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Passover Tours at Weizmann House

 

The Weizmann Institute of Science is offering a variety of tours and activities at Weizmann House for the general public during the Passover holidays.
 
The activities will be held from Sunday to Wednesday, 1-4 April 2018 at 10:00, 12:00 and 14:00 and are suitable for children aged 6 and up. Visits should be booked in advance.
 
Please call 08-9343230 or email [email protected].
 
Click on the link for more information (in Hebrew)

 

Forefront of Science

 

Jupiter's South Pole, taken during a Juno flyby, Dec 16, 2017. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / David Marriott
Space & Physics
Prof. Yohai Kaspi of the Weizmann Institute of Science: “Jupiter’s atmosphere is many times greater than anything we have seen before”

 

Food waste
Earth Sciences
A new analysis suggests hundreds of millions more could eat from the same resources if we switched our diets

 

Lighting up the reward center: Light-sensitive (optogenetic) proteins are inserted into specific brain cells. Green: dopamine-producing cells in the reward system in the ventral tegmental area. Red: cells carrying the inserted protein in a mouse brain. Yellow: Overlap between cells that are carrying the optogenetic protein and those that are dopamine-producing. Image obtained by confocal microscope in the lab of Prof. Tali Kimchi
Life Sciences
Researchers found that blocking dopamine receptors in male mouse brains dampened their preference for females
 
What Is It That Shapes our Microbiome?
Life Sciences
A study brings new hope for improving our health 

 

Fluorescent imagining shows food being passed from a forager ant to its nestmate
Space & Physics
How does an individual ant bring just the right amount of food to its nestmates?

 

(l-r) Prof. Daniel Zajfman, Dr. Mark Iron, Dr. Koushik Saha, Dr. Michael Rappaport and Dr. Oded Heber found that molecules can change shape quite slowly
Space & Physics
The findings may help explain the chemistry of biological molecules in outer space

 

Storing light on electronic orbitals
Space & Physics
A new method of trapping single photons could bring quantum memory one step closer

 

From Around the Web

 

XinhuaNet
The development of the quantum technology is just the tip of iceberg and in very early stage, and the full application of the technology is expected to arrive within several decades, an Israeli scientist said.
xinhuanet

 

Biological Physics Summer School

 

Are you in the final years of an undergraduate degree, or currently a graduate student in the fields of physics, chemistry, materials science or engineering? The Weizmann Institute of Science invites you to a 5-day program introducing the vibrant and developing field of Biological Physics. The program is tuition-free and participants who complete the course requirements may receive academic credit. Registration is open until May 15. Visit the Biological Physics Summer School website for more information and registration.

 

Art Exhibition on Campus

 

Blowing in the Wind | Eitan Vitkon
 
Feinberg Graduate School / David Lopatie Hall of Graduate Studies, Weizmann Institute of Science
 
Open weekdays: Sunday to Thursday, 09:00 – 15:00
 
Click on the link for more information

 

Science for All - Davidson Institute of Science Education

 

Family tree
An American-Israeli study, based on data from millions of users on social networks, analyzed different patterns of the ages at which people die, immigrate and get married and extracted important information 
 
 
 
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cigarettes
Researchers from Tel-Aviv University performed a meta-analysis on dozens of studies and concluded that the drugs benefit only eight percent of smokers one year post treatment 
 
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