A hotel for orchids recently opened in Israel, with all the accommodations and pampering treatments this flower loves. The stay costs approximately $0.60 per night, leaving the flower owners feeling confident when they go away on holiday.

PicScout, an Israeli startup founded in 2002 and now the world leader in the tracking of the illegal downloads and use of licensed images online, was last week bought by Getty Images, one of the worlds largest stock photo agencies, for $20 million.

An Israeli cleantech company will be providing water purifying systems to Peru and is in talks to do the same in England and South Africa after it invented a unique floating device.

A t-shirt that tests heart activity, called Niturit has recently been developed by an Israeli-Portuguese team. The t-shirt can test heart activity and transmit the data to a medical center in real time. The European Space Agency is already using the shirt to test their astronauts.

As children, we read stories about bees which taught us to believe that the stingy creatures are only attracted to the sweet nectar of flowers. It turns out that some types of bees just prefer good old plain fruits and vegetables, which makes them invaluable for farmers.

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have discovered a way to reverse the aging process by removing old B lymphocytes – a kind of white blood cell in vertebrate immune systems from old mice.

Israeli Startup SuperFish has created an add-on program called WindowShopper - bringing every type of clothing you want into one simple screen using their revolutionary visual search engine.

A project initiated by TAU's School of Computer Science and funded by the U.S. internet giant Google would make computers learn from past mistakes in order to better anticipate the future.

Three Israeli innovators are among 80 people worldwide to be awarded a scholarship to a prestigious NASA graduate program, which will assist the students in executing initiatives aimed at dealing with the pressing world challenges.

With global air travel expected to reach 5.9 trillion passengers by 2015 and concerns for the environment at an all time high, EL AL, Israel's largest international airline, encourages passengers to book online and by doing to offset their carbon emissions.

Researches from a design school in Israel claim they have succeeded in solving a problem that has been preoccupying airlines for years and has even caused aircraft accidents: accumulation of ice on airplanes. And it's all from analyzing the lotus flower.

An internationally acclaimed Israeli concert pianist who developed a software application that translates any text into a human-sounding voice, plans to change our experience of playing video games, listening to audio books and even driving.

Israeli Ben-Gurion University's first Jordanian PhD student discusses his work in desalination and a road to regional peace through science.

A new service provides international testers to check apps and prepare a full report of bugs identified in 48 hours. The service is mainly targeted at early stage start-ups that develop apps for smartphones.

For the first time, a direct link between stress and damage to the chromosomes in every cell has been shown, with the ends – called telomeres – shortening as people are more exposed to chronic emotional stress.