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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 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
Moodify, a company based on research from Prof. Noam Sobel’s lab, is introducing a product that can eliminate smells from cars – and improve our state of mind. Israel21C reports.
November 05, 2019
In a remarkable breakthrough, Prof. Michal Irani has created a photo-editing technique that uses “deep internal learning” to edit photos – without training. The method, called Double-DIP, mimics human vision.
July 10, 2019
As Chemistry World reports, Weizmann’s Ilya Averbukh and colleagues at the University of British Columbia have “been able to control the spatial orientation of chiral molecules with light.” The group built an optical centrifuge to achieve this feat, which can help scientists control molecular dynamics in new ways.
June 20, 2019
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