UK to launch ‘high risk’ science agency
By Tom EspinerBusiness reporter, BBC News The UK is to launch a “high-risk” science agency to look for ground-breaking discoveries. The agency, Aria, will be run along the lines of […]
Feats of two Saudis offer glimpse of Arab region’s female science talent
Short Url https://arab.news/jvpqt Asrar Damdam and Lama Al-Abdi honored by L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science Middle East Regional Young Talents Program In spite of recent progress, women remain a minority […]
Artificial intelligence helps bring about record-fast vaccines
The function of a protein is determined by its 3D shape. Laguna Design/Science Photo Library The rapid development of two highly effective Covid-19 vaccines was made possible through AI technology […]
Nuro set to be California’s first driverless delivery service
Source: BBC California has given the go-ahead for a commercial driverless delivery service for the first time. Robotics start-up Nuro plans to start its driverless delivery operations as early as […]
Chinese claim to have built a quantum computer 100 trillion times faster than the world’s most advanced supercomputer
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Chinese Scientists Claim Breakthrough in Quantum Computing Race Source: Bloomberg By Shiyin Chen, December 3, 2020, […]
China Wants to Be the World’s EV Factory. It May Succeed.
Source: WSJ By Jacky Wong China may be the world’s factory, but it has never been a big exporter of automobiles. It hopes to change that with electric vehicles. And things […]
Turkey Unveils Next Generation Flying Car Named After 12th-Century Inventor
Source: Daily Sabah A prototype of Turkey’s first domestic flying car, called the “Cezeri,” is nearing completion, Baykar Technical Director Selçuk Bayraktar announced Tuesday. Bayraktar – who is also the […]
Zoom Crash Leaves Students, Businesses Scrambling on Crucial Day
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page Source: Bloomberg A Zoom Video Communications Inc. outage Monday ground some work meetings and online […]
Iter: World’s largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
Source: BBC By Paul Rincon; Science editor, BBC News website The world’s biggest nuclear fusion project has entered its five-year assembly phase. After this is finished, the facility will be […]
Didi Chuxing: Apple-backed firm aims for one million robotaxis
Source: BBC Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing says it plans to operate more than a million self-driving vehicles by 2030. The robotaxis are to be deployed in places where ride-hailing drivers are less available, according to Meng Xing, Didi’s chief operating officer. Mr Meng was speaking at an online conference […]
Shopify Teams Up With Blackberry On Canadian Covid-19 App
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like the saving of the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: Yahoo Finance Canadian Prime Minister Justin […]
A Million-Mile Battery From China Could Power Your Electric Car
Source: Bloomberg The Chinese behemoth that makes electric-car batteries for Tesla Inc. and Volkswagen AG developed a power pack that lasts more than a million miles — an industry landmark and a potential boon […]
Science, statistics and society – The story of a modern coup d’état
Source: Al Hakam By Asif M Basit In the last few weeks – now slowly turning into months – everyone around the world has had a set of words and […]
Why Religion Is Not Going Away and Science Will Not Destroy It
Source: Aeon Social scientists predicted that belief in the supernatural would drift away as modern science advanced. They were wrong. By Peter Harrison, who is an Australian Laureate Fellow and […]
Video: Noam Chomsky speaks about Universal Linguistics: Origins of Language
Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political commentator, social justice activist, and anarcho-syndicalist advocate. Sometimes described as the “father of modern linguistics”, Chomsky is also a major […]
Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One: A Robot and a Team of Irish Scientists Walk Into a Senior Living Home
Source: Time By Corinne Purtill It’s karaoke-rehearsal time at Knollwood Military Retirement Community, a 300-bed facility tucked away in a leafy corner of northwest Washington, D.C. Knollwood resident and retired U.S. […]
There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Gay Gene,’ a New Study Argues
Source: Time BY JAMIE DUCHARME In 1993, researchers discovered a stretch of DNA on the X chromosome they believed to be linked to male homosexuality. In the years since, the concept of a […]
The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront
The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront Source: The Washington Post China’s formidable investment in quantum technology, which could transform information processing and confer big […]
Video: 5G self-driving buses, without driver seat, hit the road in Zhengzhou, China
BEIJING — Buses circling a 1.53 km route in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou are offering a sneak peek at what the combination of 5G telecommunications and self-driving technology is […]
Japan tests world’s fastest bullet train
CNN — Japan has started testing its fastest-ever bullet train — capable of reaching 400 kilometers per hour (249 mph) — as it continues to develop the revolutionary mode of […]
