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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.
Mar 28, 2019... LOS ANGELES (March 28, 2019) —XPRIZE, the global leader in designing and operating world-changing incentive competitions, announces that it will offer a $1 mill ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/astronomers-witness-biggest-star-explosion/
Dec 01, 2009... Astronomers have watched the violent death of what was probably the most massive star ever detected. The supernova explosion, which lasted for months, is though ... Read more
Oct 31, 2017...
An artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode as a kilonova. (ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser)
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Dec 17, 2018...
(l-r) Profs. Ilan Koren, Yoav Schechner, and Klaus Schilling are inventing a new way of imaging clouds
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—December 17, 2018—Ten satellites, ea ... Read more
Mar 19, 2019...
Beresheet and its route to the moon. (photo credit: SPACEIL)
A team of scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science and SpaceIL engineers have identif ... Read more
Jul 04, 2012...
Illustration of a particle collision.
The long and complicated journey to detect the Higgs boson, which started with one small step about 25 years ago, mig ... Read more
Mar 07, 2018... Jupiter’s cloud bands — seen here in this image created by citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran, using data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft — extend m ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/looking-for-life-in-the-multiverse/
Dec 16, 2009... The typical Hollywood action hero skirts death for a living. Time and again, scores of bad guys shoot at him from multiple directions but miss by a hair. Cars e ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/science-tips-august-2014/
Aug 11, 2014... Blood stem cells have the potential to turn into any type of blood cell, whether it be the oxygen-carrying red blood cells, or the immune system’s many types of ... Read more
Mar 16, 2016...
The Juno space probe near Jupiter. Photo by www.shutterstock.com
An atomic clock – designed and constructed in Israel – will be carried beyond the Earth’s ... Read more
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