Research on multiple sclerosis wins ‘Oscars of science’
Stephen Hauser and Alberto Ascherio were recognized for their decades researching the debilitating neurodegenerative disease, which affects nearly three million...Science
‘I don’t have a voice in my head’: Life with no inner monologue
Paris, France - Mel May only realised she was different while reading a news article one day. "Wait, what? Some...Science
Saudi culture ministry provides training in UNESCO program
Under its recently announced Experts Program, the Saudi Ministry of Culture has provided an intensive leadership training course for Man...MAB is an intergovernmental scientific program that seeks to enhance the relationship between people and their environments through natural and social sciences.
Delivered in partnership with the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science in the Arab States, the course brought together 17 local and international participants.
Video games not as harmful for children as feared
Parents often worry about the harmful impacts of video games on their children, but a large new US study indicates...For the new research, Chaarani and colleagues analyzed data from the large and ongoing Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study
Future studies could also benefit from knowing what genres of games the children were playing -- though at age 10 children tend to favor action games
Robotic suit gives paralyzed children gift of walking
The mechanical joints of the battery-powered titanium suit adapt intelligently to the motion of each child, according to the European Patent...The suit helps to achieve in record time rehabilitation goals that would take months to achieve with conventional therapies
The benefits include muscle strengthening, improvement of the digestive and respiratory systems and a major mood boost
Trust in digital services increases across MENA region despite rising online security threats
MENA residents' satisfaction and expectations about how services can and should be delivered have been radically altered due to the...MENA residents' satisfaction and expectations about how services can and should be delivered have been radically altered due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Increased interest and spending on technological infrastructure, especially artificial intelligence is in line with the global trend toward digitization
Dubai’s Museum of the Future to house Global Futurist Society
The Global Futurist Society headquarter at the MOTF creates a physical center for international and cross-border dialogue.The Global Futurist Society headquarter at the MOTF creates a physical center for international and cross-border dialogue
It will harness the knowledge and expertise of local and global networks and members of the constituent parties to shape practices in future
World’s first space tourist plans new flight to Moon with SpaceX
Musk has promised the rocket will complete its first orbital test this year, and a version of Starship has already...The weeklong mission would see Starship fly within 125 miles of the lunar surface before returning home
The voyage will take place after Elon Musk's company has finished developing its prototype Starship rocket
Human brain cells implanted in rats offer research gold mine
Researchers implanted the groupings of human brain cells, called organoids, into the brains of young rats. The rats' age was...Scientists can assemble small sections of human brain tissue made from stem cells in petri dishes, and have already done so with more than a dozen brain regions
But in dishes, "neurons don't grow to the size which a human neuron in an actual human brain would grow," said Sergiu Pasca, the study's lead author
DEWA invites proposals for work on sixth phase of solar park
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has invited international developers to send their Expressions of Interest (EOI) to implement the...The 900 MW sixth phase of the Solar Park will be implemented using photovoltaic solar panels.
The production capacity of clean energy has reached about 12.1 percent of Dubai’s total energy mix.
‘Unit 3 of Barakah Plant linked to UAE’s transmission grid’
The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) announced that Unit 3 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant has successfully been connected...Unit 3 will add another 1,400 megawatts of zero-carbon emission electricity capacity to the national grid.
The nuclear sector is a vital part of the UAE’s clean energy system of multiple low-carbon technologies.
Nobel winner’s discoveries can lead to cancer breakthroughs
The multitude of applications made possible by Carolyn Bertozzi's findings are impressive: delivering treatments with extreme precision, understanding better how...When Carolyn Bertozzi started her research in 1997, the Stanford professor was aiming only to observe the evolution of certain molecules on the surface of cancer cells
Using bioorthogonal chemistry, "we made a new type of medicine, which basically acts like a lawnmower," says Bertozzi
