The UAE’s Space Programme Is Building an Economy of Curiosity
Mars missions made headlines, but the deeper value lies in research, Earth observation, engineering skills and a private space sector with regional reach.
Jul 28, 2026

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24 stories for“building science”
Mars missions made headlines, but the deeper value lies in research, Earth observation, engineering skills and a private space sector with regional reach.
Jul 28, 2026

Depth is usually protective. But a deep earthquake shakes a far wider area, and what determines whether buildings fall is not magnitude at all. It is ground motion, soil, and how the structure was built.
Aug 12, 2026

Traditional Arab screens get praised in general terms and tested rarely. Field studies in hot climates put a figure on what they do, and the figure is real, useful, and smaller than the romantic version of the story suggests.
Aug 22, 2026

NOAA's seventh West Coast ocean-acidification survey is tracking chemistry and marine life during unusual Pacific conditions. The findings matter to reefs, fisheries and divers.
Aug 1, 2026

New Genesis Mission commitments connect frontier models with national laboratories, supercomputers and experiments, where validation matters more than eloquence.
Jul 31, 2026

More than 500 species of vesper bat turn out to carry two separate sets of antibody heavy chain genes, where every other known mammal has one. The researchers are careful to say this does not fully explain why bats tolerate viruses.
Sep 4, 2026

Engineered colonies of a plant bacterium pass chemical signals across five millimetres of agar, switching each other on and off like components on a board. The team built adders, routers and logic gates. The point is a computer that can grow on a leaf.
Sep 8, 2026

Women’s growing participation is reshaping workplaces, entrepreneurship and the range of role models visible to the next Saudi generation.
Jul 28, 2026

VO2 max strongly predicts longevity, but the evidence that slow, low-intensity Zone 2 training is the best way to raise it is weaker than the trend suggests.
Jan 15, 2025

A hands-on Qatar technology program is guiding 124 young participants from ideas toward viable startups. The deeper value lies in learning how to test, build and adapt.
Aug 1, 2026

Researchers generated electricity from a hydrogen turbine that compresses using detonation rather than a mechanical compressor. Removing that component changes the efficiency ceiling.
Aug 6, 2026

WHO guidance targets free sugars, not all sugar. The distinction changes how a bowl of cereal or a smoothie should be judged.
Sep 10, 2024

The concluded UK-GCC free-trade agreement could reshape services, procurement and investment, but companies should focus on implementation details rather than celebratory totals.
Aug 3, 2026

No-cook breakfast where rolled oats soak overnight in plant milk. Three flavor profiles, infinite variations, ready to eat.
Oct 12, 2025

RNA polymerase from E. coli transcribed a synthetic eight-letter genetic alphabet using the same signals it uses for natural DNA. The finding, in Nature Communications, means cells may not need rewiring to speak an expanded language.
Sep 6, 2026

The children who spent more hours on screens showed better cognitive processing as teenagers, which is the opposite of what the study was designed to find. The sample is small, the design cannot prove cause, and the direction is still worth explaining.
Aug 22, 2026

A delayed mortality count reveals the June heatwave’s true scale, showing why the deadliest climate disaster can pass quietly behind ordinary causes of death.
Jul 23, 2026

One doctor outdrew every health ministry in the region using a phone and a food list. The conditions that allowed it are structural, and they have not changed since he died.
Jul 18, 2026

Protein went from fitness afterthought to grocery store obsession. Now it's in your cereal, ice cream, and pasta. Why did one nutrient consume America.
Jun 18, 2024

Nausea is the least of it. Here is an honest look at GLP-1 side effects, the thyroid warning, pancreatitis and who is advised to avoid them.
Jul 10, 2024

A team in Ottawa and Erlangen put a window sized lens in the sun, funnelled the light down a glass cone into a fibre the width of a hair, and got entangled photons at ninety four per cent fidelity. The Sun is not supposed to be able to do this.
Aug 25, 2026

New mortality data pinpoints how much weekly strength training lowers death risk, and shows more is not always better.
Apr 10, 2025

A Chinese startup's R1 model wiped nearly $600 billion off Nvidia's value in a single day, exposing how fragile the AI spending story had become.
Jan 29, 2025

Nitrogen narcosis dulls judgment before a diver notices anything is wrong. Here is why depth impairs decision making, and why self-diagnosis often fails.
May 22, 2024
