Children Snoring At Higher Risk Of Heart Disease, Study Finds
An Israeli study reveals that children who snore in their sleep, are at a higher risk of heart disease. Early detection and surgery can help significantly reduce the risk, the study finds.
April 12, 2011
Jordanian PhD Student Studying In Israel To Bring Knowledge Back Home
Israeli Ben-Gurion University's first Jordanian PhD student discusses his work in desalination and a road to regional peace through science.
April 10, 2011
Israel Medical Teams Focus Attention On Japan Quake, Build 7 Facilities
Three days after the earthquake leveled Haiti last year, Israeli medical teams set up a hospital in a soccer field with equipment and supplies unheard of in the rest of the broken city. Now Israel has erected 7 medical buildings at Japan's "ground zero."
April 10, 2011
Israeli App Testing Company Turns From Google And Microsoft To Startups
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.
April 09, 2011
Direct Evidence Found Linking Stress To Cancer
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.
April 09, 2011
All Hands: Touch-Free Is Fast Overtaking Touch-Screen
One of the major technological revolutions of the past few years has been the touch-screen. But it seems that trend may already be passé, with the touch-less technology becoming the real star. And it's all happening in Israel.
April 06, 2011
Israeli Neonatal Care Program Combats Child Mortality In Ghana
With nearly 25% infant mortality rate, Ghana asked help from Israel's Agency for International Development in 2007. Nearly five years later, 10,000 mothers and babies have gone through neonatal care in Israeli built clinics.
April 03, 2011
Israeli Tech Geeks Wage War Against Latest Spam Robots
When distributors of Viagra, porn and the like want to plant their advertisements over the net, they use automated scripts, or "spambots." Israeli company SiteBlackBox, specializes in detecting automated spambot processes in websites.
April 03, 2011
Israeli Company To Help Fight World Hunger By Creating ‘Bigger, Healthier Seeds’
In the fields of the Galilee in Israel, big and healthy seeds are grown which some claim could alter the world hunger crisis and shortage of fuel, no less. Kaiima, an Israeli agricultural start-up, is multiplying the genome of plants and making them bigger, stronger and more fertile.
April 02, 2011
American Football Brings Israelis And Palestinians Together
A championship game of the American football league in Israel again brings together people from opposites sides of political spectrum - this time in celebration
April 02, 2011
Frustrated Tourists: Your Phone Could Become Your Personal Translator!
A new service being developed in Haifa, Israel, called Lexifone, claims to solve the linguistics barrier between tourist and local. Simply put, you will be able to say the desired sentences to your phone, after which it will translate it to your interlocutor in his language.
March 29, 2011
“Do Touch”: World’s First Deaf-Blind Acting Group
Nalaga'at center, an unusual warehouse in Israel's old Jaffa Port, is the only place in the world where you can drink coffee served by deaf and blind waiters while waiting to see a show performed by the first deaf-blind acting ensemble in the world.
March 28, 2011
In Wake Of Japan Quake, Israelis & Jordanians Work Together
Although Jordan and Israel have long had their differences, the possibility of earthquakes in the Syrian-African Rift inspired a cooperation between the Arab and Jewish country.
March 28, 2011
IBM High-Tech “Cloud” Technology Introduced In Agriculture
The world's first agricultural "cloud" system will help farmers around the world with pest control; pricing; international regulations, all according to their individual needs.
March 28, 2011
Scientists Discover How Bacteria Communicate
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a pathway whereby harmful bacteria communicate with each other
March 28, 2011