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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 09, 2014... About 4.5 billion of years ago, in a small solar system with a rather weak sun, were two “Goldilocks” planets. That’s what scientists call planets that could ha ... Read more
Nov 17, 2014... Research suggests that warmth and water flow on ancient Mars (illustration shown) were probably episodic. These temperature changes may have also been related t ... Read more
Nov 15, 2017...
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In Greek mythology, Zeus had dominion over the creation of lightning. Thousands of years later humans have begun to assume that role. Scientis ... Read more
Feb 13, 2017... Water is made of oxygen and hydrogen, and splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen for fuel is a promising path for alternative energy. One of the main obs ... Read more
Mar 02, 2020... Farmers in arid areas of India need no convincing that the climate is changing under their feet. Their income is drying up along with their groundwater wells, f ... Read more
Nov 19, 2014... An aerial photo of a coral reef. Researchers developed a new tool to quantify the effect of ocean acidification on calcifying organisms. Credit: Boaz Lazar, Heb ... Read more
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Jan 21, 2015...
Japanese and Israeli scientists at the Advances in Brain Sciences conference
Following the visit of Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, to Israel early in ... Read more
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Jun 01, 2016... CORAL HUG: Two polyps of the reef-building coral Pocillopora damicornis imaged with fluorescence microscopy, showing the coral’s GFP, the chlorophyll of its sym ... Read more
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Oct 10, 2006... In very poor countries, the family that has to walk miles to fetch drinking water from a well or a stream may be the lucky one. In many villages, the water sour ... Read more
Jan 05, 2017... Life in a Drop of Water: Prof. Assaf Vardi and Nivi Alroy on Oceanic Plants ... Read more
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