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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.
Is your sense of smell suddenly not working very well? Not to panic you, but sudden olfactory loss has emerged as a significant symptom in about 60 percent of COVID-19 patients.
April 05, 2020
Dr. Aurelie Lachish-Zalait, Director of the Professional Development Unit at the Davidson Institute – Weizmann’s education arm – writes in Haaretz about the importance of teachers and describes programs to keep them current in science and math.
April 02, 2020
Teams of epidemiologists and computer scientists on three continents have started mass population surveys to try to get ahead of the coronavirus and ensure that scarce diagnostic tests, and even scarcer ventilators, are sent where they can do the most good.
April 01, 2020
Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have developed a new model for containing the spread of Covid-19 while also maintaining economic activity. The key, they say, is a two-day workweek.
April 01, 2020
Israeli and British scientist are pioneering a revolutionary method of scientific research that could see a candidate for an anti-coronavirus drug emerge “within weeks.”
March 27, 2020
Weizmann’s Profs. Eran Segal and Benny Geiger led a multi-institute team that hopes “to use artificial intelligence to map clusters of the new coronavirus in order to aid government efforts to curb the spread of the disease,” reports Haaretz.
March 17, 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
In a study published by scientists from Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Current Biology, participants were exposed to the scent of roses while they were asked to remember the location of words presented on either the left or right sides of a computer screen.
March 09, 2020
Israeli scientists found that short-term acute inflammation in the mother's body during pregnancy can cause autism to the embryo, said Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in central Israel on Monday.
March 09, 2020
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