Dr. Rei Chemke - Weizmann’s Earth and Planetary Sciences Department

Weizmann Institute: Harder Winters, Stronger Storms, New Data Reveals Climate Change Might Be More Rapid than Predicted

The Earth’s climate is changing faster than we expected. A new study led by the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals that storms in the...

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Dr Bella Ungar

Weizmann (Israel): A Noninvasive Test for Gut Inflammation

Today, people suspected of having inflammatory bowel disease are often required to undergo a colonoscopy, an invasive procedure performed under anesthesia. A new method...

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(Français) High Hopes (Israël) veut capturer le CO2 avec des ballons “en laissant faire la nature”

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photo KKL-JNF

KKL-JNF and NASA: Climate warming, a new survey to identify the tallest trees (Zavit)

A new terrestrial survey based on NASA satellite photos has identified the tallest trees in Israel. Which trees are they, where can they be...

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Professeur Victor Malka

(Français) Institut Weizmann : les lasers du Professeur Victor Malka. Interview vimeo

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An Israeli initiative may be wheat’s best shot at genetic restoration

ZAVIT. Although the Green Revolution brought wheat production to its highest capacity, it slashed wheat’s genetic diversity making it less resilient to climate change...

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Credit: Dr. Shani Levy and Hagai Nativ

Haifa U. and Weizmann: The First Atlas for the Cell of Stony (Skeleton-Building) Corals

A joint study by the University of Haifa, the Centre for Genomic Regulation (Barcelona), and the Weizmann Institute have managed to sequence – for...

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(l-r) Dr. Oksana Degtjarik, Dr. Moran Shalev-Benami and Hadar Israeli

Weizmann (Israel): Uncovering the Secret of the Hunger Switch in the Brain

Being constantly hungry, no matter how much you eat – that’s the daily struggle of people with genetic defects in the brain’s appetite controls,...

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