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Memory Particles

Jan 12, 2026 | Advancing Technology

Weizmann Institute scientists have found new evidence for a particle system that ‘remembers' its previous quantum states – a significant step toward the development of a fault-tolerant quantum computer. In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve...

An Alarming Trend Climate Models Are Missing

Jan 8, 2026 | Environmental Sustainability, Protecting our Planet

North Pacific winter storm tracks are shifting toward the North Pole faster than predicted according to new research from the Weizmann Institute of Science and Google Research. Alaska’s glaciers are melting at an accelerating pace, losing roughly 60 billion tons of...

Instead of Fighting Cancer Resistance, Put It to Work

Jan 2, 2026 | Fighting Cancer, Improving Health and Medicine

Three resistance mutations identified in the Weizmann Institute of Science laboratory of Professor Yardena Samuels may become targets for powerful new immunotherapies. One of the most challenging moments in cancer treatment comes when a therapy stops working. In many...

Resurrected Tissue

Dec 29, 2025 | Fighting Cancer, Improving Health and Medicine

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have solved a 50-year-old mystery, uncovering the molecular mechanism that enables tissue regeneration after extensive damage. The findings may pave the way for treatments that help prevent cancer from returning. Like a...

New Study Reveals Sex Hormones Reset Our Body Clocks

Dec 23, 2025 | Improving Health and Medicine

This Weizmann Institute of Science study may shed new light on disruptions to the circadian clocks during menstruation, pregnancy and menopause. Disruptions to our circadian clocks – the internal molecular timekeepers ‘ticking’ in nearly every cell of our body...

The Biochip Built for the Next Pandemic

Dec 12, 2025 | Advancing Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Improving Health and Medicine

A new tool developed by the Weizmann Institute of Science could help prepare us for the next viral threat. In 2020, as scientists around the world were racing to understand COVID-19, Professor Roy Bar-Ziv and his team at the Weizmann Institute of Science...

From the Volcanic Crater to the Lab: A Lesson in Survival

Dec 4, 2025 | Advancing Technology, Improving Health and Medicine

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have discovered how organisms thrive at temperatures above 80 degrees Celsius. “Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative,” wrote H. G. Wells. This principle – that survival requires change – was mastered...

Turning the Tumour’s Shield into a Sword

Nov 22, 2025 | Fighting Cancer, Improving Health and Medicine

New research at the Weizmann Institute of science shows a new class of immune-activating molecules can awaken anti-tumour immunity by targeting the tumour’s own defences. Immunotherapy, which harnesses our body’s own immune system to fight cancer, has revolutionised...

Domination over Nature

Nov 20, 2025 | Environmental Sustainability, Protecting our Planet

New research quantifying wildlife has revealed the human impact – that 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. Wolves roaming the Mongolian steppes...

Bacteria on the Brain

Nov 17, 2025 | Brain and Neural Science, Fighting Cancer, Improving Health and Medicine

Weizmann researchers, together with Beilinson and Rambam physicians, have revealed that diverse bacteria reside within brain tumours, potentially affecting treatment efficacy and even patients’ survival. Like a bouncer guarding the entrance to an exclusive nightclub,...

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