China’s achievements in the arena of outer space continue to make headlines across the globe. The nation’s most recent successes include their Chang’e lunar mission series, which saw the first…

It's no secret that Facebook has feelings about the upcoming changes Apple plans to introduce to iOS 14.5. Apple has said it will require developers to request permission from users before they can…

In a parable in the Han dynasty philosophical text The Huainanzi, a fool goes to the market to buy a pair of shoes. Finding the shoes too small, he cuts off his toes rather than admit that the shoes…

After a week-long confusion in Europe over the safety of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, Oxford immunologist-vaccinologist Dr. Ahmed Salman spoke to Majalla about the scientific and…

At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many feared that the disease would hit the world’s poorest countries the hardest—that cases would overwhelm hospitals, health-care workers would run out of…

Many observers have discussed how China is using its Covid-19 medical aid as a means to improve its soft power, or even to exert geopolitical control overseas. A recent poll of Southeast Asian states…

Shared transnational challenges are supposed to bring the world together. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, has done the opposite, exposing the shortcomings of the structures that govern global health…

Nanotechnology is spurring a new industrial revolution. The process of engineering materials on an incredibly small scale (a human hair is about 80,000 nanometers wide) has led to advancements in…

President Vladimir Putin’s announcement in August that Russia had cleared the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine for use before it even completed safety trials sparked skepticism worldwide. Now he may…

By now, it has become clear that the means to end the COVID-19 pandemic will reach people in poor countries far later than they will get to people in wealthy ones. Only one of the 29 poorest…