two-dimensional. As a result, they have great difficulty in assessing the relative positions of objects. Existing ways for robots to reconstruc...
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