The Weizmann Institute’s first virtual Annual Impact Report
Weizmann Australia is pleased to share the Weizmann Institute of Science’s first virtual Annual Impact Report. The report, which encompasses an overview of that which took place in 2022, features...
Weizmann Joins Giant Magellan Telescope, a Top Priority for Science Worldwide
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...
Mouse Embryos Grown Outside the Uterus
A new method is set to reveal the hidden first stages of embryonic development – from a tiny ball of cells to organ growth – this unique research is from...
The Mass of Human-Made Materials Now Equals the Planet’s Biomass
A new study at the Weizmann Institute of Science shows that we are doubling the mass of the human-made ‘anthropogenic’ part of the world every twenty years and the curve...
Bacteria Could Provide us with the Next Antivirals
By tracking the evolution of what may be our oldest means of fighting off viral infection, a group at the Weizmann Institute of Science has uncovered a gold mine of...
Virtually Visit the Weizmann Institute of Science
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...
Coronavirus Video Series
The Weizmann Institute of Medical Research and Weizmann Australia have produced online presntation and information videos, plus others about Weizmann what science they are doing with regard to Coronovirus and...
Measuring Animal Personality – it’s a First!
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...
New means to develop oral vaccines come from the gut
Only a few vaccines – for example for polio and rotavirus – can be given orally, most are by injection. Weizmann Institute of Science researchers suggest this could be because...
Dancing all the way to her Doctorate
Scientists are not generally required to display prowess in modern dance, but Dr Roni Zohar of the Weizmann Institute of Science’s Science Teaching Department recently showed her moves in an...
Saturn’s Atmosphere Proves Deep, Its Rings Young
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...
‘Brain on a Chip’ Reveals How the Brain Folds
Being born with a ‘tabula rasa’ – a clean slate – for the brain is something of a curse. Our brains are already wrinkled like walnuts by the time we...
Mapping the Social Landscape
New Weizmann research in bats and published in Science has identified ‘social place cells’ in the brain that respond to the locations of others in the spatial environment, revealing a sub-population...
Cells that Rejuvenate the Brain
A newly discovered immune cell type by Weizmann scientists may lead to a future treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease manifested by various neuronal pathological processes...