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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.
Jun 16, 2017...
Credit: NASA/SwRI /MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran
More than 400 years after Galileo turned his telescope toward the planet Jupiter, the clouds and mist c ... Read more
Nov 10, 2017...
Frankenstein’s moon, Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library
It came in like a wrecking ball. Neptune has one of the weirdest collections of moons in our solar ... Read more
Aug 12, 2019... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—August 12, 2019—Weighing in at just about 160 kg (around 353 lbs), a new type of scientific satellite is planned to be built in Israel over the ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/weather-on-the-outer-planets-only-goes-so-deep/
May 17, 2013... In the middle is the Great Dark Spot, accompanied by bright, white clouds that undergo rapid changes in appearance. To the south of the Great Dark Spot is the b ... Read more
Jan 05, 2017... Symphony of Particles: Dr. Shkima Bressler on What Makes Up the Universe ... Read more
Oct 16, 2017... This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode as a kilonova. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornm ... Read more
Mar 02, 2020... When a massive star reaches the end of its life, it can explode as a supernova. But there’s a unique type of supernova that’s much brighter that we’re just star ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/blowing-in-the-stellar-wind/
May 21, 2014... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—May 21, 2014—When a supernova – the explosion of a giant star – was discovered last year, astrophysicists, with the help of telescopes around th ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/xenon1t-team-sets-limits/
May 30, 2018...
Inside the XENON1T water shield
Dr. Ran Budnik and his team at the Weizmann Institute of Science joined 165 researchers from 27 research institutes around ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/science-tips-december-2011/
Dec 01, 2011... Less and less of today’s computing is done on desktop computers; cloud computing, in which operations are carried out on a network of shared, remote servers, is ... Read more
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