Source: The Huffington Post By David Freeman It’s easy to shine light through a crystal, but researchers at Princeton University are turning light into crystals–essentially creating “solid light.” “It’s something […]
Source: The Huffington Post By David Freeman It’s easy to shine light through a crystal, but researchers at Princeton University are turning light into crystals–essentially creating “solid light.” “It’s something […]
Source: RT US space tourism firm Space Adventures is offering a spaceflight around the moon to private tourists on “proven” Russian Soyuz spacecraft – saying that the sponsors will not […]
Religious faith remains by far the best predictor of a long and healthy life. Source: The Telegraph By James LeFanu It is encouraging for those reluctant or unable to engage […]
In an experiment on fruit flies, UCLA biologists activated just one gene, AMPK, which extended their lifespan by nearly a third, by helping them to get rid of “cellular garbage” […]
Religion, it appears, isn’t helping science. That’s the findings of new research by Princeton economist Roland Benabou and his two co-workers, which found that countries with a higher number of […]
Study: Science and religion are not only incompatible, religious areas being left behind Science and religion just don’t co-exist, according to a recent study by economists at Princeton University. “Places […]
You probably already knew that Islam was having a scientific golden age during Europe’s middle ages, and making tons of scientific and medical discoveries. (Which is why we use words like “algebra.”) But you might not know that some of the earliest proto-science fiction came from the Islamic world. READ […]
National Geographic: Tales of the Dead Come Back: How Modern Medicine Is Reinventing Death They can fly through walls or circle the planets, turn into pure light or meet long-dead […]
Gene study makes epilepsy cure breakthrough For decades researchers have been trying to pinpoint the genetic causes of epilepsy. Now a study involving 8,000 patients world-wide has made real progress. […]
Source: Science 20 Though to Western women, Muslim women in the Mid-East and Asia seem oppressed because they have no choice in wearing a hijab, the Islamic head- and body-cover […]
The brain can be trained to prefer healthy food over unhealthy high-calorie foods, using a diet which does not leave people hungry, suggests a study from the US. Scientists from Tufts University say food addictions can be changed in this way even if they are well-established. They scanned the addiction […]
The brain can be trained to prefer healthy food over unhealthy high-calorie foods, using a diet which does not leave people hungry, suggests a study from the US. Scientists from Tufts University say food addictions can be changed in this way even if they are well-established. They scanned the addiction […]
Studies show that waiting for things makes us happier According to new studies published in the journal Psychological Science, the secret to happiness is waiting for the thing or item […]
News24: It is said that there are 6909 different languages including dialects. Apparently over 2000 of these languages are spoken by less than 1000 people. Hundreds of languages are disappearing […]
Source: Guardian UK China is planning its own desktop and mobile software to oust imported rivals from Microsoft, Apple and Google. The unnamed desktop version is due for release in […]
Source: The Atlantic In early April, as the first reports of Ebola began to emerge from Western Guinea, I was invited to attend the first meeting of the Kono District Ebola Response Task Force. Kono is a remote and impoverished diamond-mining district in Sierra Leone, bordering the then-epicenter of […]
Source: Daily Observer The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association in the United Kingdom has donated two checks totaling ten thousand British Pounds (£10,000.00) to assist the Liberian Government in its fight against […]
Onislam.net What can we do to practice the Law of Abundance? Remind ourselves that the poor have rights upon us: It goes without saying that the poor have immaculate rights […]
Source: BBC News The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is spreading faster than efforts to control it, World Health Organization (WHO) head Margaret Chan has said. She told a summit of regional leaders that failure to contain Ebola could be “catastrophic” in terms of lives lost. But she said […]