About Us
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.
Aug 01, 2019...
What is your field of study?
I did my doctorate in high-energy physics – particle physics – and my research is on astroparticles.
Could you explain to ... Read more
Mar 14, 2012...
IRVINE, Calif. and TEL AVIV, Israel, March 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ —
News Highlights
Broadcom Foundation, a non-profit organization funded by Broadcom C ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/a-black-hole-where/
Mar 02, 2017...
A hole may be an empty space, but a black hole – the heart of darkness – is anything but.
Appearing in a variety of science fiction stories and usually sur ... Read more
Jun 27, 2017... This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the center represents the black holes event horizon, ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/earth-mass-planet-right-next-door/
Aug 26, 2016...
Artist’s impression of the newly-discovered planet, Proxima Centauri b. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—August 26,2016—An international team anno ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/star-being-shredded-produces-unusual-super-flash/
Dec 15, 2016...
In just the right conditions, the destruction of a star in a black hole’s gravitational tide should produce an unusual flash of light
When astronomers and ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/the-many-moons-theory/
Jan 09, 2017... Our planet may once have had dozens of small moonlets, which welded together over the millennia into the object that’s visible today. PHOTOGRAPH BY THE PRINT CO ... Read more
Feb 11, 2019...
Prof. Oded Aharonson and the Beresheet lunar craft
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—February 11, 2019—After an enterprise lasting nearly a decade, the Israeli unmanned Moon ... Read more
Jan 21, 2019... Under general relativity, a black hole is inescapable. Once something travels beyond the event horizon into the heart of the black hole, there’s no return. So i ... Read more
https://weizmann-usa.org/news-media/feature-stories/studying-supernovae-finding-the-origins-of-life/
Mar 28, 2018...
Prof. Avishay Gal-Yam
Many stars die with a whimper, subsiding into cool, small stars, but the most massive go out with a bang. These giants produce elemen ... Read more
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