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Scientist to the Stars

In the three years since he joined the Weizmann Institute, there have been four press releases on Dr. Avishay Gal-Yam’s work as well a number of stories in our magazines. This may be somewhat unusual,...

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Dark Matter: A Ruling Theory with no Clothes?

Dark matter – that invisible stuff that is supposed to make up some 20% of the Universe – was thought up to explain a puzzling observation. The amount of mass we can see through our telescopes is not...

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A Dual-Purpose Observatory

The service tower attached to the iconic floating egg atop the Institute’s Koffler accelerator (the “spaceship” in the photo, left) has recently been graced with a charming, shiny silver skullcap – an...

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An Israeli at IceCube

Not many Israelis make it all the way to the South Pole. (In fact, very few people go there, at all. Not only is it really, really cold, it is extremely difficult and expensive to transport people,...

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Chemistry of the Quantum Kind

Today’s post is about some cool chemistry – very cool. About 0.01°Kelvin, as a matter of fact (that is, one hundredth of a degree above absolute zero). Physics experiments conducted at such...

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Outer Planets’ Stormy Weather: All on the Surface

Have you complained about the weather recently? On the gas giants at the edges of our solar system, Uranus and Neptune, hurricane-like storm systems as big around as Earth blow 1000 km/h winds for...

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Physical Benefits

Of the four new articles online on our website, three happen, purely by accident, to be on physics research. The three are very different, and yet each is an illustration of the ways that basic physics...

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Flow, Beauty and Mystery (and two new haikus)

Today’s new articles involve flow: the flow of positrons through the Universe and the flow of particles around the tiny cilia of corals. They involve beauty and mystery, as well. The particle flow,...

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The Women Who Made the Science Possible

Here are some more unsung heroes of research: scanners (the human kind). In the 1950s, Donald Glaser invented the bubble chamber – a way to track infinitesimally small quantum particles as they winked...

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The Poetry of Science IV

Manot Cave cranium With a skull and Keats, there was little choice but to write about the new online items in rhyme. So with apologies to Shakespeare, Keats and the scientists, as well as the people at...

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