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Forefront of Science

Image acquired by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow Angle Camera is near the North Pole. It is ~9.3 km in width. The Sun is shining from the left, less than one degree above the horizon. Credit: NASA/GSFC/ASU

Cool in the Shade: How Ice Could Exist Near the Lunar Surface

Space & Physics

Micro cold traps near the Moon’s poles could contain a ready supply of water ice

(l-r) Prof. Amos Tanay, Dr. Zohar Mukamel, Zohar Meir, Aviezer Lifshitz and Elad Chomsky

Memories of a Cancer Cell

Life Sciences

Cancer cells turn out to have memories. But these are unreliable and can end up causing trouble

(l-r) not to scale. A pot-lid and a flake. Each was produced at a different temperature

Ancient Hominins Used Fire to Make Stone Tools

Scientific Archaeology

A study of these tools suggests skilled control over heating flint to produce different forms

(l-r) Dr. Nir Naftali, Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz, Prof. Dan Oron, Dr. Iftach Nevo and Dr. Yishay Feldman

Freezing with Lasers Creates Aligned Ice Crystals

Chemistry

Supercooled water zapped in just the right way enabled perfect control over the process

Surprising Players in Acute Liver Failure Point to Potential Treatment

Life Sciences

Gut microbes and host cells jointly contribute to the progression of this mostly incurable disease

(l-r) Prof. Rony Paz, Dr. Kristoffer Aberg and Ido Toren

Wrong on Time

Life Sciences

“Prediction errors” in learning occurring near the “time circuits” in our brain alter our sense of time

Creativity Emerges from Spontaneous Neural Activity

Life Sciences

Creative ideas are linked to resting fluctuations that begin as a kind of noise

Cardiac culture. The cardiomyocytes are tagged red; green lines are cleavage furrows between dividing cells

Drawing from the Same Deck

Life Sciences

The secrets of heart regeneration in chronic heart failure demonstrated in mice

Technology and Applications

(l-r) Profs. Tony Futerman and Jacob Klein

Yeda News

Life Sciences

Lysogene and Liposphere are the names of two companies to watch in the next decade

People and Events

Real Issues, Virtual Debate

Students from around the world argued two sides of COVID-19 policy

From Around the Web

Research identifies new information to accelerate structure-based drug design against COVID-19

Medical Xpress

In bid to whip Alzheimer’s, Israeli scientists use immune system to repair brain

The Times of Israel

ImmunoBrain Checkpoint’s antibody that boosts immune cells’ communication with brain seen effective in lab animals; clinical trials in humans to start next year

A Window to the Campus

Women Scientists of Weizmann

In the fifth episode of "A window to the Campus" Weizmann Institute women scientists speak about the cutting edge research they are conducting in their labs.

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