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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
A Weizmann researcher has uncovered previously undocumented impact of coastal aquifers on ocean chemistry. We have gone to the bottom of the ocean to study how its chemistry shapes our planet’s climate, even chasing lava-spewing underwater volcanoes to do it. But it...
The Weizmann Institute of Science Ranked Sixth in the World for Research Quality and is the highest placement ever given by the Leiden ranking. The Weizmann Institute of Science is placed sixth in the world in the 2025 ranking of research quality published this week...
Quantifying wildlife reveals human impact – 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. Life on the moveWolves roaming the Mongolian steppes cover more than...
20.10.2025 A new, first-time, model from the Weizmann Institute of Science is solving the mystery of opposite winds on giant planets. Blasting around the equators of the solar system’s giant planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – are fierce jet streams...
Weizmann Institute scientists travelled all the way to a desert island off the coast of East Africa to record – for the very first time – the brain activity of mammals in the wild and to study how their neuronal ‘compass’ helps them navigate. Some 40 kilometres east...
Weizmann Institute scientists and Ichilov physicians have used intracranial electrodes to reveal how the brain amplifies the risk of loss – and how this may help explain anxiety disorders and post-trauma effects. People are often willing to take risks to make a...
A new Weizmann Institute of Science technology uncovers a neural mechanism that governs infant-parent bonding – and may help explain emotional differences between the sexes. The relationships we form as adults often echo those we had with our parents. According to...
The Weizmann Institute of Science has announced the inauguration of the Michael Sela Prize in Biomedical Sciences, a new international award established to honour the legacy of Professor Michael Sela (1924–2022), trailblazing immunologist and sixth president of the...
Using transparent zebrafish embryos, Weizmann scientists and Sheba physicians decipher a severe lymphatic disorder and identify a potential treatment. Despite swimming in different worlds, fish and humans are biologically much closer than one might think. Capitalising...
New evidence from the Weizmann Institute of Science points to sweeping urban planning in the city of Jerusalem existed as early as the 9th century BCE. More than 2,800 years ago, residents of Iron-age Jerusalem faced a climate change, marked by years of drought and...
Researchers led by Northwestern University in the United States and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, have discovered a new type of supernova that offers a rare glimpse into the depths of massive stars and exposes hidden sites where heavy chemical elements...
A new collaborative study at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre highlights the crucial role of brain–body crosstalk in health and disease. Nearly a third of cancer-related deaths are caused by cachexia, a currently...
Bacterial species collected from their natural habitat in a series of ponds in Mexico create spectacular kaleidoscopic patterns, shedding new light on collective behaviour according to new Weizmann Institute of Science research. A desert region in northern Mexico...
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and international colleagues have discovered a rare disorder caused by a missing genetic brake, recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Emma Broadbent was born nine years ago in Dallas, Texas, with...
Algorithms developed by Weizmann Institute of Science and Intel Labs researchers are enabling AI developers around the world to combine the power of different AI models ‘thinking’ as one. Just as people from different countries speak different languages, AI models...
A new AI model being developed at the Weizmann Institute of Science could predict your future health and help you change it. Before an important meeting or when a big decision needs to be made, we often mentally run through various scenarios before settling on the...
A nuclear clock quest at the Weizmann Institute of Science, spins off a new dark matter detection method. For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter – an invisible substance believed to make up about 80 per cent of the...
By Professor Alon Chen, neuroscientist and president of the Weizmann Institute of Science – published in Nature, Vol 643, p306, 10 July 2025 A little before 3 a.m. on 15 June, two Iranian missiles hit the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. We consider...
Weizmann Institute scientists have discovered hundreds of molecules that promote nerve regeneration in mice – and may even encourage growth in brain neurons. Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal...