The UAE will focus on training Emirati men and women in the space sector by establishing educational competitions, workshops, activities and summer camps for students in the UAE and abroad. The country’s first academic space programme was also launched on Monday by the Space Agency, in partnership with Yahsat, the Masdar Institute and ATK Orbital. "We started talking to theRead more

You might not like it, but you have to give it to Valentine’s Day. If nothing else, it forces you to answer the question: Who do you love? In a 2017 survey by search engine Bing, when people searched for ““Valentine’s Day Gifts For …” the sentence ended with numerous options – 22 per cent looked for a gift forRead more

 Researchers at Stanford University have developed a low-cost, high-performance battery with urea for storing energy produced through solar power or other forms of renewable energy. Unlike lithium-ion batteries, commonly found in small electronics and other devices, the new battery is nonflammable. The urea is commonly found in fertilizers and mammal urine. While it contains electrodes made from abundant aluminum andRead more

Scientists have invented a new kind of thin material that can cool a surface against the heat of the sun without using energy or typical air conditioning, a study said Thursday. The glass-polymer hybrid material measures just 50 micrometers thick -- slightly more than aluminum foil -- and can be manufactured cheaply, researchers said in the journal Science. "We feelRead more

A newly-discovered gecko uses a weird but ingenious tactic to evade capture: it strips down to its pink, naked skin and flees, leaving its attacker with a mouthful of scales, scientists have revealed. The hard, dense flakes come off with "exceptional ease" and grow back in a matter of weeks, a team of researchers reported in the journal PeerJ thisRead more

An astronomer from the University of Queensland (UoQ) was announced Thursday to have played a pivotal role in the discovery of a "middleweight" black hole in space, after a 40 year search. UoQ Associate Prof. Holger Baumgardt says the discovery would help astronomers to understand the creation of galaxies and how they evolve. According to Baumgardt, black holes are eitherRead more

It may not feel like it, but our Milky Way galaxy is barrelling through the Universe at more than two million kilometres (1.24 million miles) per hour. On Monday, astronomers said they had discovered a void in deep space that helps explain the direction in which we are headed, and our speed. It turns out our galaxy is not onlyRead more

Baboons make sounds that are similar to the vowels a,e,i,o and u, researchers said Wednesday, suggesting that some monkeys have had the physical capacity for language for millions of years. The findings in the journal PLOS ONE add a new dimension to the long-running debate over how language began and evolved, by showing that baboons possess a tongue and larynxRead more

A Saudi-British research team from the Excellence Center of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and Oxford University for joint petrochemicals research has discovered a new fast and safe way to convert heavy petroleum hydrocarbons to hydrogen gas in large quantities and at high speed using a catalyst to create a chemical reaction using a developed microwave reactor.Read more

South Korea has completed the construction of a nuclear research reactor in Jordan to operate its first home-grown nuclear plant in the Middle Eastern country, the South Korean government said Wednesday.  The South Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said a groundbreaking ceremony for Jordan Research and Training Reactor (JRTR) was held at Jordan University of Science andRead more