A new breakthrough in crime investigation is now available with a technique that enables forensic officers to isolate individual DNA in a mixed DNA crime scene, a capacity that has, up to now, eluded police.

This year's christmas episode of popular U.S. television show "Glee" ended with what seemed like a holiday miracle. Artie, a character confined to a wheelchair, took a few halting steps with the help of a machine called the ReWalk. "It was invented by some guy in Israel," he said.

An Israeli start-up company, Wise Environment, has recently launched a product called Cell La Vie which it says reduces exposure to mobile phones' electromagnetic radiation by 98 percent.

A non-profit organization activists encouraged passers-by to help clean out the streets from cigarette buds and in return gave out flower.

Israel has a major project underway to build a gene bank of wild plants in danger of extinction. Scientists will even be able to re-introduce plants that have gone extinct.

Two scientists, one Israeli and one Palestinian, have recently started a close cooperation to address the growing regional problem of water shortage.

Possible joint projects include freeze-dry blood technology for battlefield transfusions and diagnostic tool for post-traumatic stress disorder.

A nanostructure that is derived from the simplest organic elements yet is as strong as steel has been developed in Israel.

Israel's ministry of environmental protection has decided it will start paying citizens that produce energy from their organic garbage.

School kids will assist the Dead Sea to earn points in an international competition looking for the new Wonders of the world. [Photo by Tracy Hunter]

ComScore Inc. reports that Russian Internet users are the world’s most active users of social networks, and that Israel is in second place. The survey found 34.5 million Internet users in Russia visited a social network site at least once during August 2010, 74.5% of all Internet users in the country. The average time per […]

It's the fight of the century: in one corner, the bacteria known as "superbugs," and in the other corner the antibacterial drugs known as antibiotics. In bout after bout, newer and stronger superbugs are besting the antibiotics.

"The foundation of Israel's cleantech industry was laid with the beginning of the kibbutz (collective communities) movement at the start of the 20th century, even before the modern state of Israel was founded," according to expert.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University are developing a new family of medicines that could provide preventive treatment for cancer, or turn existing cancer into a chronic disease that one can live with for years.

Dan Senor, co-author of 'Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle,' tells CNBC how Israel has managed to become a leader in business innovation and beat the recession.