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Imam Al-Ghazali. Wikicommons

Al-Ghazali and the myth of civilisational decline

Examining the idea that one man's critique caused the silencing of science and philosophy across the Arab world at a time of discovery and progress.

Abdullah Al-Rashid 12 April 2026
China`s Chang'e 4 lunar probe lands on the moon's surface with the sun in the background. Shutterstock

Chinese lunar mission peels back hidden layers of the moon

In an interview with Al Majalla, prominent planetary scientist Jianqing Feng, sheds light on the moon's geological history and the enigmatic layered structures beneath its surface.

Khaled Yousri 26 September 2023
Celsius Pictor

Insight into how brain tells time brings Einstein's theory of relativity down to earth

Time has long been mysterious, from Aristotle to Einstein. Now, new research shows how perceptions of it work in the brain, with echoes of the forces that shape the cosmos.

Mohammed Mansour 25 July 2023
The rich relationship between Arabs and the stars began with the need to navigate and then deepened into a detailed intellectual endeavour to understand. Muhammad Mustafa

The stars: The Arabs' map in the sky

The rich relationship between Arabs and the stars began with the need to navigate and then deepened into a detailed intellectual endeavour to understand.

Abdullah Al-Rashid 12 June 2023
Futuristic server room with quantum computers and group of scientists. Getty

Quantum computing opens horizons in data processing

It is a major paradigm leap in computing capabilities, offering promise in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, healthcare, manufacturing, cybersecurity, and financial services

Abdel-Rahman Ayas 03 May 2023
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 15 February 2023
With the establishment of seismology as a field in the 19th century the monitoring of earthquakes became a much more precise science. Getty

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 February 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 October 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 03 September 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 July 2021
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04 June 2026

Days before kick-off, ambitious economic projections for the FIFA 2026 World Cup are colliding with weaker-than-expected demand in the hospitality sector

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The company is bracing for a potentially record-breaking IPO where investors are being asked to buy into more than just a company

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An Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jew reacts near a part of a missile protruding from the ground, following strikes from Iran, in the central Israeli-occupied West Bank, on 8 June 2026. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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How Israel and Iran came back to the brink

08 June 2026

The US-Israeli military campaign against Iran ended in a fragile ceasefire in early April, but it did not resolve any of the underlying disputes

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Sara Ishaq arrives T THE 86th Annual Academy Awards Oscar Week Celebrates Documentaries at AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater on 26 February 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. VALERIE MACON /AFP
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Cannes pick 'The Station': Yemeni sorority at its best

05 June 2026

In an interview with Al Majalla, Oscar-nominated director Sara Ishaq dives into gripping human stories where women hold the line in war-torn Yemen

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