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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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Sep 14, 2017...
Weizmann Institute mentor David Bassan, with his back to the camera, split T-cells in the laboratory with student lab partners Tzippora Chwat, center, and Yee Kwan Lee.
Dissecting worms to understand how they regenerate was Tzippora Chwat’s first science project in middle school. The Cedarhurst resident found the flatworms she had to work with disgusting.
“When we got the planaria” — a variety of flatworm — “it was grossing me out,” Chwat said. “My mom said, ‘Calm down.’ She always knows how to help me.” Lara Chwat, a tax attorney, also reviews her daughter’s science papers. Thanks in part to that parental support, Chwat, 19, is making the most of her interest in science. She is a graduate of Yeshiva University High School for Girls, and was one of 19 American students chosen to take part in research as part of the Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute at the prestigious Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
Apr 18, 2019...
New studies, from the Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of California, Irvine, found mice that exercised in the evening were 50% more efficient than in the morning (file image)
Taking an evening jog may be better for you than going on a morning run, two new studies find.
In research conducted on mice, scientists said that exercise performance was about 50 percent better during the evening hours.
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Aug 10, 2016...
Although Chaim Weizmann is well-known as the first president of Israel, his life as a scientist may be even more significant to the country's founding.
During World War I, Dr. Weizmann, a chemist then living in Britain – where his wife, Vera, served as a doctor – invented a method of industrial fermentation which produced large quantities of acetone. Crucial to the British war effort, his invention has been credited with helping the Allies win. During this time he also became friends with Lord Arthur Balfour, helping persuade him to write his famous Declaration. Today, however, the renowned scientific institution that bearshis name may be Dr. Weizmann’s greatest legacy.
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Jun 15, 2017...
For humans, seeing really is believing. That’s probably because sight is the most sophisticated of all the senses. So sophisticated, in fact, that 40 per cent of our brain is devoted to processing visual data.
If scientists could find a way to create artificial seeing systems with human-like capabilities, it would represent a major technological breakthrough. Computers would be able to replace human eyes, both in the performance of labour-intensive tasks and in more complex processes such as identifying individual cancer cells among normal tissue. Such systems could even help visually-impaired people to “see.”
Aug 13, 2015...
The Chinese flag. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Nineteen teenagers who won a prestigious science competition in China are scheduled to visit Israel next week as their prize. The winning group was given its choice of travel destinations and opted to attend a special 10-day workshop hosted by Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science.
The Chinese teenagers will be accompanied by teachers, journalists, and Beijing government officials. They will attend the Smart-Up Science Youth Camp, a collaboration between the Weizmann Institute’s Davidson Institute of Science Education and Shirat Enterprises, which promotes joint high-tech ventures between Israeli and Chinese companies. A similar science summer camp was held in 2014.
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Feb 07, 2011... In 1896, Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius theorized that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning coal would create a “greenhouse effect” and raise the planet’s average temperature. Most scientists scoffed. How could the puny actions of humans ever seriously alter the natural climate cycles? It wasn’t until 1958 that measurements began to show levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rising and temperatures shifting.
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Sep 10, 2012...
Memories come and go, but I can promise that I will remember this past month forever. This July, I was one of 80 students from around the world who were part of the 44th Bessie Lawrence International Summer Science Institute at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
I had found out about the program through two of last year’s participants, who I had met at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair several months earlier. It seemed just too good to be true; the International Summer Science Institute combined a serious research opportunity with travel in Israel, the topic of a book I was engrossed in at the time. After anxious months of waiting, I remember the moment I received my acceptance — it was the soft ‘ping’ signaling an email that triggered a cascade of shrieks and euphoric phone calls. I was going to Weizmann.
Oct 07, 2015... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—October 7, 2015—Most female mammals give birth and care for their offspring, while the males often breed with multiple partners and play little role in parenting once the mating is over. Yet researchers have had a hard time pinpointing where, exactly, in the brain these differences between the sexes are located and how they translate into behavior. The extent of “hardwired parental behavior” is hotly disputed.
Mar 11, 2016...
Kathy Bates for World Lymphedema Day
“There is no cure for lymphedema,” states the Mayo Clinic. That’s one reason people all over the world are coming together to raise awareness of this condition – including Oscar-winning actor Kathy Bates, who developed it after breast cancer surgery.
Lymphedema is swelling, typically in the arms and legs, and affects as many as 10 million Americans, many of them cancer survivors like Ms. Bates. In fact, according to the Mayo Clinic, the condition is “most commonly caused by the removal of or damage to your lymph nodes as a part of cancer treatment.”
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May 15, 2014... TEDx Weizmann Institute, a conference on excellence in science and science education, will be held on May 20 at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The Institute has been working for the past 50 years to advance science education in Israel. The conference will be led by the Davidson Institute of Science Education, the educational arm of the Weizmann Institute, together with scientists and staff of the Weizmann Institute and with the support of the Trump Foundation, which promotes the advancement of science and math education.
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