The Borexino Solar Neutrinos experiment at Gran Sasso laboratories is currently in its third year of operation.  The experiment was able to achieve record background levels which enabled, for the first time, real time observation of solar neutrinos below the natural radioactivity barrier.  I will discuss results from the experiment, including the recent calibration campaign.  I will also review the numerous innovative contributions of the collaboration to the technology of low-background experiments.  Some of these contributions are now finding application in searches for dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay.