Prof. Milo speaks at London’s how to: Academy about plants’ ability to metabolize CO2 and how it can help us.
January 09, 2018
Dr. Shimanovich speaks at London’s how to: Academy about her work with silk fibers and how they affect the brain in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
January 09, 2018
There seems to be no limit to the number of times children can ask “Why?” as they wonder about the fascinating world around them. Adults who retain this curiosity may be young at heart, but they don’t always have answers when asked to explain these mysteries.
January 07, 2018
Acropora coral less than 2 meters under sea-level at One Tree Reef, One Tree Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef. (Photo: University of Sydney)
A recent report said that hurricanes devastated coral reefs in the Caribbean and scientists studied their recovery ability from natural disaster. As scientists understand the importance of coral reefs to an ocean ecosystem, conservation efforts have been gathering steam. According to a UNESCO study in June 2017, World Heritage coral reefs could become extinct by 2100 unless CO2 emissions are reduced.
January 01, 2018
Weizmann archaeologist Dr. Elisabetta Boaretto and her team radiocarbon-dated charcoal fromManot Cave, reports Newsweek.
December 28, 2017
This review of 2017’s health breakthroughs includes two from Weizmann: personalized nutrition and heart muscle renewal.
December 26, 2017
This was a year of particularly awe-inspiring breakthroughs at the Institute.
The powerful 15.2 Tesla ultra-high-field MRI instrument will “open new frontiers in molecular and microscopic imaging” for Prof. Michal Neeman and others.
December 19, 2017
Prof. Rotem Sorek of the Weizmann Institute of Science; Prof. Roi Holzman of the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University; and Dr. Moshe Kiflawi of Ben Gurion University have now produced a way to understand precisely which species of larvae are present in the water around reefs. Their study, which involved genetic “barcoding” of nearly all the fish species in the gulf between Eilat and Aqaba, not only showed which larvae were in the gulf, but how many of each were swimming around, at what time of year, and at what depths. This study was published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.
December 18, 2017
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