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  • Renée and Bob Drake

    People behind the science

    The joy of exploring, the art of giving

    Bob and Renée Drake’s devotion to science is matched only by their passion for art. But there’s no competition here. In fact, their dual passions share important common threads.

    Date: May 8, 2022

  • A processor for WeizQC designed and built in Prof. Roee Ozeri’s lab by PhD students Lee Peleg and David Schwerdt

    Briefs

    Guardians of the logic gates

    Weizmann researchers develop Israel’s first quantum computer

    Date: May 7, 2022

  • Features

    The science of secrecy

    “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

    Date: May 3, 2022

  • Young Weizmann Scholars Diversity and Excellence Program, class of 2021.

    Students

    Summertime science

    What did you do last summer? Seems like a simple enough question. But for students from underrepresented sectors of Israeli society

    Date: May 1, 2022

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  • Briefs

    Powerful predictions for material design

    Dr. Sivan Refaely-Abramson has been awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research for her innovative work on new theoretical understandings of materials. 

    Date: August 7, 2022

  • Briefs

    Adapting and unraveling life-inspired materials

    Dr. Ulyana Shimanovich of the Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science was named one of nine winners of the FEBS Excellence Award for 2021

    Date: August 7, 2022

  • Briefs

    Advancing the health of humankind

    Prof. Shalev Itzkovitz from the Department of Molecular Cell Biology has received the 2022 Rappaport Prize for Excellence in the Field of Biomedical Research. 

    Date: August 7, 2022

  • Briefs

    Reshef Tenne elected to the European Academy

    Prof. Emeritus Reshef Tenne has been elected as a member of the esteemed European  Academy of Sciences and Arts, for his outstanding research achievements and international distinction. 

    Date: August 7, 2022

  • Briefs

    Blavatnik awards recognize Weizmann trailblazers

    Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, an annual prize awarded by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

    Date: August 7, 2022

  • Briefs

    Adapting and unraveling life-inspired materials

    Dr. Ulyana Shimanovich of the Department of Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science was named one of nine winners of the FEBS Excellence Award for 2021

    Date: August 7, 2022

  • Briefs

    Charting the career course

    The Weizmann Institute is launching a new national prize to advance women in science: the Women’s Postdoctoral Award for Science Career Development, which will support exceptional Israeli women scientists working at top-tier institutions abroad in the exact and natural sciences. 

    Date: August 4, 2022

  • Briefs

    Israel Prize awarded to Oded Goldreich

    Prof. Oded Goldreich of the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics has received the Israel Prize, the country’s highest honor, for his outstanding  contributions to the fields of cryptography and complexity theory. 

    Date: August 4, 2022

  • Briefs

    Postdoc fellowship honors Dr. Angela Merkel

    In a special ceremony held at the President’s Residence in October 2021 honoring Angela Merkel, former Chancellor of  Germany, Israel’s President Isaac Herzog announced the Dr. Angela Merkel Postdoctoral Fellowship for Outstanding Women Scientists in Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

    Date: August 4, 2022

  • Briefs

    Rafael Malach named EMET Prize winner

    Prof. Emeritus Rafael (Rafi) Malach of the Department of Brain Sciences was chosen as a 2022 recipient of the EMET Prize in Life Sciences Bio- Medicine Award—often referred to as ‘Israel’s Nobel Prize’—given by the A.M.N. Foundation for the Advancement of Science, Art and Culture in Israel. 

    Date: August 4, 2022

  • Briefs

    Going out with a bang

    Some stars go out with a bang— in a supernova explosion that hurls stellar matter out into space. 

     

    Date: July 28, 2022

  • Briefs

    Spiking the particle

    Prof. Yosef Shaul was a postdoc at the University of California, San Francisco in the 1980s when he read about the recently discovered genome of the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Already widely associated with liver cancer, the virus turned out to be a tiny DNA virus which uses RNA to replicate.

    Date: July 28, 2022

  • Briefs

    Two-way cellular radio

    Evolutionary biologists believe that mitochondria, membrane- bound organelles that convert cellular energy, may have evolved from a lonely bacterium that was suddenly swallowed up by another ancient life form.

     

    Date: July 28, 2022

  • Briefs

    Serendipity leads to sirloin

    The freedom to follow one’s own curiosity  also  means the freedom to stumble upon something you never expected to find. Prof. Eldad Tzahor and postdoc Dr. Tamar Eigler were not thinking of nutrition when they peered into a microscope examining cultured muscle stem cells. But then, they saw steak.

    Date: July 27, 2022

  • From left: Staff Scientist Dr. Sara Feigelson, Prof. Gilad Haran, Prof. Ronen Alon, and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Shirsendu Ghosh

    Briefs

    Putting the brakes on immune cells

    Immune cells zip through our body’s blood vessels at dizzying speeds, braking at critical checkpoints with the precision of a plane landing on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. 

    Date: July 27, 2022

  • Briefs

    Sugar baby solution

    For many, regular injections of synthetic insulin are the only way to push back against the long-term effects of diabetes, which can include devastating damage to the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys, and nerves.

    Date: July 27, 2022

  • Briefs

    A ‘smoking gun’ for weight loss

    Smokers often hesitate to quit, as losing cigarettes usually means gaining weight.

    Date: July 24, 2022

  • Briefs

    Canary in the data mine

    For anyone who uses a computer—and that’s all of us—random numbers are important.

    Date: July 24, 2022

  • New scientists

    Dr. Mark Shusterman

    Dr. Mark Shusterman is working to prove one of the oldest and most famous unsolved problems in mathematics: the twin prime conjecture. 

    Date: November 16, 2021

  • New scientists

    Dr. David Gokhman

    Dr. David Gokhman is searching for the adaptations that set humans apart, by comparing human genes to those of two close relatives—the extinct Neanderthal and Denisovan species, and the great apes. 

     

    Date: November 16, 2021

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