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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 02, 2014...
An AORA Tulip System (Photo credit: Courtesy)
Solar energy is an ideal solution for the power needs of the developing world – except for one problem: It st ... Read more
Mar 31, 2015...
Prof. Nir Orion
Teaching outdoors taps into children's natural learning instincts. But it demands systemic change, says Nir Orion.
During the last dec ... Read more
Jan 26, 2017...
A malaria vaccine based on stabilized proteins could circumvent today’s problems with creating an inexpensive, stable vaccine
Despite decades of malaria re ... Read more
Nov 05, 2013...
Nancy and Stephen Grand
NEW YORK—November 5, 2013—The American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science announced today that Nancy and Stephen Grand ... Read more
Jan 17, 2011...
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A new study in Israel finds that a woman’s tears have a physical and psychological effect on men. The ... Read more
May 21, 2018...
A cattle farm in Mato Grosso, Brazil. 60% of all mammals on Earth are livestock. Photograph: Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace
Humankind is revealed as simultaneous ... Read more
Jan 28, 2014...
An arrow points to the Qesem Cave hearth, where hominins may have tended to fires as early as 300,000 years ago. WEIZMANN INSTITUTE
A newly discovered hear ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/using-science-to-feed-the-world/
Mar 19, 2019... We humans are overrunning our planet and its limited resources, with no end in sight: the UN says that “roughly 83 million people” are born each year, adding an ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/how-a-brockton-man-helped-create-israel/
Feb 03, 2013...
Jewish refugees pack the ship Exodus in 1947 in a futile effort to reach British-controlled Palestine.
When most people think of the refugee ship Exodus, t ... Read more
Oct 22, 2015... The human brain is “limitless” – and yet, sometimes things go wrong. In this video, Prof. Noam Sobel, Dr. Assaf Tal, Prof. Michal Schwartz, Prof. Alon Chen, Dr. ... Read more
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