A new video series from the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Levinson Visitor’s Center is being produced where Weizmann Institute scientists and employees speak of their favorite spots and hidden gems on campus.
May 30, 2020
Jun 1, 2025 | Improving Health and Medicine
New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals that the nervous system can sense fat tissue and that blocking this ability protects mice from metabolic disorders. Popular belief holds that our senses gather information only about the external world, but...
May 28, 2025 | Weizmann in Australia
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have revealed the cellular network behind oral tolerance, the immune mechanism that enables us to eat food safely. If we have an allergy to peanuts, strawberries or dairy, we are quick to blame our immune systems. But...
May 22, 2025 | Advancing Technology
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have achieved an MRI resolution of one billionth of a metre, paving the way for the most detailed images of individual molecules ever produced. This new development will play a major role in the materials and pharmaceutical...
May 16, 2025 | Advancing Technology, Brain and Neural Science, Improving Health and Medicine
New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals how mouse whiskers can ‘hear’ the world. Nestled in dark burrows, with a limited sense of vision, mice brush their whiskers against their environment to navigate and to detect objects around them. This...
May 14, 2025 | Exploring the Physical World, Frontiers of the Universe, Videos
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have uncovered physical laws explaining why cracks in materials break their symmetry while spreading. These findings lay the groundwork for the design of more resilient materials which could have significant implications for...
May 8, 2025 | Improving Health and Medicine
Blocking Mitch – an energy-control protein – prevents fat accumulation in human cells Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have discovered.
Apr 22, 2025 | Fighting Cancer, Improving Health and Medicine
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have revealed how breast cancer cells enter a state of dormancy, remaining undetected for years, and why they suddenly wake up and metastasize. Breast cancer is becoming increasingly treatable, but in some cases the...
Apr 22, 2025 | Advancing Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Weizmann Institute researchers have revealed that the melody of spoken English functions as a distinct language, with a vocabulary and rules of syntax. The findings lay the foundation for an AI that will understand language beyond just words. The AI revolution, which...
Apr 11, 2025 | Fighting Cancer, Improving Health and Medicine
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have identified a gene that reprograms macrophages into cancer-promoting cells — and show how to switch it off. To grow, cancer tumours must hijack the immune system for their needs. One of the main tricks that most...
Apr 2, 2025 | Advancing Technology, Improving Health and Medicine
AI-based technology developed in Dr Liat Keren's lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science has shown it enables an unprecedented view of processes in body tissues. Artificial intelligence systems are working magic in many areas of the life sciences – they help decipher...