As The Washington Post says, Prof. Gad Asher has answered the question: it’s evening, when exercising “uses less oxygen, making workouts more efficient and improving athletic performance.”
July 21, 2019
Weizmann President Prof. Daniel Zajfman, in an interview with Science Business, explains a major cause of the Institute’s success: “You focus all your funding on individuals; the ones who can move the needle on an issue … We give our researchers full labs and full funding from day one, and total independence to work.”
July 16, 2019
Israel21C reports on a new type of patch that can protect the brain after cranial surgery. It is being brought to market by Nurami Medical, which was cofounded by Dr. Amir Bahar, who has a PhD in neurobiology from the Weizmann Institute.
July 16, 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
Manas Seal, a postdoc in Prof. Daniella Goldfarb’s lab, writes in The Hindu about leaving his native India to attend the Weizmann Institute, where his new colleagues made the change surprisingly easy. As many Weizmann scientists do, he says: “I am in the right place here.”
June 29, 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
An international team, including Weizmann astrophysicists, has shown that a red sun “only” 12 light years away has two planets that may be in the “inhabitable zone,” thus supporting life. The Jerusalem Post reports.
June 19, 2019
Nature reports on the importance of Prof. Rotem Sorek’s discovery that viruses communicate and make decisions. His work has already transformed virology.
June 18, 2019
Israel21C reports on HiGrade, a smartphone AI technology that lets people test the strength of their cannabis before smoking. Cofounded by a Weizmann alum, applications include helping medical users calibrate their doses.
June 13, 2019
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