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Environment - 05.01.2025
Weizmann Institute of Science Moves to 100% Green Electricity

Event - Health - 11.11.2024
’Eight Shining Examples of Excellence’

Research Management - 27.08.2024
The Weizmann Institute of Science Ranked among the World’s Top Ten Academic Institutions

Life Sciences - Health - 19.05.2024
Excellence, Resilience and Diligence: Meet the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Honorary PhD Recipients

Health - Innovation - 15.04.2024
Shaping the Role of Future Physician-Scientists

Astronomy / Space - Physics - 27.03.2024
A Hundred Million Suns: The Most Complete Portrait of a Supernova
Humankind has long turned to the skies in search of answers. Accounts of supernovae - exploding stars - go back thousands of years, but while we know today that these events create the building blocks of life itself, the conditions that cause a star to explode still remain very much a mystery.

Campus - Social Sciences - 08.12.2023
This Far, No Further

Health - Pharmacology - 10.11.2023
Moonshot Provides Blueprint for Future Pandemic Drugs
An open-access format for drug discovery is helping design medications against potential viral threats An international crowdsourced campaign to discover an anti-COVID-19 drug has created a blueprint for the accelerated, patent-free development of drugs to treat viral threats to humanity.

Social Sciences - 16.10.2023
Standing Together against Terror and Violence: A Call to the International Science Community

Campus - Innovation - 01.06.2023
319 Ambassadors of Groundbreaking Science

Event - 23.05.2023
Weizmann Institute of Science and Max Planck Society Create a Joint Postdoctoral Program

Astronomy / Space - Innovation - 21.02.2023
NASA to Launch Israel’s First Space Telescope Mission, ULTRASAT
A Weizmann Institute of Science and Israel Space Agency flagship, the instrument will enter orbit in 2025; it's expected to revolutionize research of the universe NASA will launch Israel's first spac

Life Sciences - Physics - 07.11.2022
Expanding the Limits of the Possible

Health - Life Sciences - 18.08.2022
Sweetness That Comes at a Price: Sugar Substitutes May Affect the Human Body in Unanticipated Ways
A controlled trial suggests that these non-nutritive sweeteners affect the human gut microbes and may alter glucose metabolism; the effects vary greatly among individuals Non-nutritive sweeteners - a

Life Sciences - Chemistry - 27.05.2022
Michael Sela, 1924-2022

Chemistry - Physics - 13.02.2017
Controlling Electron Spin for Efficient Water Splitting
Controlling Electron Spin for Efficient Water Splitting
Water is made of oxygen and hydrogen, and splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen for fuel is a promising path for alternative energy. One of the main obstacles to making hydrogen production a reality is that current methods of water splitting result in hydrogen peroxide also being formed: This affects both the efficiency of the reaction and the stability of the production process.

Life Sciences - Health - 13.02.2017
Keeping Up the Pressure
Keeping Up the Pressure
In addition to the classic stress response in our bodies - an acute reaction that gradually abates when the threat passes - our bodies appear to have a separate mechanism that deals only with chronic stress.

Life Sciences - Health - 26.01.2017
Programmed Proteins Might Help Prevent Malaria
Programmed Proteins Might Help Prevent Malaria
Despite decades of malaria research, the disease still afflicts hundreds of millions and kills around half a million people each year - most of them children in tropical regions.

Earth Sciences - Chemistry - 26.01.2017
A Rusty Green Early Ocean?
A Rusty Green Early Ocean?
Though they may seem rock solid, the ancient sedimentary rocks called iron formations - the world's chief economic source of iron ore - were once dissolved in seawater.

Life Sciences - Health - 12.01.2017
Bats Remember Directions
Bats Remember Directions
Embargoed until 14:00 EST, 21:00 Jerusalem time, Thurs. Jan. Navigating to a destination, whether you are a human or a bat, requires a complex set of calculations and interactions among brain cells. Weizmann Institute of Science researchers working with bats, have now revealed the network of cells that encode the direction of one's destination.

Astronomy / Space - 09.01.2017
A Multiple-Impact Origin for the Moon
A Multiple-Impact Origin for the Moon
1600 London time / 1100 US Eastern Time on 09 January 2017/ 1800 Jerusalem time The formation of the Moon has remained something of a puzzle.

Astronomy / Space - Event - 15.12.2016
Mystery of Super Flash Solved
Mystery of Super Flash Solved
When astronomers and astrophysicists observe flashes of light in the dark sky, they assume they have seen a supernova.