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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.
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 22, 2020—The Weizmann Institute of Science is ranked seventh in Europe – and first in Israel – for the total number of research grants received from the European Research Council (ERC) for the years 2007-2019.
June 22, 2020
Prof. Shahal Ilani and MIT colleagues discovered that magic-angle quantum phases come from a previously unknown, high-energy “parent state.” Science Magazine reports.
June 22, 2020
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—June 15, 2020—During the pandemic lockdown, as couples have been forced to spend days and weeks in one another’s company, some have found their love renewed while others are on their way to divorce court. Oxytocin, a peptide produced in the brain, is complicated in that way...
June 15, 2020
The second “Favorite Spots & Hidden Gems” video introduces us to Dr. Haim Beidenkopf, who is creating quantum-computing platforms.
June 15, 2020
As Wired reports, Weizmann and Ben Gurion University researchers showed that lightbulbs can be used to eavesdrop.
June 12, 2020
Israel21C reports on the Weizmann Institute’s proposal to NASA to send a craft to Triton. The project, Trident, is sponsored by the Institute and the Israel Space Agency. It will feature a super-accurate clock and seek life.
June 10, 2020
Just as COVID-19 is still advancing, so is the research of Weizmann Institute scientists as they develop ways to identify, predict, treat, and prevent the illness. One particularly innovative researcher is Prof. Noam Sobel.
A neurobiologist who is a world leader in olfaction research, Prof. Sobel works in the Weizmann tradition of following his curiosity as he harnesses the sense of smell to fight COVID. His previous studies have shown that our olfactory system has powers that many of us would never have imagined; he has used the sense of smell – our most ancient sense – to quantify the smell of fear; shed light on social miscues in autism and diagnose the condition; help locked-in, vegetative patients communicate; reveal subconscious reactions to the opposite sex; and much more.
Covered in Science Daily, the story of the creation of a unique material is also the story of a unique collaboration between the Weizmann Institute and the Max Planck Institute.
June 10, 2020
Prof. Eran Segal provides an update on his symptom-tracking questionnaire and how it can help predict the second wave of COVID-19. As he explains, testing is insufficient...
June 10, 2020
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