The Dead Sea Scrolls are coming back to life with the restoration project being commenced by Israel's Antiquities Authority. Using high-tech cameras, they will photograph each fragment of the scrolls, and the best part is it will be made available for public viewing over the Internet.

It seems Galilee used to hide things other than a young Jesus Christ. A recent excavation at Galilee in Israel uncovered some Roman temple ruins from the 2nd century A.D. Learn more after the jump!

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered what seems to be the remains of a 2,000-year old mansion belonging to the royal clan that ruled Adiabene, a region in current day northern Iraq.

The remains of the building was found just outside the walls of Jerusalem's Old City, hidden under the asphalt of a small parking lot in the eastern part of the city. This discovery was by far the largest and most elaborate one discovered in the City of David area.

There are many ways to detect the presence of a bomb, but most of them require expensive equipment and even more expensive training. However, through the ingenious use of a few chemicals and old-fashioned science wizardry, chemists have invented a new and easily available way on not only to suss out explosives, but also to find out just who's been in contact with them.

How is this done, you ask? The answer is a bit more convenient than you think, one that comes in the shape and form of a spray-on material that turns red when it comes in contact with a common improvised explosive.

While this in itself can pinpoint traces of explosive in a room, it can be taken one step further by spraying it directly onto the hands or fingers of individuals suspected to have been doing naughty stuff with explosives. A simple squirt here and there, and there you go - a rough and ready way to detect who's been toying with improvised bombs or not.

Neat, isn't it? And this nifty little idea came from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where scientists such as Joseph Almog work hard to create bomb-detecting chemicals. The one we just mentioned is specifically designed to detect Urea Nitrate, a common improvised explosive that has claimed hundreds of lives in Israel.

But what about the other types of bombs, and even firearms? Not to worry - it's just one of the many chemicals that Joseph and his colleagues are working on to provide authorities all over the world with rough and ready ways to detect contraband. Another spray, called FerroTrace, turns dark violet when it comes in contact with hands that have recently held firearms or grenades.

Certainly good that there are dedicated individuals hard at work to make our lives just a little bit safer. You can check out the complicated process of coming up with such a chemical at the Read link we've provided below.

It was probably inevitable; the fact that Apple's iPhone is now available with a software unlock in more than 40 countries all over the globe before it's even supposed to be officially available in some of these areas.

The image (left) shows the list compiled by the iPhone Dev Team of 32 countries and 69 carriers with the iPhone software unlock already been tested and good to go. The phones were confirmed to have working incoming and outgoing calls, as well as SMS compatibility, EDGE/GPRS access, and non-visual voicemail access.

In actuality, however, the list above has recently been appended with an additional 10 countries and 11 carriers according to additional contributions from the source's website. With the growing number of software unlocked iPhones being made available worldwide, who knows? Perhaps you'll find a working iPhone just around the corner from where you live before you know it.

Additional countries and carriers include:

• New Zealand/Vodafone
• Spain/Movistar
• Poland/Orange
• Czech Republic/Vodafone
• Bahrain/Batelcom/MTC Vodafone
• Israel/Cellcom
• Hungary/T-Mobile
• Belgium/Proximus/Base/Mobistar
• Kuwait/Wataniya
• Ireland/Meteor

Here's a bit of strange news: Blizzard's Warcraft.net and Battle.net websites have recently come under attack from an Algerian hacker who went by the name of "LeHackeur".

This hacker added an extra file on the sites' main servers, which displayed an image of a skull, as well as a message of USA versus Israel to whoever visited either of those sites at the time of the attack.

What's interesting about this is that besides the imagery and message, the hacker also left a note, apologizing to the admin of the sites and reassuring that he didn't delete any of the original content. And it looks to be that way, as both websites are now back up with everything all spiffy-like. It's as if they never got hacked in the first place.

While it's certainly bad that the site security got compromised, it also goes to show that there's good in everyone. Let's just hope that Blizzard beefs up the security, as the next attack might not be as polite.

