Two previous attempts have ended in spectacular explosions, though that's not necessarily a bad thing: the company has adopted a...
- Senior European Union officials say the rules, first proposed in 2021, will protect citizens from the risks of a technology...
The World Health Organization called Tuesday for countries to keep calm and take "rational" measures in response to the new,...First reported to the WHO in southern Africa less than a week ago, the new strain has rapidly spread across continents
The UN health agency has cautioned against such restrictions, fearing that blocking travel from countries where new variants are first spotted could be unfair
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.
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
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
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
- 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
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.
- 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
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
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
