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(Thanks to Atid-EDI) Israel’s RiT Technologies has launched Beamcaster – its indoor wireless optical networking solution. The ultra-high bandwidth and ultra-secure wireless technology is ideal for open-plan offices, hospitals, schools and trade shows, providing high connectivity and easy installation.

Israel Technion’s Professor Dan Shechtman has been named as the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of patterns in atoms called quasicrystals. He also discusses his innovative and massively popular course on Technological Entrepreneurships.

The BIRD Foundation is putting another $3.1 million into four Israeli clean-tech companies. Their innovative technology will be used to advance USA renewable energy goals.

President Shimon Peres and Minister of Education Gideon Sa'ar have launched the Israeli future inventor and scientist program. 65 teenagers aged 13-16 are already enrolled.

A team of Israeli and Japanese astronomers have found the largest ever sample of the most distant exploding stars using the Subaru Telescope, located at the 4,200 meter-high summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii.

Israel has implemented new water treatment and fuel fumes treatment facilities that will greatly reduce pollution in Haifa Bay. The upgrade of systems at Haifa's Oil Terminal cost NIS 50million.

Israel’s Technion has put together this short film of its robots and staff wishing everyone a very hi-tech and happy 5773.

Israeli clean-tech company Seambiotic uses algae to turn carbon dioxide from power plants into fuel and feedstock. Seambiotic will launch its first commercial algae farm in China.

Thanks to Israel biotech Evogene’s tools for researching the wheat genome, Bayer Cropscience can improve wheat yield, drought tolerance and fertilizer-use-efficiency of new varieties of wheat.

They are already the best milk-producing cows in the world, but the Department of Ruminants Sciences at the Volcani Centre’s Institute of Animal Science is working to make them even better.