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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.
Oct 20, 2015... Steel is ubiquitous in our daily lives. We cook in stainless steel skillets, ride steel subway cars over steel rails to our offices in steel-framed building. St ... Read more
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Aug 24, 2017...
The trajectory of a crack tip, showing one cycle of oscillation. The horizontal wavy line shows the trajectory of the tip of the crack.
It is said that a w ... Read more
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May 18, 2017...
Prof. Rybtchinski’s self-assembling membrane for water purification
Separation technology is at the heart of water purification, sewage treatment, and mate ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/making-spines-from-sea-water/
Nov 30, 2016... Some sea creatures cover themselves with hard shells and spines, while vertebrates build skeletons out of the same minerals. How do these animals get the calciu ... Read more
Dec 12, 2014...
Touchdown: Rossetta mission crew celebrate
The first ever landing of a man-made probe onto a comet has been named Physics World Breakthrough of the Year fo ... Read more
Dec 11, 2014...
The science of invisibility could make micro machines work without friction. Image © TEDxBrussels/Scorpix.
From the galactic to the quantum, the science of ... Read more
Sep 19, 2019... JERUSALEM, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) – Israeli researchers have deciphered the unique “self-healing” process of solar materials halide perovskites, making the developme ... Read more
Dec 05, 2017...
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Scientists from Israel and abroad have designed microscopic silk capsules that can serve as a protective env ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/how-do-marine-mollusks-process-food-without-teeth/
Oct 19, 2015... Newswise — WASHINGTON, D.C., October 19, 2015 — Whereas human and many animals use teeth to crush or grind food as an initial part of the digestive process, som ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/just-rolling-along/
Sep 21, 1997... A smooth, friction-free future may be in the offing—for machinery, that is. Prof. Reshef Tenne and his team in the Materials and Interfaces Department have crea ... Read more
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