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Science has a clear answer, yet some clerics try to frame them as a kind of divine punishment from God. Nash Weerasakera

Science vs religion: An explanation of earthquakes

Some Islamists are exploiting the disaster to scare Muslims into blindly following their ideology

Khalid al-Ghannami 16 Feb 2023
A staff member of the Seismology Center points to a chart showing the earthquake activity detected by the central Weather Bureau in Taipei on April 20, 2015.  AFP

Understanding earthquakes: A history of seismology

With the establishment of seismology as a field in the 19th century the monitoring of earthquakes became a much more precise science

Abdel-Rahman Ayas 09 Feb 2023
Jonas Aqvist, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Olof Ramstrom, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry announce winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry Caroline R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless, during a news conference at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, October 5, 2022. TT News Agency/Christine Olsson via REUTERS

Nobel Prize Goes to Pioneers of Lego-like "Click Chemistry"

Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for discovering reactions that let molecules snap together to create new compounds…

05 Oct 2022
Abdullah Gohar, a researcher at El Mansoura University works on renovating the 43 million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown four-legged amphibious whale called "Phiomicetus Anubis", that helps trace the transition of whales from land to sea, which were discovered in the Fayum Depression in the Western Desert of Egypt, near the town of El Mansoura, north of Cairo, Egypt August 26, 2021. (REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)

Egyptian Amphibian Whale Walked the Land 43 Million Years Ago!

A research team led by Egyptian scientists has succeeded in recording the discovery of the genus and species of the ancestors of amphibian whales, which roamed Egyptian waters about 43 million years…

Salma Adham 07 Sep 2021
More than 50% of female faculty and staff experienced sexually harassing behavior in academic science and medicine, according to a 2018 report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. (TNS)

For Women in Science, ‘Visibility’ Isn’t Always a Good Thing

One of my mentees, a young doctor, laughed when I recently told her how two of my adult daughters crawled across the bedroom floor to take a photo of my computer screen because Golden State Warriors…

Margaret Handley 04 Jul 2021
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World War I film wins Oscar in nod to Ukraine war

14 Mar 2023

War has long been a fixture of the cinema industry and it is no surprise that amid the Ukraine war, 'All Quiet on the Western Front' wins this prestigious awardrn

Mohammed Rouda
BBC TV presenter Gary Lineker prepares to broadcast inside the make-shift television studio ahead of the English FA Cup quarter-final football match. AFP
Politics

Sunak achievements overshadowed by Lineker controversy

14 Mar 2023

With the BBC agreeing on Lineker to return to work, Sunak hopes the issue will blow over. But this seems unlikely

Christopher Phillips
The iconic singer has touched the hearts and souls of Arabs throughout the region with her nostalgic songs about the glorious homelands that once were Andy Edwards
Culture & Social Affairs

Celebrating Fairuz, Lebanon’s ambassador to the stars

13 Mar 2023

The iconic singer has touched the hearts and souls of Arabs throughout the region with her nostalgic songs about the glorious homelands that once were

Mohamed abi Samra
After Syrians experienced the brutalities of war for more than a decade as the world stood by watching, earthquake survivors say they didn't expect help this time either Eduardo Ramon
Culture & Social Affairs

"We knew we would be left to die under the rubble"

12 Mar 2023

After Syrians experienced the brutalities of war for more than a decade as the world stood by watching, earthquake survivors say they didn't expect help this time either

Khaled Khalifa
This transformational development is part of the Kingdom's broad Vision 2030 reforms, which also support women's rights, a developed legislative system, and a renewed economic policy Julien Pacaud
Culture & Social Affairs

Saudi Arabia experiencing transformational development in the realm of philosophy

05 Mar 2023

This transformational development is part of the Kingdom's broad Vision 2030 reforms, which also support women's rights, a developed legislative system, and a renewed economic policy

Saad Almuharib

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