Advancing Technology

Weizmann’s research into advanced technology is immense and acts as a timeline for technology’s evolution.

MRI Gets a Nano-Sized Upgrade

MRI Gets a Nano-Sized Upgrade

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...

Beyond Words

Beyond Words

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...

All embroidery colours

All embroidery colours

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...

Matter at the Crossroads

Matter at the Crossroads

A new Weizmann Institute method reveals how lasers can instantly alter the properties of matter. Instantly turning a material from opaque to transparent, or from a conductor to an insulator, is no longer the stuff of science fiction. For several years now, scientists...

On the Way to Building Better Batteries

On the Way to Building Better Batteries

Weizmann researchers have untangled the tiny strands of lithium that develop inside rechargeable batteries to limit their use to pose a serious fire hazard. When we plug in our cell phones to charge them, we take it for granted that they’ll soon be brimming with...

AI Flexes Its Muscles

AI Flexes Its Muscles

Life sciences have never been more digital. To learn more about life processes, biologists are collecting massive quantities of data that computer scientists analyse by means of sophisticated computational models that they develop. Over the past few years, Dr Ori...

Israel Joins the Quantum Computing Club

Israel Joins the Quantum Computing Club

Building a working quantum computer is such a daunting venture that many believe it is only for tech giants and superpowers, something on a scale beyond Israel’s reach. However, Professor Roee Ozeri of the Weizmann Institute of Science has different views. “One of the...

Rediscovering the Nucleus

Rediscovering the Nucleus

A novel imaging method reveals a surprising arrangement of DNA in the cell’s nucleus as reported by the Weizmann Institute of Science. If you open a biology textbook and run through the images depicting how DNA is organized in the cell’s nucleus, chances are you’ll...

Digital Aromas on the Horizon

Digital Aromas on the Horizon

Fragrances – promising mystery, intrigue and forbidden thrills – are blended by master perfumers, their recipes kept secret. In a new study on the sense of smell, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have managed to strip much of the mystery, even from complex...

Nanotubes’ as Superconductors and Solar Cells

Nanotubes’ as Superconductors and Solar Cells

One of the world’s smallest solar cells might be a nanotube – not the kind made of carbon, but one composed of an inorganic compound rolled around itself like a hollow cigar. This discovery – the fruit of collaboration between physicists in Japan and Germany and...