Source: Time Tech giant Google has asked the U.S. Department of Justice for permission to publish the number of national-security information requests it receives from the government, including requests made […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s comment: We have modified the original title. What would big data think of Einstein? Source: BBC By Sydney Finkelstein: Professor of strategy and leadership, and Dean for Executive […]
theguardian: by Michele Catanzaro. There is much evidence that public views on nanotechnology will be shaped by religious beliefs. If synthetic bacon has never been part of a living pig. Is it still forbidden under Islam’s halal laws? In the science fiction short story Halo, a panel of Muslim scholars discuss a […]
Source: BBC Google, Facebook and Microsoft have asked the US government to allow them to disclose the security requests they receive for handing over user data. The move comes after […]
Source: The daily Beast: It might seem improbable that ancient stories could teach us about modern problems like global warming. But contemporary schemes to arrest global warming by geoengineering the earth’s atmosphere often contain echoes of classical myth. First there’s Phaëton, who drives the sun’s chariot across the sky for one day, loses […]
Source: TheLocal You might say he is just a collection of atoms, but then, really, aren’t we all? The Local’s German of the Week is Boy, from the world’s smallest stop-motion film, made with individual atoms moved by a German-led research team. The video A Boy and His […]
Source: China Daily SHENYANG – A robot industrial base with an estimated annual output of 50 billion yuan (8 billion U.S. dollars) will be established in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, […]
Source:The Economist: A surprising new way to kill tumours: PANCREATIC cancer is a dreadful disease. Even in rich countries, only about 4% of those diagnosed with it are still alive after five years. In America it is the third-most-common cause of cancer deaths among women, after lung and breast cancer; […]
The Telegrapgh: by Victoria Ward Children as young as four are becoming so addicted to smartphones and iPads that they require psychological treatment. Parents who have found themselves unable to wean their children off computer games and mobile phones are paying up to £16,000 for a 28-day “digital detox” programme […]
April 19, 2013 The University of Lausanne has carried out a new kind of experiment aimed at better understanding ants’ behaviour. Barcodes glued on each individual enable researchers to monitor […]
By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times April 15, 2013, 11:16 p.m. Researchers say the foreskin can shelter troublesome bacteria, so its removal may bolster the immune system to keep the […]
Really cool series. . . BBC documentary – Science and Islam: The Language of Science (part 1) ————————————————————— BBC documentary – Science and Islam: The Empire of Reason (part 2) ——————————————————————- BBC documentary – Science and Islam: The Power of Doubt (part 3)
by Harun Yahya HUFFINGTON POST The word Islam conjures up a disturbing picture in the minds of some people outside the Muslim world. It is a fact that many in the West imagine Islam to be a faith far removed from modern life, closed to science and that attaches no […]
Cnbc: It sounds like something straight out of science fiction, but someday you may be able to access your computer just by thinking. (Read More: Goodbye Apple iPhone? Wearable Tech Is Coming ) Researchers at the UC Berkeley School of Information claim that computer brainwave-based authentication is an effective and secure substitution for […]
Source: The Economist: IN “TIME’S Arrow”, a novel by Martin Amis, the protagonist experiences time backwards. Eating involves regurgitating food into his mouth, sculpting the mush with his tongue, packaging it up and selling it to a grocery store. The passage on defecation is best left undescribed. Such a comic […]
Source: Spiegel. Ethical worries have slowed medical research into applications for stem cells. But scientists like Robert Lanza have developed less controversial ways to derive stem cells from normal body cells rather than embryos and are already launching the first clinical trials. More:
April 3, 2013 – 20:11 A mystery which has been puzzling space scientists for more than 80 years may be on the verge of an explanation, thanks to the $2 […]
Many of us fear death. We believe in death because we have been told we will die. We associate ourselves with the body, and we know that bodies die. But a new scientific theory suggests that death is not the terminal event we think. by Robert Lanza, MD CHIEF SCIENTIFIC […]
Mar 30, 2013 – 10:44 Switzerland is the most innovative country in Europe, comfortably ahead of second-placed Sweden, according to an annual study by the European Union. The Innovation Union […]