Meeting the Quranic Adam with Charles Darwin
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Acting on a tip from explorer of caves four years ago, scientists in South Africa discovered what […]
12 Grand challenges that matter in 2017
Source: BBC HOW CAN WE AVOID RESISTANCE TO ANTIBIOTICS? Grand Challenges Future Now asked 50 experts – scientists, technologists, business leaders and entrepreneurs – to name what they saw as […]
David Attenborough’s Rise of Animals: Triumph of the Vertebrates
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The tricks that help some animals live for centuries
Source: BBC By Nic Fleming 31 March 2017 Dirty beige with grey-brown stain-like patches, Ming the clam was not much to look at. It did at least get a name, […]
World’s biggest dinosaur footprint found in ‘Australia’s Jurassic Park
Source: CNN By Joshua Berlinger (CNN) The world’s biggest dinosaur footprint has been discovered in northwestern Australia, measuring at nearly 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 meters), the lead author of […]
Scientists Can Reverse DNA Aging in Mice
Source: Time BY Alice Park Mar 23, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Researchers have found a way to protect a mouse’s DNA from the damage that comes with […]
Drug ‘reverses’ ageing in animal tests
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES A drug that can reverse aspects of ageing has been successfully trialled in animals, say […]
The microbes in your body that you could not live without
Source: BBC By Adam Rutherford 22 March 2017 It began with what can only be described as an ingenious invention. It’s a fold-out sheet, with sticky tabs at the front […]
A New Form of Stem-Cell Engineering Raises Ethical Questions
Source: The New York Times By Carl Zimmer As biological research races forward, ethical quandaries are piling up. In a report published Tuesday in the journal eLife, researchers at Harvard Medical […]
Gene Editing: Promise & Peril
Source: Common Weal Magazine By Gilbert Meilaender March 13, 2017 Several of my children, in the summer before they began kindergarten, participated in a program called “safety city.” Among the […]
Muslim History of the Theory of Evolution: A Challenge to Traditional Adam Story
Source: New Age Islam By T.O. Shanavas, New Age Islam 12 November 2015 According to the theory of evolution, all living beings share a common ancestry, and therefore they are […]
Two Words for the Christian Apologist Ravi Zacharias: Biological Evolution
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Suffering and the question of suffering is our shared destiny. Today millions are homeless in different parts […]
Mammoths Won’t be Back ‘In Two Years’
Source: BBC By Helen Pilcher Woolly mammoths are in the news again. According to recent news reports, they are “on the verge of resurrection” and “will be back from extinction […]
Blue Planet 2: BBC announce new series with Sir David Attenborough
Source: Independent and Youtube By Jack Shepherd @JackJShepherd Last year, the BBC aired Planet Earth II, a sequel to the highly successful documentary series of the same name, narrated by […]
Human Gene Editing Receives Science Panel’s Support
Source: The New York Times By AMY HARMON An influential science advisory group formed by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine on Tuesday lent its […]
For Darwin Day, 6 facts about the evolution debate
Source: Pew Research Center BY DAVID MASCI Sunday is the 208th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, a day now celebrated by some as Darwin Day. Darwin, of course, is best […]
Darwin’s Birthday Today: His Work An Epiphany for the Muslims, A Catastrophe for the Christians
Charles Darwin: An Epiphany for the Muslims, A Catastrophe for the Christians Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The National Museum of […]
The hidden body signals that could change your behaviour
Source: BBC By Tiffanie Wen 10 February 2017 “Gently close your eyes. Listen to the soundscape you’re now in. As you focus your awareness on different parts of your body, […]
Bangladesh to plant trees to reduce lightning-related death toll
Source: Source: Xinhua DHAKA, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) — Lightning has become a natural disaster in Bangladesh because official statistics show that bolts caused over 200 deaths in 2016 in the […]
The tree that shaped human hisory
Source: BBC By Mike Shanahan 17 January 2017 Over 2,000 years ago, an important tree had one of its branches removed on the order of Indian emperor Ashoka the Great. […]