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A Weizmann researcher has uncovered previously undocumented impact of coastal aquifers on ocean chemistry. We have gone to the bottom of the ocean to study how its chemistry shapes our planet’s climate, even chasing lava-spewing underwater volcanoes to do it. But it...
The Weizmann Institute of Science Ranked Sixth in the World for Research Quality and is the highest placement ever given by the Leiden ranking. The Weizmann Institute of Science is placed sixth in the world in the 2025 ranking of research quality published this week...
Quantifying wildlife reveals human impact – human movement is 40 times greater than that of all land animals combined; livestock biomass up 400% and wild mammals down 70% over the past two centuries. Life on the moveWolves roaming the Mongolian steppes cover more than...
20.10.2025 A new, first-time, model from the Weizmann Institute of Science is solving the mystery of opposite winds on giant planets. Blasting around the equators of the solar system’s giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – are fierce jet streams...
Weizmann Institute scientists travelled all the way to a desert island off the coast of East Africa to record – for the very first time – the brain activity of mammals in the wild and to study how their neuronal ‘compass’ helps them navigate. Some 40 kilometres east...
Weizmann Institute scientists and Ichilov physicians have used intracranial electrodes to reveal how the brain amplifies the risk of loss – and how this may help explain anxiety disorders and post-trauma effects. People are often willing to take risks to make a...
A new Weizmann Institute of Science technology uncovers a neural mechanism that governs infant-parent bonding – and may help explain emotional differences between the sexes. The relationships we form as adults often echo those we had with our parents. According to...
The Weizmann Institute of Science has announced the inauguration of the Michael Sela Prize in Biomedical Sciences, a new international award established to honour the legacy of Professor Michael Sela (1924–2022), trailblazing immunologist and sixth president of the...
Using transparent zebrafish embryos, Weizmann scientists and Sheba physicians decipher a severe lymphatic disorder and identify a potential treatment. Despite swimming in different worlds, fish and humans are biologically much closer than one might think. Capitalising...
New evidence from the Weizmann Institute of Science points to sweeping urban planning in the city of Jerusalem existed as early as the 9th century BCE. More than 2,800 years ago, residents of Iron-age Jerusalem faced a climate change, marked by years of drought and...