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Taking an Innovative Nontoxic Approach to Lice
Taking an Innovative Nontoxic Approach to Lice

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Mar 12, 2017... Israeli startups unveil nontoxic technologies to vanquish head lice. Photo illustration by Lightspring/Shutterstock.com
The global head-lice epidemic is a real head-scratcher.
In the United States alone, up to 12 million children get infested with head lice each year. Across the world, the head-lice treatment market has reached $1.8 billion worth of special shampoos, conditioners and combs promising to vanquish the little wingless parasites.

TAGS: Culture, Technology

A Biotech Tale: The Israeli Scientist Who is Waging War on Cancer
A Biotech Tale: The Israeli Scientist Who is Waging War on Cancer

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/a-biotech-tale-the-israeli-scientist-who-is-waging-war-on-cancer/

Jul 13, 2013... Kertesz. 'Israel has an abundance of talent and motivation, but not of biotech investments. [Biotech] requires tens of millions of dollars and years of development, which aren’t always fruitful.' Photo by Eyal Toueg
A small American start-up managed to streamline complex DNA-sequencing techniques. Its co-founder, Mickey Kertesz, thinks the greatest breakthrough may come in the field of cancer treatment.

TAGS: Technology, Genetics, Cancer, Virus, Computers

The World's First Photonic Router
The World's First Photonic Router

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Jul 14, 2014... Dr. Barak Dayan in the quantum computing lab where the photonic router was developed.
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—July 14, 2014—Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have, for the first time, demonstrated a photonic router – a quantum device based on a single atom that enables routing of single photons by single photons. This achievement, as reported in Science magazine, is another step toward overcoming the difficulties in building quantum computers.

TAGS: Technology, Optics, Quantum theory, Computers

Camera “Sees” Through Skin, Around Corners
Camera “Sees” Through Skin, Around Corners

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/camera-sees-through-skin-around-corners/

Oct 21, 2012... Weizmann Institute researchers Ori Katz, left, and Eran Small.
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, have discovered a new physics trick. While it's not exactly Superman vision — yet — the camera developed by Ori Katz, Eran Small and Prof. Yaron Silberberg sees through objects using a simple light bulb, a standard digital camera and the basic technology found in everyday digital projectors.

TAGS: Technology, Cancer, Physics

One Atom + Two Photons = Quantum Computing Switch
One Atom + Two Photons = Quantum Computing Switch

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Jul 11, 2014... Photo: Weizmann Institute of Science
A scheme that uses a single atom to switch the direction of a single photon could pave the way toward quantum computers much more powerful than today’s machines.
The setup is described this week in the online issue of Science by researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. In simple terms, the atom can be in one of two states, either “left” or “right.” If the atom is in the left state, a photon that strikes it from the left will continue on in the same direction, as if it hadn’t hit the atom at all. A photon coming from the right, however, will be reflected back in the direction it came from, and at the same time the interaction will cause the atom to flip from left to right. Left and right can stand in for the 1s and 0s of digital logic.

TAGS: Technology, Optics, Quantum theory, Computers

CT for Clouds: A Fleet of Micro-Satellites Will See Into the Smallest Clouds
CT for Clouds: A Fleet of Micro-Satellites Will See Into the Smallest Clouds

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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, each around the size of a shoebox, are slated in a few years to enter orbit and begin filling in some gaping holes in our understanding of clouds and their role in climate. Inspired by medical CT (computed tomography), which observes and maps patients’ interiors, the designers are creating a system that will reveal detailed images of clouds’ external and internal 3D structures and properties. By probing small cloud fields that are generally missed by today’s remote-sensing technologies, the mission may resolve some major uncertainties that limit current atmospheric modelling and climate prediction.

TAGS: Space, Technology, Awards, Climate change, Earth, Mathematics

Science Tips, May 2008
Science Tips, May 2008

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May 27, 2008... Is the smell of almonds closer to that of roses or bananas? Weizmann Institute scientists have now answered that question (roses) by showing for the first time that smells can be mapped and the relative distance between various odors determined. Their findings, which appeared recently in Nature Methods, may help scientists to unravel the basic laws underlying our sense of smell, as well as potentially enabling odors to be digitized and transferred via computer in the future.

TAGS: Technology, Senses

Second CEO Conference Call Focuses on Breakthroughs in Cancer and Technology
Second CEO Conference Call Focuses on Breakthroughs in Cancer and Technology

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/second-ceo-conference-call-focuses-on-breakthroughs-in-cancer-and-technology/

Oct 10, 2017... On October 10, 2017, nearly 200 American Committee supporters from across the country joined a special conference call with CEO Marshall S. Levin. The second in a series of semi-annual calls focused on “Science at the Leading Edge: Latest Breakthroughs from the Weizmann Institute of Science.” Mr. Levin opened with the news of the Weizmann Institute’s sixth place ranking in the prestigious Nature Index of Innovation, and Weizmann Prof. Michal Schwartz’s distinction as “Lady Globes” Woman of Year for her groundbreaking Alzheimer’s research.

TAGS: Technology, Community, Cancer, Philanthropy, Leadership

The Secret Life of Clouds Revealed in New Israeli Research
The Secret Life of Clouds Revealed in New Israeli Research

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/the-secret-life-of-clouds-revealed-in-new-israeli-research/

Feb 13, 2019... Clouds have a key role in Earth’s energy balance and water cycle, but difficulties in assessing them can lead to great errors in climate prediction. Israeli and German scientists are now trying to overcome this problem, inspired by the most human form – bodily organs.
Their idea is to perform “CT scans” on clouds. Like human CTs that scan and map the interior of a patient, the researchers plan on using CloudCT, a space mission of 10 tiny satellites, to reveal detailed images of clouds’ external and internal 3D structures and properties.

TAGS: Technology, Environment, Climate change, Earth

Solar Energy Project at the Weizmann Institute Promises to Advance the Use of Hydrogen Fuel
Solar Energy Project at the Weizmann Institute Promises to Advance the Use of Hydrogen Fuel

https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/solar-energy-project-at-the-weizmann-institute-promises-to-advance-the-use-of-hydrogen-fuel/

Aug 04, 2005... Innovative solar technology that may offer a "green" solution to the production of hydrogen fuel has been successfully tested on a large scale at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. The technology also promises to facilitate the storage and transportation of hydrogen. The chemical process behind the technology was originally developed at Weizmann, and it has been scaled up in collaboration with European scientists. Results of the experiments will be reported in August at the 2005 Solar World Congress of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) in Orlando, Florida.

TAGS: Technology, Climate change, Solar power

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