In warming climates, mid-latitude storms will travel further toward the poles before they reach their maximum intensity - and this, scientists say, will be the ‘new normal’. The study suggests that impacts on weather and climate will be strongest in regions close to the northeastern ocean boundaries, such as the UK and the US west coast.
November 13, 2017
Researchers on the quest to solve the puzzle of what causes deafness got one small step closer with the announcement that scientists at Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science have mapped a certain type of RNA (a molecule essential to the coding and expression of genes) that exists in close proximity to the genes related to hearing.
November 12, 2017
New Scientist reports on the mess Triton, the largest of Neptune’s many moons, made when it joined that planet’s lunar group. A Weizmann scientist and her Colorado colleague “used a series of computer simulations to figure out what the Neptune system was like before Triton barrelled in.”
November 10, 2017
November 14 is World Diabetes Day and the month of November is National Diabetes Month in the United States. While there is not yet a cure for diabetes, many Israeli researchers and companies offer improved approaches for avoiding, managing and treating the condition. Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas cannot make insulin – the hormone that regulates blood sugar — or when the body cannot make good use of the insulin it makes.
November 09, 2017
In this video on Business Insider, Prof. Eran Segal explains why what – and when – we eat is so important.
November 02, 2017
In October, LIGO and its European counterpart, VIRGO, witnessed gravitational waves rippling out from a breathtaking collision between two neutron stars. This unprecedented event looked like yet another triumph for a new kind of astronomy, one that could use gravitational waves to probe some of the universe’s deepest mysteries. But in all the excitement, most people didn’t notice that something had died: a whole group of theories that posit a universe with no dark matter.
October 31, 2017
Placebos have been shown to help people work out harder and do better on memory tests. As New Scientist reports, two Weizmann scientists examined “whether the placebo effect can stimulate creativity too.”
October 27, 2017
As reported in Scientific American, a discovery at Weizmann is helping researchers fight aging.
October 25, 2017
Kite founder Arie Belldegrun studied at the Weizmann Institute, where Prof. Zelig Eshhar created the CAR T-cell therapy “that is at the heart of the medication,” says The Times of Israel.
October 23, 2017
