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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.
Apr 15, 2010... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—April 15, 2010—Weizmann Institute scientists have "trained" an electronic system to be able to predict the pleasantness of novel odors, just lik ... Read more
Aug 24, 2016...
Credit: Thomas Fuchs
Compared with other bodily excretions, tears are vastly understudied. Collecting the salty drops is tedious – weepy donors are rare, m ... Read more
Jan 12, 2018...
Bats have helped to decipher how we map the movements of ourselves and others. Credit: Weizmann Inst. of Science.
The brain’s navigation system — which kee ... Read more
Jul 24, 2006...
After a hard day’s work, Rick Allen of Aptos, Calif., can’t wait to jump in his car and zone out to the music on his iPod.
“Rather than listening to the ra ... Read more
Jul 22, 2014...
How do you smell after a drink? Quite well, it turns out. A modest amount of alcohol boosts your sense of smell.
It is well known that we can improve our s ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/learning-doesn-t-stop-when-you-re-asleep/
Aug 27, 2012...
Chris Gash
People can learn new associations between scents and sounds in their sleep, according to a new study in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Re ... Read more
Sep 21, 2016... So, it might seem like proper grammar and all, but there’s one punctuation mark that is perceived as more passive-aggressive than all of the rest: the period. A ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/learning-a-new-sense/
Nov 05, 2012... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—November 5, 2012—Rats use a sense that humans don’t: “whisking.” They move their facial whiskers back and forth about eight times a second to lo ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/how-to-learn-in-your-sleep/
Aug 26, 2012... Anat Arzi of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and her colleagues used a simple form of learning called classical conditioning to teach 55 h ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/the-truth-about-pheromones/
Mar 01, 2012... After playing a sad movie scene for a group of women, researchers collected their tears and placed the unidentified fluid under men's noses. The result was a re ... Read more
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