The Times of Israel reports on ULTRASAT, the new ultra-light satellite that will use the UV light range to gain novel insight into elements such as black holes. Weizmann’s Prof. Eli Waxman heads the project, and says that it will help answer “some of the big questions in astrophysics.”
August 12, 2019
As Xinhua news agency reports, Weizmann archaeologists used a new method to date water found in a reservoir in a Negev “fossil aquifer,” showing that it is orders of magnitude older than previous tests showed.
August 05, 2019
When cells make mistakes – such as misfolding proteins – diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer can result. Weizmann scientists have now shown where and how such mistakes happen. Xinhua reports.
August 02, 2019
Haaretz profiles Dr. Hagar Landsman-Peles, a particle physicist who is part of the search for dark matter – and is skilled at explaining what that means.
August 01, 2019
Oxytocin is the feel-good hormone that helps us bond with loved ones, and yet is not wholly understood. Now, China’s Xinhua news agency reports that Weizmann scientists have found how oxytocin levels are renewed.
July 30, 2019
Tech expert Hillel Fuld writes in The Jerusalem Post about BiondVax, the company developing Prof. Ruth Arnon’s universal flu vaccine.
July 25, 2019
Israeli crystallographer Ada Yonath -- whose pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome won her the Nobel Prize in 2009 -- has one advice for women struggling to make a mark in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM): Forget what society thinks and go after what you want.
July 24, 2019
The Daily Mail reports on new research by Profs. Eran Elinav and Eran Segal, whose work shows that some microbes “speed up progression of the cruel condition that killed Professor Stephen Hawking.”
July 23, 2019
“A trailblazing study” by Profs. Eran Elinav and Eran Segal “suggests that intestinal microbes may have a direct effect on the course of … ALS, the incurable, fatal neurodegenerative disease,” reports Israel21C.
July 23, 2019
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