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https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/how-nose-knows
October 1, 1999
Whether sniffing flowers, freshly baked bread, or the fumes of a passing automobile, the human olfactory system is an amazing scent-sleuth, capable of distinguishing between millions of different smells. Now Weizmann Institute scientists have revealed one of the secrets behind th...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/death-protein
October 1, 1999
For the proteins in our body there's not much room for mercy. If old or damaged proteins were allowed to accumulate in a cell, it would soon become useless. Thus, a sophisticated recycling system quickly breaks down deficient...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/made-institute/real-success-out-virtual-places
October 1, 1996
Prof. Ehud Shapiro is riding a wave of success. The 41-year-old Weizmann Institute academic has sailed into the business world, thanks to an innovative interactive computer program that has captured the excitement of the on-line universe. Israel-born Shapi...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/seeing-light
October 1, 1999
Scientists are just beginning to understand how plants use light for nourishment and people use light to see. Presently a team of researchers, among them Weizmann Institute scientists, have put into question what happens in the first millionth of a millionth of a second afte...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/earth-sciences/atlas-shrugs
October 1, 1999
At some point in its history, the keystone in the arch of the Byzantine church in the ancient city of Mamshit "slipped." This indicates that for a split second the arch was stretched open, causing the stone to drop: but then, a microsecond later, the arch was pressed back into po...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/benefits-immaturity
October 1, 1999
Weizmann Institute researchers have developed a molecule that allows blood stem cells -- the body's most primitive and most immature cells, which originate in the bone marrow -- to multiply without maturation in the test...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/threads-silver-threads-gold
October 1, 1999
In 1949, when a decision was made to prepare an appropriate national flag for the new office of the President of the State of Israel, the task was assigned to Lotta Engel-Hecker . No one was more suited to the job than this lady, who had already proved her skill in design...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/space-physics/may-one-and-only-force-be-you
May 1, 1999
Once upon a time the universe was a simple place. It was composed of a few particles interacting by means of just one basic force. But being a very hot and extremely energetic universe, it existed for only a few seconds following the Big Bang. As the seconds passed, the energy sp...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/marrow
May 1, 1999
Dr. Tsvee Lapidot is in a race to the finish. This is not a race to win a trophy, but to find a means of saving lives otherwise lost when bone marrow transplants just don't take. "We discovered that human ste...
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/just-joking-seriously
May 1, 1999
Prof. Sergei Yakovenko As a child growing up in the former Soviet Union, there was no doubt in Sergei Yakovenko's mind that he would one day be a chemist. When he was 10, he read that phosphorus, a chemical element that glows in the dark, could be produced by bo...
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