European Parliament approves ‘pioneering’ rules to govern AI
Senior European Union officials say the rules, first proposed in 2021, will protect citizens from the risks of a technology...Science
SpaceX Crew-7 returns after six-month mission on Space Station
Washington, United States - Four astronauts splashed down off Florida in the Gulf of Mexico on their return to Earth early...Science
Cut airline emissions to meet Paris targets: report
The world needs "early, aggressive and sustained" government intervention to cut aviation emissions if Paris Agreement temperature goals are to...Airlines must start to slash emissions before the end of the decade and by 2025 if possible, said the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) in a new report
Earth's average surface temperature has already risen 1.2C above preindustrial levels
UAE blazes a trail with AI, leads Europe and MENA
The Gulf country leads EMEA in the leverage of data, data science, and AI for the purposes of decision making...The UAE has established itself as a world leader in AI, having been the first nation to appoint a minister of state for AI
Data science and AI are advancing, yet managers and non-managers in the UAE have different perceptions about data utility and AI's role
Saudi Space Commission to launch ‘Madar’ training program for students, workers
Saudi Space Commission will help and train 1,000 students and workers about space to national capabilities, cadres and skills in...Saudi Space Commission will teach 1,000 male and female trainees from various scientific specialties about the space sector
The program aims at raising the level of knowledge by providing theoretical and practical courses in the space sector
UAE to chair Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
The UAE has been chosen to lead the Committee on The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPOUS) out of 100...COPOUS is one of the largest UN committees playing a major role in governing the exploration and use of space
The Committee is part of The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), and reports to the Fourth Committee of the General Assembly
Iraq battles with outbreak of deadly nose-bleed fever
Spraying a cow with pesticides, health workers target blood-sucking ticks at the heart of Iraq's worst detected outbreak of a...The sight of the health workers, dressed in full protective kit, is one that has become common in the Iraqi countryside, as the Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever spreads
Transmitted by ticks, hosts of the virus include both wild and farmed animals such as buffalo, cattle, goats and sheep
Boeing Starliner completes key test mission to ISS
Astronauts living aboard the station opened the hatch and "greeted" the capsule's passengers: Rosie the Rocketeer, a mannequin equipped with...The gumdrop-shaped spaceship landed in a puff of sand at 4:49 pm local time (2249 GMT) in the New Mexico desert
Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) was the last hurdle for Starliner to clear before it carries humans in another test flight due to take place by the end of this year
From ‘child of war’ to two-term WHO chief
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the first African to head the WHO, was re-elected on Tuesday, tearfully accepting a second term as...The UN health agency did not provide a breakdown, but sources in the room said he had received 155 of the 160 votes cast
The 57-year-old malaria expert has also increasingly been sounding the alarm over the heavy toll that conflicts like the war in Ukraine are taking on global health
Boeing’s Starliner docks with ISS in high-stakes test mission
NASA is looking to certify Starliner as a second "taxi" service for its astronauts to the space station a role...Starliner spaceship made contact at 8:28 pm Eastern time, 24 hours after it took off from the Kennedy Space Center
Success of spaceship will be the key to re-establish Boeing's credibility after its first launch in 2019 which was failed to dock with the ISS due to software bugs
MBRSC and EGA look to collaborate in field of research
Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre and Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA) are looking to collaborate in research and the use of...Al Marri was received at EGA's Jebel Ali site in Dubai by Chief Executive Officer Abdulnasser bin Kalban, and the company's leading technologists
The two parties discussed potential future synergies, including the use of EGA metal by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in constructing its next spacecraft
Stay off social media to improve your mental health: Study
It’s no secret that too much social media can be bad for one’s mental health. Now, research suggests that taking...Staying off social media for a week meant, for some study participants, gaining about nine hours of free time, which improved their well-being, British researchers report.
Those who took a break from social media had significant improvements in well-being, depression and anxiety, compared with those who continued to use social media, the study found.
