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| July 18, 2012
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Israeli Scientists use ‘natural light’ to see around corners

Weizmann Institute scientists have develop a unique imaging technique that “turn walls into mirrors” using only natural light instead of lasers.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

 

 

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have developed a unique imaging technique to “turn walls into mirrors” using natural light instead of lasers and to “see around corners.”

The work, performed by Prof. Yaron Silberberg and colleagues at the Rehovot institute, was published on Monday night in the prestigious journal Nature Photonics.

ORI KATZ, Eran Small, Prof. Yaron Silberberg - Photo: Courtesy Prof. Yaron Silberberg

ORI KATZ, Eran Small, Prof. Yaron Silberberg
Photo: Courtesy Prof. Yaron Silberberg

Photonics researchers in recent years have tried to correct the “scattering” of light that causes objects to be opaque or non-reflecting. Continue Reading »

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| July 5, 2012
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Israelis rejoice over discovery of ‘God particle’

Scientists revel with colleagues around world over discovery in Geneva of new sub-atomic particle.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

 

Theoretical and experimental physicists see the groundbreaking discovery of a new subatomic particle – announced Wednesday in Geneva – as even more of a technological and scientific achievement than America’s first landing on the moon. But unlike the astronauts’ romp over the dusty lunar rocks in 1969, the new breakthrough is so intangible that it leaves the general public clueless.

Scientists explain search for Higgs boson particle

Scientists explain search for Higgs boson particle – Photo: REUTERS

Scientists at Geneva’s European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) – where scores of Israelis have worked for decades to bring the discovery nearer – confirmed that they had discovered a particle fitting the description of the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle” seen as key to understanding how the universe is built. Continue Reading »

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| May 16, 2012
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The Israeli pharmacologist who kick-started marijuana research

‘Working in a small country certainly has its positive aspects,’ Raphael Mechoulam says. ‘It couldn’t have happened in the United States.’

If some 7,000 Israelis can fill a prescription for marijuana to ease pain and enhance appetite, it’s only because half a century ago, Hebrew University Prof. Raphael Mechoulam isolated and synthesized THC, the main psychoactive compound in the cannabis plant.

Speaking at his office in the Department for Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products at the Hadassah-Hebrew University medical school, theoctogenarian pharmacologist explains that scientists as far back as the 1800s realized the beneficial effects of pot but legal problems stifled serious study. Continue Reading »

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