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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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Jan 19, 2016... The Mars rovers. A spacecraft landing on a comet. Space tourism. Even the Star Wars reboot: Thanks to such thrilling events, interest in space may not have been ... Read more
Dec 12, 2016... This artist’s illustration depicts a sun-like star being “spaghettified” by a supermassive black hole, which has the mass of 100 million times that of Earth’s s ... Read more
Jul 26, 2010... The lakes of southern Titan are shrinking.The level of Ontario Lacus, the largest lake in the southern hemisphere of this Saturnian moon, has fallen by some 15 ... Read more
Jul 24, 2017... A mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars. This view is similar to what one would see from a spacecraft, according to NASA.The Trojan asteroids that f ... Read more
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Dec 14, 2011... Weizmann Institute of Science astrophysicists have been prominent inthe experiments that have shown "promising signs" of the existence ofthe Higgs boson – the " ... Read more
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Dec 20, 2014... Clusters of galaxies like this one, MCS J0416.1-2403 located in the constellation of Eridanus, have long been theorized to be bound by cosmological dark matter. ... Read more
May 08, 2018...
(NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko)
Walk away from Facebook, nix the porch light and stroll outside to enjoy the sky tonight. The king of the plan ... Read more
Mar 01, 2014... Smaller, lighter, faster to build, easier to launch and one-tenth the cost of today’s big space telescopes: That is the idea behind a unique collaboration betwe ... Read more
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Nov 18, 2014... Satellite image of Olympus Mons on Mars, the largest volcano in the solar system at about three times the height of Mount Everest. Around 3.5 to 4 billion years ... Read more
May 15, 2020... In the search for life beyond Earth, Israel Space Agency (ISA) is among four finalists chosen by NASA to develop concept studies in NASA's Discovery Program for ... Read more
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