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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 future of humanity.
Dec 10, 2019... A “river” of electrons flowing in a graphene channel. The viscosity generated by the repulsion between electrons (red balls) causes them to flow with a paraboli ... Read more
Jan 13, 2016...
Prof. Yoseph Imry, one of this year's Wolf Prize winners (GPO)
Who will win this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine, the sciences, or the arts? No one will kno ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/science-tips-september-2015/
Sep 01, 2015...
Tiny sea sapphires’ iridescence, created by a regular array of thin, transparent crystal plates, is also the secret of their “disappearance”
Tiny ocean cre ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/the-president-s-report-2004/
Sep 01, 2005...
Dear Members of the Weizmann Institute Family,
When friends of the Weizmann Institute—and of Israel—ask me for some good news from our region, I have no di ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/crystal-clear/
Jun 01, 2008... In November 1895, German physics professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen was in his laboratory studying light phenomena generated by discharging an electrical current ... Read more
Mar 11, 2019...
Illustration by Serge Bloch
Nobody paid much attention to Jean Vance 30 years ago, when she discovered something fundamental about the building blocks insi ... Read more
Jan 22, 2020... Israeli researchers discovered the unique structure and mechanism of shrimp’s eyes, which allow it to see in the dark seabed, said the Weizmann Institute of Sci ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/lego-proteins-revealed/
Aug 20, 2017... Yeast cells producing a bacterial symmetric protein complex with eight units. When it is not mutated (left), the complex diffuses freely inside the cell, but a ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/science-tips-november-2013/
Nov 25, 2013... Chromosomes — the 46 tightly wrapped packages of genetic material in our cells — are iconically depicted as X-shaped formations. However, those neat X’s only ap ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/thin-films-on-a-scale/
Jun 01, 2008... Time equals money. But so does weight—when it comes to the films used in computers and optical telecommunications. Shaving off pounds from these devices could m ... Read more
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