World’s biggest flying lab comes to Asia on air pollution mission
Clark, Philippines - NASA has kicked off a series of marathon flights in Asia with the world's biggest flying laboratory, in...
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NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars
Ingenuity, a drone about 1.6 feet (0.5 meters) tall, arrived on Mars in 2021 aboard the rover Perseverance and became...
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Qatari institute and Scripps Research sign pact to develop novel medicines
Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) biomedical institute and Scripps Research will collaborate under an agreement to accelerate biomarker and drug...
- The partnership will enable the exchange of expertise and capabilities between laboratories of both institutes.
- Projects led by Scripps Research will focus on developing therapies for intestinal and lung repair.
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World races to contain new Covid variant
Fears mounted Saturday that a highly-infectious new coronavirus strain was pushing its way into Europe as the world brought the...
- South Africa complained that it was being "punished" with air travel bans for first detecting the strain
- Scientists are racing to determine the threat posed by the heavily mutated strain, which is more transmissible than the dominant Delta variant
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UAE gets its first driverless autonomous vehicle
Khalifa University has thus become the first university in the UAE to deploy an Autonomous Vehicle (AV) on campus that...
- The driverless and 100 percent electric shuttle is the first-ever autonomous vehicles to be deployed in the UAE in a mixed traffic mode
- The Khalifa University AV can detect and avoid potential obstacles thanks to the onboard sensors, Light Detection and Ranging, cameras, GPS etc
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B.1.1.529 is ‘variant of concern,’ as WHO names it Omicron
WHO says the new variant ‘has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning.’
- WHO said the Omicron strain was first reported officially by South Africa on November 24
- However, the first known confirmed B.1.1.529 infection was from a specimen collected on November 9
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UAE and Italy to scale up collaboration in bio-sciences
The UAE and Italy can join forces to lead the world through the "structural shift" underway in the biomedical sciences...
- "There is ample scope to work together in new areas, such as biomedical technology"
- UAE was able to respond to 80% of the global and regional demand for medical supplies and aid by distributing more than two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines
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193 countries adopt first global pact on Artificial Intelligence ethics
All member nations of UNESCO adopted on Thursday a historical text that defines the common values and principles needed to...
- The Recommendation on Ethics of AI sets the first global normative framework while giving countries the responsibility to apply it at their level.
- Until the pact, there were no universal safeguards against ethnic bias, privacy threats, dangers of mass surveillance: UNESCO.
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Carbon capture tech finally gaining speed: IEA
For net-zero, carbon-capture tech cannot spend another decade on the sidelines of climate mitigation efforts, said the IEA.
- Carbon-capture tech and facilities say a stagnation, and even regression, from 2010 to 2017
- However, 2021 has seen many countries and organizations promising to scale up the technology due to their net-zero pledges
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Crisis a chance to green Lebanon: environment minister
Lebanon's economic meltdown presents an opportunity to improve the country's environmental policies and tackle its festering waste management crisis, says...
- Lebanon's economy has been in tailspin for two years, leading to a historic currency collapse that has sent poverty rates soaring
- Incompetence and corruption caused a spectacular waste crisis in 2015, when rivers of trash filled the streets and ran into the sea
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NASA launches spacecraft to kick an asteroid off course
The goal is to slightly alter the trajectory of Dimorphos, a "moonlet" around 525 feet wide that circles a much...
- The goal is to slightly alter the trajectory of Dimorphos, a "moonlet" around 525 feet wide that circles a much larger asteroid called Didymos
- Impact should take place in the fall of 2022, when the binary asteroid system is 6.8 million miles from Earth, almost the nearest point they ever get
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RAF claims world first flight using synthetic oil
Group Captain Peter Hackett completed a short flight in an Ikarus C42 microlight aircraft at an airfield in Gloucestershire, western...
- Britain's ministry of defense said it had the potential to save 80-90 percent of carbon per flight.
- The RAF is planning its first airbase to be net zero by 2025 and be carbon neutral across the service by 2040.
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Soaring success: First Saudi astronauts reach space
A SpaceX capsule carrying two Saudi astronauts docked with the International Space Station on Monday, as part of a private...
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Environment ministry reclassifies 64 air quality monitoring stations in UAE
DUBAI, UAE - As part of the Year of Sustainability initiative, UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) has...
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Bahrain, Qatar in focus as UAE astronaut shares unique view of the Gulf from space
Sultan Al Neyadi, the UAE astronaut, honors Bahrain and Qatar from his orbital viewpoint 400km above Earth, describing them as...
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Barnawi’s voyage: First Saudi female astronaut carries dreams of Arab women to space
Two astronauts, Barnawi and Ali Al-Qarni, said that they are fully prepared for their upcoming scientific mission to the International...
- Two astronauts said that they are fully prepared for their upcoming scientific mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which is scheduled on May 21
- Ali Al-Qarni, a pilot in the Saudi Air Force, said that his scientific knowledge would allow him to work on the cloud-seeding experiment in space
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UAE sees 20 percent decrease in nitrogen oxide emissions: study
Dubai, UAE-- The UAE has witnessed a 20 percent drop in nitrogen oxide emissions from power generation activities, according to...
- The findings of the study corresponds with the "National Air Quality Agenda 2031," introduced by the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment
- The UAE aims to lower pollution, improve air quality, foster a safe and healthy environment, and enhance the overall quality of life
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‘Super-sized’ cosmic explosion dwarfs solar system
Astronomers have observed a fireball 100 times the size of our solar system that suddenly began blazing in the distant...
- The explosion is not the brightest flash ever observed in the universe and that record is still held by a gamma-ray burst in October that was nicknamed BOAT
- The only somewhat comparable bright cosmic event is a quasar, when supermassive black holes swallow huge amounts of gas in the centre of galaxies