With lobster-like claws, a stinger-capped tail, and the ability to kill a human with its poisonous venom, a scorpion is not exactly nature’s most cuddly little creature. So it’s no surprise to associate scorpions with pain, right?

Few people realize that while alcohol-based hand sanitizers may kill bacteria, they do not deactivate viruses such as the swine flu. An innovative product from Israel changes that.

Working with a number of organizations, including the Foreign Ministry’s National Agency for International Cooperation, Eye from Zion dispatched an Israeli medical team of ophthalmologists to Myanmar. In marathon surgical sessions over the last two weeks, they have given back the gift of sight, and more, to a wonderful people.

The broken meter. The Holy Grail of parking. Finding this dream spot just got a whole lot easier for New York City drivers thanks to a new iPhone app. The application, called NYC Broken Meters, was developed by Raviv Turner, a native Israeli and former officer in the Armored Corps who has been living in New York City for the past eight years, and his partner Ilya Levin.

Over the past two years, the National Urban Alliance has been forming a partnership with the Israel-based International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential to introduce a proven method of student assessment that has a 50-year track record of correctly evaluating student learning potential.

While army life is usually synonymous with grease and dust, in Israel, the army is also known as the test lab for some of the world’s most high tech innovations. Paraphrasing on the prophet Isaiah: ” they shall beat their swords into stock options”.

Why is it that mom’s laundry always smells better? What is it in perfume that reminds us of a pleasant, distant memory? These are just some of the questions scientists at the Weizmann Institute’s “smell lab” in Israel are trying to figure out.

The American National Institute of Health has awarded a $2.1 million dollar grant to researchers at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in New York and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, for future research into the genetic origins and possible treatment of schizophrenia.

An Israeli research team finds a stem cell cure for macular degeneration.

When Dr. Ada Yonath was asked to place a bet on her chances to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, she decided to answer the question with a question: “Do you think I should go to the hairdresser?”