By the looks of it, it seems that iPhone hacking isn't going to stop anytime soon, given the mobile phone's flexibility and power. Just today, we learned that these hacks "have finally gone international" as three Israeli computer engineers have hacked the phone's system making it compatible with mobile carriers in Israel.

According to initial reports, the hackers (Dubbi, Ofir, and Eli) bought the iPhones in the United States for personal use without thinking of tinkering with its security system. Ofir was even quoted saying that "the iPhone would be just a nice gadget and not an active phone if it was used in Israel".

It's unclear at this stage, however, why the three ended up cracking the iPhone but Eli shared that anyone can actually do it. He added that while hacking the phone's security system didn't cost any money, it did cost him a lot of time.

As of this writing, the three are still not willing to made public how they did the trick.

61-year-old Israeli pediatrician Igal Kushnir and his company Deep Breeze has developed a new technology called Vibration Response Imaging (VRI). What it does is measure energy generated in the lungs, analyze it, and then display an image of the person's lungs in one go.

This new technology has been found to accurately diagnose lung conditions such as asthma, pneumonia, and lung tumors.
 
What makes this method so amazing is the fact that it uses no radiation. It works by analyzing acoustic vibrations resonating or sounds from a person's lungs, much like a stethoscope. The lung vibrations are then fed to a computer, where it's displayed as images.

Deep Breeze was given approval by the US Food and Drug Administration last July 23 to begin marketing a VRI device in the U.S. Other countries such as Israel, the European Union, and South Korea have also cleared the product for distribution.

While the technology is still expensive at an average price of US$ 40,000 to US$ 50,000 per unit. Deep Breeze is working to create cheaper versions of it which will go for as low as US$ 10,000 per machine. This is big news in the medical community as this device will undoubtedly save a lot of lives by removing a lot of the guesswork usually experienced in using the common stethoscope.

84% of smokers hate the habit, according to a study we talked about earlier. This contraption from Chinese company, Golden Dragon Group, Ltd. aims to make smoking fun for the fed-up smokers and hopefully, this new kind of cigarettes could help smokers kick the habit once and for all.

The Chinese company is currently busy promoting the world's first electronic cigarette called Ruyan. The Ruyan smokes are battery-powered, cigarette shaped contraptions that would give smokers their nicotine fix by giving nicotine to inhalers in a bid to give the illusion of smoking. Apparently, nicotine is delivered to the lungs within 7-10 seconds. Scott Fraser of SBT Co. Ltd. - the company who developed Ruyan added:

It feels like a cigarette, looks like a cigarette, it even emits vapor. In many ways, it is like an actual smoking experience, and that's what makes us different.

This would sell for roughly 1,600 yuan (or US$ 208) apiece. Currently, it is already available in China, Israel, Turkey, and a handful of European countries. No word of a U.S. release has been uttered by the company.

Well, we guess if you pick up the Ruyan, you won't be needing your coughing ashtray anymore, huh?

Palestinian workmen surveying a suburb which will be laid with a light rail have stumbled upon a little surprise: An entire city buried 2,000 years ago was underneath the settlement all along.

The city is yet to be properly identified, but archaeologists say that there's a fat chance that it's the ancient city of Noh where ancient Israel's King Saul was chosen by priests in hiding.

Archaeologist Rachel Bar Nathan says "no one knew of a city of this importance just a few kilometres (miles) north of Jerusalem, and its name remains unknown." Using spades and brushes, the 50-member work team explored the ancient city and excavated some interesting finds.

Among the items recovered were jars hidden within building walls containing coins. A gold piece depicting emperor Trajan suggests that the city was visited by Roman forces in the year 98 to 117. Evidence that the city was ransacked, burned and abandoned suggested how the city came to be buried.

Regardless of the discovery, the Palestinian authorities will still pursue the light rail project and will take appropriate measures to preserve the integrity of the site in the process. Their solution? Bury the city all over again after exploration and proceed with the construction.

The city is one of the best of its age when it comes to waterworks as the city has extensive ducts and canals which supplied fresh water to bath houses that used thermal techniques introduced by the Romans.