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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.
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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
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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
Feb 14, 2013...
Andromeda galaxy, or M31. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
The predicted property in this study is the velocity dispersion, which is the average velocity of obje ... 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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Mar 12, 2012... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—March 12, 2012—There’s something poetic about gazing up at the night sky, seeing the familiar face of the Man in the Moon” who faithfully accomp ... Read more
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Dec 03, 2009... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—December 3, 2009—What happens when a really gargantuan star—one hundreds of times bigger than our sun—blows up? Although a theory developed year ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/the-israelis-who-went-to-jupiter/
Jul 07, 2016... Dr. Yohai Kaspi, 42, a planetary researcher at the Weizmann Institute, watched on Tuesday live the Juno spacecraft in space and was reminded of one of his happi ... Read more
Dec 14, 2015...
Prof. Oded Aharonson in the observatory at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Nov. 26, 2015. Credit: Eyal Toueg
Prof. Oded Aharonson had a comfo ... Read more
Aug 23, 2012... Gamma rays detected by NASA's Fermi space telescope show that the remnant of Tycho's supernova shines in the highest-energy form of light. This portrait of the ... Read more
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Mar 15, 2017... In the most common type of supernova, the iron core of a massive star suddenly collapses in on itself and the outer layers are thrown out into space in a specta ... Read more
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