- Earlier this year, the UAE rose to the top of Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking, outperforming European countries in terms of...
For one, smart-technology platforms were effectively used in the UAE to combat Covid-19
The UAE also adopted the mandatory use of face masks in March 2020, well ahead of the WHO recommendation
- Crew-3 carried out hundreds of scientific experiments, including growing chilies in space to add to the knowledge of cultivating crops...
Crew-3's expedition came at an increasingly busy time for commercial space.
The ISS now awaits docking with an uncrewed Boeing Starliner capsule, which is set to launch from Florida on May 19.
- In the past, urban excrement was transported to agricultural fields to be used as fertilizer along with animal manure, before...
Chemical fertilizers create emissions of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, contributing to climate change.
Urine is not normally a major carrier of disease, so the World Health Organization recommends leaving it for a period of time, although it is also possible to pasteurize it.
- The United Arab Emirates announced Friday it will send an astronaut on a six-month mission to space, as it seeks...
The country signed "a new agreement to send the first Arab astronaut on a long 180-day mission to the International Space Station", tweeted UAE's vice president Sheikh Mohammed.
The astronaut will be part of the SpaceX Crew-6 mission, scheduled for launch in 2023.
- The pandemic has changed the nature of office work, propelling a massive rise in videoconferencing that looks unlikely to abate...
Seeking to find out how this huge change affects creativity, US researchers studied 1,500 employees of a telecommunications company in Finland, Hungary, India, Israel and Portugal.
The pairs who spoke in person came up with around 15 percent more, according to the study published in the Nature journal.
- The world's first minister for artificial intelligence says the United Arab Emirates isn't only looking for economic benefits as it...
"We are looking at AI as a tool," he told AFP in an interview in Dubai. "It's a tool that we need to use to unleash the quality of life aspect."
The UAE also calls AI "machine intelligence", defining it as a branch of technology enabling systems to "think, learn, and make decisions like humans."
- Under its zero-Covid policy, China has used strict lockdowns, mass testing and severe travel restrictions to stamp out infections. But...
China is struggling with a new wave coronavirus infections, and it reported 52 new Covid deaths on Tuesday
Officials ordered people in 12 central districts to undergo three rounds of PCR testing
- Not even one in four people have completely recovered from Covid a full year after being hospitalized with the disease,...
The study involving more than 2,300 people also found that women were 33 percent less likely to fully recover than men.
The most common long-Covid symptoms were fatigue, muscle pain, poor sleep, slowing down physically and breathlessness













