Study author Prof. Elisabetta Boaretto conducted the highly precise dating of the ancient Greek branch.
August 10, 2018
RIO DE JANEIRO — Ecuador’s National Congress honored an Israeli Nobel laureate. Ada Yonath, who won the 2009 prize for chemistry, received a medal of scientific merit from the National Assembly’s president, Elizabeth Cabezas, at a ceremony Thursday in Quito, newspaper El Telegrafo reported. “The National Assembly of Ecuador highlights the role of an Israeli expert who participates in the specialized international meeting promoting cooperation and support links to disseminate their vital research, and strengthen inter-exchange opportunities between Israel and Ecuador,” a statement said about the event.
August 07, 2018
The cancer detection screening company was founded by two Weizmann Institute alums, both of whom received PhDs in genetics.
July 26, 2018
The Weizmann Institute’s Prof. Ron Milo writes in World Economic Forum about his recent global-biomass research, explaining the impact of humanity’s actions on our world.
July 25, 2018
Weizmann studies of the sophisticated, complex zebrafish eye have implications for treating human diseases, reports China’s Xinhua news agency.
July 20, 2018
Ten moons have been discovered orbiting Jupiter – 9 “normal” outer ones and an “oddball” – scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington reported on Tuesday. Including the previously unknown moons, Jupiter now has 79 known moons orbiting the giant planet, more than any other planet in our Solar System. Saturn has the second highest number of known moons: 61.
July 17, 2018
On a sun-parched patch of land in Rehovot, Israel, two neuroscientists peer into the darkness of a 200-metre-long tunnel of their own design. The fabric panels of the snaking structure shimmer in the heat, while, inside, a study subject is navigating its dim length. Finally, out of the blackness bursts a bat, which executes a mid-air backflip to land upside down, hanging at the tunnel’s entrance.
July 11, 2018
At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Weizmann President Prof. Daniel Zajfman spoke about the potential for quantum computers to affect free will. The Atlantic, co-host of the event, reports.
June 30, 2018
Wired reports that Weizmann’s Ran Raz has provided the first-ever “evidence that quantum computers possess a computing capacity” that today’s computers can only dream of.
June 24, 2018
