A new Weizmann Institute study has found that if certain odours are presented after tones during sleep, people will start sniffing when they hear the tones alone – even when no odour is present – both during sleep and, later, when awake. In other words, people can learn new information while they sleep, and this can unconsciously modify their waking behaviour
Win one of three selective scholarships to attend the Dr Bessie Lawrence International Summer Science Institute (ISSI) – a prestigious summer school program, bringing together 90 talented science students from all over the world to the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
The Weizmann Institute of Science is voted the Best Place to Work in academia (outside the US)
Founded in 1934 and led by Dr. Chaim Weizmann as its first President, scientists at the Weizmann Institute relentlessly seek to enhance the quality of life through the frontiers of natural and exact sciences: the life sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics and computer science
A new Weizmann Institute study has found that if certain odours are presented after tones during sleep, people will start sniffing when they hear the tones alone – even when no odour is present – both during sleep and, later, when awake. In other words, people can learn new information while they sleep, and this can unconsciously modify their waking behaviour
A declining amount of today’s computing is done on desktop computers; cloud computing, in which operations are carried out on a network of shared, remote servers, is expected to rise as the demand for computing power increases
The nose really might “know” good from bad, even before the brain does
A year ago, when chemotherapy stopped working against his leukemia, William Ludwig signed up to be the first patient treated in a bold experiment at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Ludwig, then 65, a retired corrections officer from Bridgeton, N.J., felt his life draining away and thought he had nothing to lose.
