Science

Saudi supercomputer

by Haitham Sabbah October 26, 2008

At last, something worth the money spent: Saudi supercomputer lures researchers By Asma Alsharif JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – A new science and technology university in Saudi Arabia will house one of the world’s largest supercomputers and it is helping lure top researchers to the conservative desert state. The King Abdullah University of Science and [...]

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Religion: The Root of All Evil?

by Haitham Sabbah April 8, 2006

Some interesting readings to start your cyber day: Via Channel 4: In this two-part Channel 4 series, Professor Richard Dawkins challenges what he describes as ‘a process of non-thinking called faith’. Dawkins is well known for bringing to a wide audience the complex scientific concepts that underpin evolution. His first book, The Selfish Gene was [...]

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Today’s Time Waster

by Haitham Sabbah January 17, 2006

Should you have any to waste, read these: 1. Pigs glow in the dark: Scientists in Taiwan have used jellyfish genes and created pigs that glow in the dark. They are the only ones that are green from the inside out. Even their heart and internal organs are green. Although the pigs glow, they are [...]

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Weird news of today

by Haitham Sabbah January 4, 2006

Nasa team sees explosion on Moon and two-headed snake ‘up for auction’ then Yahoo shapes up online video project Reality TV on the Internet and finally a British woman marries Dolphin.

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Physics Professor Explores Explosion Demolition Hypothesis on 9/11

by Haitham Sabbah November 16, 2005

Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse? I’ve got this alert today by email. Honestly, when I first read the title “Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?” I said to myself; not again! But then went on to explore what’s in the research. And to be honest with you, the guy caught my attention. [...]

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Two Hits; Earthquake and Oil Prices

by Haitham Sabbah October 3, 2005

I was not in Jordan when the rumors started about earthquake hits Jordan. But following up the news from Jordan, and small poll at JP, I came to the conclusion that this Earthquake thing is nothing more than a rumor (following the majority of the vote, which I presume are living in Jordan). However, it [...]

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SALT & PEPPER

by Haitham Sabbah October 2, 2005

Winner, Visions of Science Photographic Awards. (BBC; official site) Science is cool (not really, but that’s what we tell ourselves to make ourselves feel better). The coolest science pictures you’re going to see all day. Check out the Top 10 Winners of the Visions of Science Photographic Awards. I’m partial to 6 and 7, for [...]

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Scientists do(n’t) Mix God and Science

by Haitham Sabbah August 24, 2005

Should Scientists Mix God and Science? At a recent scientific conference at City College of New York, a student in the audience rose to ask the panelists an unexpected question: “Can you be a good scientist and believe in God?” The answer was quick and sharp. “No!” declared Herbert A. Hauptman, a Nobel laureates who [...]

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Mauritania gets its first science ministry

by Haitham Sabbah August 22, 2005

In the wake of this month’s military coup, Mauritania has established its first ministry for education and scientific research. Can you believe that?

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When meat is not murder

by Haitham Sabbah August 14, 2005

Guardian suggests that it may soon be possible to produce meat without the need to kill animals. Scientists have adapted the cutting-edge medical technique of tissue engineering, where individual cells are multiplied into whole tissues, and applied them to food production. With a single cell, you could theoretically produce the world’s annual meat supply. Yaaakhh!!!

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Warming hits ‘tipping point’

by Haitham Sabbah August 13, 2005

Siberia feels the heat It’s a frozen peat bog the size of France and Germany combined, contains billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas and, for the first time since the ice age, it is melting.

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Human-brained monkeys

by Haitham Sabbah July 14, 2005

In cutting-edge experiments, scientists have injected human brain cells into monkey fetuses to study the effects. Scientists have been warned that their latest experiments may accidently produce monkeys with brains more human than animal. An eminent committee of American scientists will call for restrictions into the research, saying the outcome of such studies cannot be [...]

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France gets nuclear fusion plant

by Haitham Sabbah June 28, 2005

A Star on Earth: France build a 10bn-euro nuclear fusion reactor. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) will be the most expensive joint scientific project after the International Space Station. Nuclear fusion is seen as a cleaner approach to power production than nuclear fission and fossil fuels.

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In the name of science, zombie dogs walk on earth!

by Haitham Sabbah June 28, 2005

Did you read this story? Scientists Raise The Dead In Dog Experiments: US SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans. Pittsburgh’s Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject’s veins are drained of blood and [...]

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Matrix and Brain Downloads

by Haitham Sabbah June 7, 2005

A couple of months ago, the Japanese entertainment giant Sony has patented an idea for transmitting data directly into the brain, with the goal of enabling a person to see movies and play video games in which they smell, taste and perhaps even feel things, it was reported today. That sounded science fiction? Today I [...]

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