For the first time in the world researchers at the Technion Institute of Technology and Rambam Medical Center in Haifa in Israel created new blood vessels using embryonic stem cells. The researchers are hoping to achieve effective treatment of heart disease in the future.

A TV show format created by two Israelis is being shot these days in Israel. The shot Chat Room, integration between the Reality genre and the internet world is aired in India these days and already attracting millions of Facebook followers.

Any.DO is an Israeli social to-do app that helps its users organize their tasks in better, more creative ways. It offers features such as online sharing and physical gestures and will most likely help you decrease your procrastination habits.

Jerusalem-based Snapkeys makes a smartphone app that lets you easily type without using a keyboard, with the text input easier than the usual “soft” keyboard you get with your touch cellphone.

The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the marketing of a device that detects life-threatening cerebral hemorrhages without the need for CT Scans. The device will therefore prevent unnecessary radiation emitted by the scans.

A new research lead by Prof. Eitan Yaniv, head of the nose and sinus institute at the otolaryngology department at Beilinson Hospital in Israel, suggests that the communication style of a patient, which is a personal characteristic, influences the success of surgery.

A Tel Aviv based firm called XTR3D will launch a new touch-less, motion recognition technology to be used on multiple devices early this year. The company claims its software can exist with built-in software and can be installed on any consumer electronic device.

According to an international study with Israeli input, moonlight and starlight aren't just romantic they are also healthier than harsh artificial light - especially LED (light-emitting diodes) white light, which suppresses important brain processes.

China Southern Power Grid and Better Place, the Israeli provider of global electric car networks, announced the opening of their Switchable Electric Car Experience Center in CHina's Guangzhou’s province. The center will demonstrate the technology behind Better Place's "battery swap stations" for electric cars.

Gavy Friedson is one of 1,700 responders at United Hatzalah, a non-profit organization that offers immediate response to medical emergencies by sending young volunteers on scooters who can get to emergency scenes before ambulances can.

The company Geotectura has broken ground on Israel’s very first LEED Platinum Building. From brownfield rehabilitation to the most advanced energy and water saving techniques, the PSES EcoBuilding’s groundbreaking design is bound to inspire a whole new era of sustainable development.

An Israeli company has developed a system that helps take the pressure off 3G data networks by “off-loading” usage to WiFi hotspots. The company, called WeFi, provides an application of the same name that lets you search and find millions – over 100 million, in fact – open Wifi hotspots all over the world!

According to a study conducted at Tel Aviv University, about a quarter of Israeli youth may develop hearing disorders due to prolonged exposure to music players and loud noise. 289 adolescents aged 13-17 participated in the study that examined the habits of music listening on MP3 players, mobile phones and computers.

Israeli scientists have developed a new process by which any oil, including leftovers of fast food joints, or "falafel stands," as they say, can be turned into biodiesel, without requiring much energy in the process.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University are strengthening the odds in favor of permanent tumor destruction — and an immunity to the cancer’s return — with a new method of tumor removal. Based on “tumor ablation,” the researchers developed a radioactive wire to insert in tumors, less than an inch long and about the width of a pin.