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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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Nov 21, 2019...
(l-r) Ilanit Shapir and Prof. Shahal Ilani answered an 80-year-old question
JERUSALEM, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) — Israeli scientists have shown that electrons can ... Read more
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Jun 02, 2008... Scientists in the Weizmann Institute’s Faculty of Chemistry, together with colleagues in Germany, have made a startling prediction: Simply “taking the temperatu ... Read more
Mar 09, 2020... Electrons spin. It's a fundamental part of their existence. Some spin “up” while others spin “down.” Scientists have known this for about a century, thanks to ... Read more
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Mar 31, 2011... When we suddenly get the answer to a riddle or understand the solution to a problem, we can practically feel the light bulb click on in our head. But what happe ... Read more
Oct 11, 2012... REHOVOT, ISRAEL—October 11, 2012—The experimental system: two supersonic valves followed by two skimmers. The blue beam passes through a curved magnetic quadrup ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/ultra-cooling-gives-slow-mo-view-of-quantum-physics/
May 17, 2016...
Researchers are cooling atoms at a laboratory in Garching, Germany, to better understand how they behave. Image courtesy of Immanuel Bloch
By cooling atoms ... Read more
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Jun 30, 2016...
A bowtie-shaped nanoparticle made of silver with a trapped semiconductor quantum dot (indicated by the red arrow)
Bowtie-shaped nanoparticles made of silve ... Read more
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Sep 04, 2018... Prof. Barak Dayan and his quantum optics lab group. From l-r: Gabi Guendelman, Dor Korn, Niv Drucker, Tal Ohana, Prof. Dayan, Moran Netser, Ziva Aqua, Ori Mor, ... Read more
Mar 02, 2020... The concept of time crystals comes from the realm of counterintuitive mind-melding physics ideas that may actually turn out to have real-world applications. Now ... Read more
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Jun 30, 2018...
Yusuf Ahmad / Reuters
Faster, more powerful computing has the potential to revolutionize fields from drug delivery to freight transportation. But some are ... Read more
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