Aldo Shemesh

hot water

How Hot Was the Ocean?

19.08.2019

Environment, Climate

Isotopes in iron oxides laid down two billion years ago hold clues to the conditions in which they were created

illustration: heating up of the Earth (global warming)

01.05.2004

Environment, Energy, Plants and Agriculture, Climate, Organic Chemistry

Several research projects in the Environmental Sciences and Energy Research Department at the Weizmann Institute are aimed at...

Memories from Africa

Memories from Africa

01.10.1998

Oxygen levels in 2000-year-old lake sediments from Mt. Kenya hint at previous episodes of climate change

Sudden Climate Warming Took Place in Africa 2,000 Years Ago, Weizmann Institute Study Reveals

Sudden Climate Warming Took Place in Africa 2,000 Years Ago, Weizmann Institute Study Reveals

14.08.1998

REHOVOT, Israel - August 14, 1998 -A sudden warming of climate lasting several centuries took place in...

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The Limits of Computing

Computers can solve complex problems but they are far from omnipotent. Prof. Ran Raz of the Weizmann Institute's Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department is trying to portray the limits...

The Coin Toss Paradox

Can a game with “quantum” rules beat the odds?

Israeli Researchers to Participate in European Commission Flagship

The European Commission has officially announced the selection of the Human Brain Project (HBP) as one of its two Future Emerging Technologies (FET) Flagship projects.