BEYOND THE HORIZON
Weizmann Institute scientists identified a potentially habitable planet just four light years away.
UNCOVERING PAST MYSTERIES
Weizmann archaeologists discovered a way to precisely identify and analyze prehistoric ashes, and found a highly pure, well-preserved source of DNA in fossilized bone.
EXPLAINING THE UNIVERSE
Weizmann astrophysicists and an international team discovered a new type of supernova that could help explain mysteries such as the prevalence of calcium in the universe and in our bodies.
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Molecules mostly get depicted as static objects – for example, as balls held together with sticks, like children’s toys. The balls in these models represent...
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Dr. Binghai Yan, who recently joined the Condensed Matter Physics Department of the Weizmann Institute of Science, says that he is a theoretical physicist who...
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Mars Trojan asteroids, which travel along the planet’s orbital path around the Sun, are not quite like those that populate the asteroid belt between Mars...
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Neptune has one of the most peculiar assortments of moons in our solar system, and Triton is largely to blame. Triton is unusually massive compared...
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So dense that their gravitational pull folds space around them and any object crossing their “event horizon” is swallowed up forever, black holes even consume...
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An international research team, including physicists from the Weizmann Institute of Science, has for the first time succeeded in observing a merger of two colliding...
