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Why are our teeth white? Why do we have so many facial expressions? Why do we kiss? Why can't we see to the edge of the solar system? Why can't we grow new body parts? These are just a selection of questions that can be found in the Weizmann Institute of Science's new publication: “100 Questions Why: Children ask, and scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science answer”.
 
English version now available for purchase from the Levinson Visitors Center's souvenir shop at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

 

Forefront of Science

 

Reporting on multiple molecules at once could create a "fingerprint" for unique conditions inside living cells
Chemistry
Made of a single molecule, the tiny artificial sensor might be able to “smell out” disease within living cells

 

(l-r) Prof. Eran Segal and Ilya Slutskin are uncovering the basis of RNA binding
Life Sciences
New research delves into the process by which small sequences of RNA – microRNAs – regulate the long ones 
Shown are mouse embryonic fibroblast cells in which a green marker labels the cytoskeleton and enables the observation of nanotubes (seen as fine hair-like projections extending between cells). The RNA is labeled with a magenta marker and each dot indicates an RNA molecule. In the two enlargements (right), some RNA molecules can be observed to localize within nanotubes
Life Sciences
Researchers reveal how functional genetic instructions are passed from cell to cell
 

 

Large amounts of the mTOR protein (magenta) appear in the sciatic nerve after injury (three images on the right), but are not present in the uninjured nerve (far left)
Life Sciences
Hidden from view, a central repair protein is made to order

 

Life Sciences
An intercontinental project has high school students doing real science 
Students from Hakfar Hayrok School IMO Levi Eshkol prepared for the robot experiments with lab work in their school

 

From Around the Web

 

Phys.Org
In an international collaboration between the Weizmann Institute, the Israel Space Agency, Caltech, and NASA, the ULTRASAT mission will launch a small satellite carrying a telescope with an unprecedentedly large field of view.
Studying supernovae, finding the origins of life

 

Gulf News - Health
Human beings aren’t designed to eat processed foods
 
 
The germs that love diet soda

 

Science on Tap 2018

 

The Weizmann Institute of Science presents: Science on Tap 2018
 
When: Wednesday, May 23, at 8:30 pm.
 
Dozens of top scientists and outstanding research students from the Weizmann Institute of Science will be in 51 bars in Tel Aviv to talk with the patrons. Their subjects will be open scientific questions that are being addressed on the cutting edge of world science.
 
Why are we so different from one another? Why in a democracy (a government of the people) are the people not really in control? Why does evolution sometimes need “a little help from its friends?” Why did I decided to “dance my doctorate?” Why do we need friends? Why won’t we be settling Mars anytime soon? Why does a zebra wear pajamas and how does this tie into brain research? Why do we humans still have noses, and how does this affect our relationship with the world? Why does G-d play dice with the world? Why is a crow like a writing table?
 
Science and the city: The Weizmann Institute of Science has a mission to share scientific knowledge and the excitement and adventure we experience when we expand the boundaries of human understanding. This is the ninth time that Weizmann Institute scientists have ventured into the Tel Aviv scene, and the 13th such event in the country. The first of its kind in Israel, the “On Tap” formula has since been copied by numerous organizations in Israel and around the world.
 
Science on Tap is organized in conjunction with Time Out Tel Aviv, the HEMDA school in Tel Aviv and Migdal.
 
*All conversations will be conducted in Hebrew 
Click on the link for more information (in Hebrew), email [email protected], or 
call 972-8-934-3856.

 

Science for All - Davidson Institute of Science Education

 

We like to take pride in the title "Startup Nation" – and rightfully so. It all began at the Weizmann Institute of Science, with the WEIZAC computer, which was built of vacuum tubes and capacitors 
 
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Most componenets were imported from abroad, but some were manufactured in a local factory for bicycle parts. Assembly of the computer | Source: Wikipedia, itzikowitz.20m.com

 

 

 

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