Environment

Israeli company Novatrans has teamed up with a leading US egg producer to determine the sex of chicks before they hatch in order to save the males - and produce more eggs instead.

Coming home from a tough day at work? The SmarTap app will fill the bath for you. At home, you can use Amazon's Alexa to tell your shower how hot the water should be!

Wearing protective masks and snorkels, 25 swimmers from around the world swam the salty waters of Israel's Dead Sea in a bid to draw attention to its environmental deterioration.

Piqapoo, a discreet, lightweight, hands-free device to collect dog poop, launched a crowdfunding campaign to make dog owners lives a whole lot fresher.

Tracking pollutants to determine air quality across the world, Israeli startup BreezoMeter won a major bid to map air pollution in Paris.

An integral part of the work of animal researchers involves tricking their subjects. This requires a lot of creativity and imagination.

The startup's innovative technology takes care of all aspects of pest management for better crops.

Claiming their method could one day meet all of our energy needs, the scientists say the potential of algae as a source of clean energy is much more promising than previously thought.

It turns out that Popeye was right - there is energy in that spinach!

Israel is unleashing millions of killer bugs on South Africa and the African country is happily paying for it.

Despite their differences, Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Bahrain are collaborating on a $100 million accelerator, "building bridges among societies."

Following the explosion of Facebook's Israeli satellite AMOS-6, all eyes are on the future of Israel’s space industry.

Getting clean water to needy areas remains an ongoing challenge. Israeli scientists present a new energy-saving system to produce high-quality water from the air.

What can a plant whose nectar is bitter do to make pollinators return to visit its flowers? It can make them forget the taste of its nectar.

Noise is a fact of life if you live in a city, but one Israeli design student created a way to keep the noise down while keeping street performers playing.