Although over the centuries we have learned much about our physical world, from the earth below to the stars above, there are still many mysteries to uncover.
The journey to Jupiter has begun. The European Space Agency’s unmanned spacecraft JUICE (short for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) recently launched (13 April) from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. JUICE’s voyage, the ESA’s most ambitious mission to date, will be...
NASA will launch Israel’s first space telescope – the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite, or ULTRASAT – into high-Earth orbit in early 2026, as part of a newly signed partnership between United States’ NASA and Israel's Ministry of Innovation, Science and...
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have produced the first global estimate of the combined weight of all land insects and related arthropods. Arthropods crawl and buzz around us in the wild and on farmlands, on the street and at home, under our floors...
Why do Earth’s hemispheres look equally bright when viewed from space? Weizmann Institute scientists offer a solution to this 50-year-old mystery. When looking at the Earth from space, its hemispheres – northern and southern – appear equally bright. This is...
NASA’s first-ever interception of an asteroid happened in full view of researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, who documented the collision’s debris last Tuesday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKVhQmZYBgE&feature=emb_imp_woyt DART impact as...
They say that where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and Weizmann Institute of Science researchers are working hard to investigate that claim, or at least elucidate what constitutes ‘smoke’. In an article published this week in PNAS, the scientists reveal an advanced,...
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is up there with the rings of Saturn and the blue marble of Earth for solar system icon status. In a study published this week in Science, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers and their collaborators on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter,...
The GMTO Corporation has welcomed the Weizmann Institute of Science into its international consortium of distinguished universities and research institutions building the Giant Magellan Telescope. The new partnership reinforces that completing the largest and most...
A new research pilot by Weizmann Institute scientists uses artificial intelligence to unravel the mysteries of colliding particles “Our work is similar to inspecting the remains of a plane crash where we’re trying to reconstruct what colour pants the passenger from...
Weizmann Institute scientists have revealed how gigantic cyclones remain stable at both of Jupiter’s poles. Until recently, before NASA’s Juno space probe entered its orbit around the planet Jupiter, no one knew that powerful cyclones, approximately the size of...
A study recently published in PNAS looks at an important chapter in our anthropological evolution and suggests that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were far from strangers. The Boker Tachtit archaeological excavation site in Israel’s central Negev desert, is a place...
Around 2.5 billion years ago, our planet experienced what was possibly the greatest change in its history: According to the geological record, molecular oxygen suddenly went from non-existent to becoming freely available everywhere. Evidence for the ‘great oxygenation...
New collaborative research from the United States and the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that micro cold traps near the Moon’s poles could contain a ready supply of water ice. Ice has already been detected in difficult-to-reach spots at the bottoms of large, deep...
Our ancestors not only knew how to use fire, they also developed sophisticated technologies for making tools. Weizmann Institute of Science research, recently published in Nature Human Behaviour, suggest that early humans may have had a good understanding of the...
In 2026 a super accurate clock planned by the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Israeli Space Agency (ISA) and an Israeli company, Accubeat – named The Trident Team – could be on its way to Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, if successful in the Discovery Program where...
In hot summers everyone has a hard time cooling down. This is especially true for certain simple molecules which scientists want to cool down close to absolute zero and the lowest temperature possible, approximately -273oC. This goal is sought because near this...
A new study on mice, recently published in Nature Neuroscience, shows animal research may need to take into account the connection between genes, behaviour and personality. We may refer to someone’s personality as ‘mousey’ but in truth mice have a range of...
Isotopes in iron oxides laid down two billion years ago hold clues to the conditions in which they were created - and they were not boiling - according to Weizmann Institute of Science researchers. Geoscientists studying the conditions prevailing in Earth’s earliest...
The Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) and the Israel Space Agency (ISA) of the Ministry of Science and Technology are heading an international project to further study the universe. Weighing in at just about 160 kg, a new type of a scientific satellite is planned to...
After an enterprise lasting nearly a decade, the Israeli unmanned moon mission 'Beresheet' (Genesis) will soon take off from Earth, bound for the Moon’s rocky surface, principally to measure its magnetic field. Professor Oded Aharonson, of the Weizmann Institute of...
As Cassini - one of the more successful planetary missions, orbiting and returning information on Saturn and its moons - reached its final act, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers took part in the last phase of the 20-year mission. Grand Finale was the official...
An Israeli-German mission that includes the Weizmann Institute of Science, which plans to launch a formation of ten tiny satellites that use medically-inspired CT (computed tomography) algorithms to answer climate questions, has won a €14 million European Research...
A computational method for designing dramatically more efficient versions of enzymes, being developed at the Weizmann Institute of Research, may lead to new avenues of drug design and new treatments against nerve agents. Millions of times a second, in our bodies and...
A new tool developed by Weizmann Institute of Science researchers for mapping cells reveals how complex regulatory systems evolved to help diverse cell types cooperate. The first multi-celled organisms began appearing on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago. That...