Researchers Night

Thousands came to the Weizmann Institute yesterday evening for Researchers' Night activities. Researcher's Night is sponsored by the EU, and it takes place all over Israel and across Europe. In addition to lab tours and showings of 3-D films of molecular structures, the Clore Garden Science -- an outdoor science museum on the Weizmann campus -- swarmed with activity. Especially popular were the fire juggler, hands-on educational activities in the EcoSphere, and the telescopes set up especially for the event.

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Israel's Minister of Science and Technology gets a lesson in physics

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Atop the old Van de Graff acclerator

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Making waves at the entrance to the Clore Garden of Science

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