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
Dr. Ran Budnik and his team at the Weizmann Institute of Science joined 165 researchers from 27 research institutes around the world working on the XENON1T experiment. This experiment is the most sensitive by far to search for dark matter, and the results they reported this week set a stringent limit on the possible mass of particles that could make up the elusive dark matter. Following these results, based on research that utilized a tank containing over a ton of liquid xenon and on data collected for almost a year, the scientists are planning an even larger, more-sensitive experiment – XENONnT – for 2019.
May 2018
Squeeze through or go around? Phys.org covers research from the lab of Dr. Ofer Feinerman that provides insight into how ants collaborate to bring food home to the nest.
May 10, 2018
The Washington Post’s article about Jupiter’s reaching opposition talks to Weizmann’s Prof. Yohai Kaspi, who is part of NASA missions to study the Jovian planet.
May 08, 2018
Israel21c reports on Israel’s ongoing plans to launch a lunar module, despite the expiration of the Google Lunar X prize. Weizmann’s Prof. Oded Aharonson is mission scientist.
April 02, 2018
Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam searches the skies for exploding stars that contain the elements necessary for life, and is working with NASA and others on a UV-wavelength satellite.
March 2018
CNN reports on Prof. Yohai Kaspi’s discoveries about Jupiter’s weather, including the massive atmospheric storms that are its famous stripes.
March 08, 2018
Three papers appearing in Nature on March 8 answer a question that scientists have been asking ever since Galileo first observed the famous stripes of Jupiter: Are the colorful bands just a pretty surface phenomenon, or are they a significant stratum of the planet? The Weizmann Institute of Science’s Prof. Yohai Kaspi led this research, in which measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft were analyzed to reveal that the stripes – belts of strong winds circling the planet – extend to a depth of about 3,000 km (about 1,900 miles). That is quite a bit deeper than previous estimates, and is revising scientists’ picture of Jupiter’s atmosphere as well as its inner layers.
March 07, 2018
Space.com reports on recent findings from NASA’s Juno mission. Weizmann’s Prof. Yohai Kaspi made remarkable discoveries about Jupiter’s famous stripes.
March 07, 2018
