As reported in Israel21C: Vecoy Nanomedicines has a whole new approach: a virus ‘decoy’ to outwit the world’s worst enemy before it does any damage. There’s the West Nile Virus forging a deadly path in North America, and a new round of Ebola in Africa. Then there’s bird flu, SARS and a handful of other […]
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As reported in Israel21c: With gas-pump prices soaring along with the demand for energy independence, energy experts in the United States are eagerly awaiting the results of an Israeli pilot using M15, a fuel made of 15 percent methanol and 85% gasoline. Methanol is made from natural gas, a substance that both countries have […]
As reported in israel21c: House mold, smelly armpits, dust mites, “sick building syndrome” and hospital-borne bacterial infections now face tough competition: Israeli startup Better Air has developed a novel air filtration system that uses millions of “good” bacteria called probiotics to overtake the “bad” bacteria and their associated contaminants infiltrating indoor living, healing and workspaces. […]
As reported in israel21c: Shipping companies, aviation specialists, sailors, farmers, wind turbine owners – — even the Boy Scouts – know that better weather prediction leads to a better ability to avoid risks to infrastructure, products and lives. This is especially true when faced with today’s increasingly unpredictable weather. Professionals with a lot at stake […]
As reported in No Camels: Roughly three percent of all children suffer from sleep apnea, a disorder characterized by abnormal pauses in breathing or instances of abnormally low breathing during sleep, according to Israel’s Soroka Medical Center. The most common cause for this medical condition is inflamed tonsils and/or adenoids (third tonsil) and can lead […]
As reported in No Camels: Israeli company eyeSight has collaborated with Korean company Innodigital to produce a TV set-top box that turns any television set into a gesture-controlled smart TV. The product, called nTobeBox, will run on Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich OS and is the result of five years of R&D, eyeSight says. Unlike other […]
As reported in GreenProphet; In teddy bears, iPhones and baby sleep monitors: turn off those LED lights at night before they affect your sleep cycles and health! Professor Abraham Haim, an authority on the biological effects of light pollution, presented his findings last week at the International Congress of Zoology (ICZ) in Haifa Israel. World […]
Minister of Finance Dr. Yuval Steinitz met today in his office in Jerusalem with Bob McDonald, Chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble International. The meeting took place as part of a visit by a delegation of industrialists from the US, with the assistance of Bnei Brith International. Participants in the meeting also included […]
As reported in Israel 21c: An Israeli-invented toilet that needs no water and leaves no waste caught the interest of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which awarded parent company Paulee CleanTec $110,000 “to create next generation sanitation technology to help make sanitation services truly safe and sustainable for the poor.” “We are one […]
As reported in Israel 21c: Imagine pulling back the tab of a drink box, drinking its contents, and then throwing what’s left in the backyard compost heap to fully decompose –– just like one would a fruit peel? This was the dream of mother and computer-engineer-turned-entrepreneur Daphna Nissenbaum from Israel. Her dream has turned into […]
