About Us
Founded in 1944, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science develops philanthropic support for the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and advances its mission of science for the benefit of humanity.
As Israel21C reports, Prof. Noam Sobel’s findings could lead to digitized smells, meaning they could be added to television, computers, phones, and other devices
November 25, 2020
The Times of Israel reports on Prof. Noam Sobel’s “smell map,” which could lead to “smellovision TVs, scented digital photos that have a whiff of vacation, and technology that can “print” any odor.”
November 11, 2020
Prof. Shahal Ilani and MIT colleagues discovered that magic-angle quantum phases come from a previously unknown, high-energy “parent state.” Science Magazine reports.
June 22, 2020
As Wired reports, Weizmann and Ben Gurion University researchers showed that lightbulbs can be used to eavesdrop.
June 12, 2020
Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere from phones to bikes – and they can catch fire. Weizmann Institute PhD alum Niles Fleischer, CEO of ALGOLiON, has developed software that “gives a week’s warning before a battery catches fire,” says Israel21C.
April 21, 2020
Electrons spin. It's a fundamental part of their existence. Some spin “up” while others spin “down.” Scientists have known this for about a century, thanks to quantum physics.
March 09, 2020
To heat a slice of pizza, you probably wouldn’t consider first chilling it in the fridge. But a theoretical study suggests that cooling, as a first step before heating, may be the fastest way to warm up certain materials. In fact, such precooling could lead sometimes to exponentially faster heating, two physicists calculate in a study accepted in Physical Review Letters.
March 02, 2020
The concept of time crystals comes from the realm of counterintuitive mind-melding physics ideas that may actually turn out to have real-world applications. Now comes news that a paper proposes merging time crystals with topological superconductors for applications in error-free quantum computing, extremely precise timekeeping and more.
March 02, 2020
In October 2019, Google announced that its quantum computer, Sycamore, had done a calculation in three minutes and 20 seconds that would have taken the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years. “Quantum supremacy,” Google claimed for itself. We now have a quantum computer, it was saying, capable of performing calculations that no regular, “classical” computer is capable of doing in a reasonable time.
February 24, 2020
©2021 American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science