Source / Credit: BBC Chinese solar power pioneer Huang Ming is one of four winners of the 2011 Right Livelihood Awards, sometimes also called the alternative Nobel prize. Mr Huang was honoured for developing “cutting-edge technologies for harnessing solar energy”. Also honoured were Chadian human rights activist Jacqueline Moudeina, […]
By Zia H Shah Let me lay down a few quick facts about the Bible in the very beginning. The Sheperd of Hemas was part of the canon for centuries and now it is not. The Shepherd of Hermas (Greek: Ποιμήν του Ερμά; Hebrew: רועה הרמס; sometimes just called The Shepherd) is a […]
BOSTON — A team of Japanese scientists who invented a fire alarm that smells like wasabi were among the winners of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes that were handed out for head-scratching scientific discoveries Thursday at Harvard University. The Japanese team won the chemistry prize for the alarm that emits […]
The mother of a passenger aboard a plane that crashed in a remote area of Indonesia says her daughter has called her, raising hopes of finding survivors as rescuers struggled to reach the site. Search and rescue teams had been unable to reach the accident site in a mountainous area […]
Source: The Local A Hannover microbiologist and fashion designer is releasing a new clothing line with a twist: the clothes are partly created from powdered milk – aiding skincare. “The proteins in the powder care for the skin,” said 28-year-old Anke Domaske, who has founded the QMilch line, explaining […]
Source: Physics World Can particles travel faster than the speed of light? Most physicists would say an emphatic “no”, invoking Einstein’s special theory of relativity, which forbids superluminal travel. But now physicists working on the OPERA experiment in Italy may have found tantalizing evidence that neutrinos can exceed the speed […]
Source: Qantara The women of Saudi Arabia will be allowed to vote for the first time in 2015. Why not already today in the current local elections? Abdelmoula Boukhraiss discussed this topic with the well-known Saudi Arabian civil rights activist and journalist Abdul Aziz Al-Khamis in London Why aren’t […]
Source/Credit: /29 September 2011/ Translation by Google After a long time patiently waiting for the operating permit is ready for the official opening of Baitun Nasr Mosque in Furuset in Oslo. It should have happened a year ago, but Friday is the last. The mosque is not only just the latest addition […]