At this historic moment in time, the COVID-19 global pandemic has already caused the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives and disrupted the lives of billions more. Introduction of a vaccine is…
The video starts innocuously. A soldier in camouflage pants and a black shirt speaks to men who are mostly out of frame, punctuating his words with waves of his right hand. A pistol dangles from his…
The missions that humankind has sent farthest into space, a pair of NASA spacecraft called the Voyagers, are billions of miles from Earth. The last time one of them took a picture of its surroundings…
In April, British Prime MinisterBoris Johnsonbecame one of the first high-profile world leaders to contract the novel coronavirus. He was hospitalized for about a week, including several nervous days…
For all that scientists have done to tame the biological world, there are still things that lie outside the realm of human knowledge. The coronavirus was one such alarming reminder, when it emerged…
On Monday, AstraZeneca saidits Covid-19 vaccinewas "highly effective." This comes after similarly positive vaccine news from drug companiesPfizer, which last week applied for emergency use,…
In 2020,Chinabungled its initial response to COVID-19. As a result, the disease spread around the world, crippling economies, killing more than 1.2 million people, and badly damaging Beijing’s image…
As the pandemic rages on, pressures are mounting to get a vaccine available for use as soon as possible. The 11th KAIMRC Annual Forum for Medical Research was held virtually this week to discuss…
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges for families, turning homes into a chaotic mix of home schooling and teleworking.
But guess who bears the brunt of our new way of life? That's…
“Government exists to protect us from each other,” U.S. President Ronald Reagan once famously said, but goes “beyond its limits . . . in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
When applied to…
In what could be a historic turning point in US-Syria relations, the new government in Damascus will likely join the international coalition against the Islamic State (IS)
The 34-year-old socialist's win is a seismic development, proving that tax rises for the rich to fund social programmes, and unwavering advocacy for Palestinian rights, are politically viable stances
Those who are able to bury their dead are among the lucky. For others, not knowing the fate of their missing loved ones or receiving mutilated corpses impossible to identify adds insult to injury.
Digital art is rewriting the rules of the field, revising the meaning of authenticity, and recalibrating the boundary between virtual and physical. Have we lost something here?