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
Future games to decide who hoists the World Cup of soccer may one day play out not on your smartphone or television, but on any flat surface in your home. A team of researchers from the University of Washington have created a machine-learning algorithm that can convert 2D YouTube clips into 3D reconstructions. Experienced through an augmented reality headset like the Microsoft HoloLens or the HTC Vive Pro, the system places a virtual representation of the match on any real-world flat surface. Those viewing the simulation can then walk around or move in close to see key pieces of the action.
June 12, 2018
Archaeologists’ evidence of Israelite settlement in the Land of Canaan and the foundation of a magnificent biblical Kingdom of David is being called into question. According to a new Cornell University study of radiocarbon testing in the southern Levant, what little organic material researchers have unearthed that was believed by scientists to have originated at the dawn of the Israelite settlement, may not have been dated properly. Blame it on the weather: The recently published paper, which takes into account Israel’s notably long summers, casts doubt on methods of dating ancient organic materials in Israel, southern Jordan and Egypt.
June 07, 2018
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