The Myth of the Muslim World
Source: The chronicle of Higher education By Asma Afsaruddin MAY 14, 2017 In his influential History of the Saracen Empires, the early-18th-century British scholar Simon Ockley remarks benignly about Islam […]
Unprecedented cyber attacks wreak global havoc
By AFP – May 13,2017 – JORDAN TIMES In this posed photo, a woman points to the website of the NHS: East and North Hertfordshire notifying users of a […]
Buddhism, Science And The Western World
Source: NPR BY ADAM FRANK When discussions about science and religion turn into debates about science versus religion, Buddhism mostly gets a pass. Thanks to the work of the Dalai Lama […]
Why be conscious: The improbable origins of our unique mind
http://www.newscientist.com: YOU know that you are conscious. Hopefully, you believe me when I tell you that I am, too. But is your pet dog or cat conscious? What about a tool-making crow, or a “clairvoyant” octopus or a worm? You might think it is impossible to find out. There is […]
TIME TRAVEL IS MATHEMATICALLY POSSIBLE WITH NEW MIND-BOGGLING MODEL
BY HANNAH OSBORNE ON 5/2/17 What Are Gravitational Waves? Updated | Many have dreamed of figuring out how to travel in time—and dismissed it as impossible. Now, researchers have proposed a mathematical model that makes time travel possible, using concepts of Einstein’s theory of general relativity coupled with the hypothesis that […]
Are the Scientists the Better Teachers for Several of the Attributes of God?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Charles Darwin did not make my list of heroes until after I was forty years old. Part […]
Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi the Great Surgeon
by: Ibrahim Shaikh Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi (936-1013 CE), also known in the West as Albucasis, was an Andalusian physician. He is considered as the greatest surgeon in […]
Being Socially Awkward Is Actually Awesome, According to Science
Source: Time BY Ty Tashiro When I think back to the Bumper Boat Debacle of 1984, I can see the trappings of an awkward moment: I was in middle school; there […]
Why Native Americans do not separate religion from science
Source: The Conversation BY Rosalyn R. LaPier Research Associate of Women’s Studies, Environmental Studies and Native American Religion, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University Last year five Native American tribes in Washington […]
‘It’s About Facts.’ Thousands Protest and Make Friends in the Rain at the March for Science
Source: Time BY Haley Sweetland Edwards When Dennis and Christina Dorward awoke to their alarm at 3 a.m. on Saturday morning, there wasn’t a question of whether they would get out […]
Mapping the future of AI
Apr 03,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Margaret A. Boden Artificial intelligence (AI) already plays a major role in human economies and societies, and it will play an even bigger role in the coming years. To ponder the future of AI is thus to acknowledge that the future is AI. This will […]
Plants know if you are eating them
by Bridie Pearson-Jones in discover Picture: SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Feeling smug about your vegan lifestyle? This will give you pause for thought. Research from the University of Missouri has shown that plants can sense when they’re going to be eaten – and they don’t like it. https://player.vimeo.com/video/99635253 The study […]
Islamic Foreshadowing of Evolution
Paul S. Braterman …in this article, I will summarise the key elements of the modern science of evolution, and the reasons why the evidence in its favour is generally regarded among scientists as conclusive, before turning to my main theme, which is the extent to which Muslim scholars anticipated key […]
Why we do not know what the Big Bang looked like
Source: BBC Science writer and astrophysicist Adam Becker explains why we cannot see the Big Bang to BBC Earth’s Michael Marshall and Melissa Hogenboom, with help from the animators at Pomona […]
The fact the sky is dark reveals a lot about the Universe
Source: BBC It may seem utterly obvious that the sky is dark, but in fact it seems to give rise to a peculiar paradox about the cosmos Science writer and […]
Quantum Theory Proves Consciousness Moves To Another Universe After Death
A book titled “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe” has stirred up the Internet, because it contained a notion that life does not end when the body dies, and it can last forever. The author of this publication, scientist Dr. Robert […]
Jim Al-Khalili – Lessons from the past: science and rationalism in medieval Islam
British Humanist Association (BHA) President, physicist and broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalili gave the 2014 Voltaire Lecture at Conway Hall, London, on the theme of ‘Lessons from the past: science and […]
Male contraceptive gel effective in monkeys, but will it work in humans?
Source: CNN “What was important here was that this worked and was safe in animals similar to humans,” said Elaine Lissner, executive director of the Parsemus Foundation, the medical research organization behind Vasalgel that is also leading the trials. A new study, published Tuesday, involved 16 male monkeys receiving injections […]
Abdus Salam: the real story of Pakistan’s Nobel prize winner
HASHAM CHEEMA A star is born Abdus Salam’s birth certificate. Source – ICTP Photo Library On the 29th of January 1926, Chaudhry Muhammad Hussein and Bibi Hajira Hussien had a baby boy at their two-bedroom abode in Jhang. They named him Abdus Salam; ‘servant of peace’. “I was born in […]
Cooper Hewitt to Present “Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection”
Exhibition on View April 7 Through Aug. 27 January 25, 2017 “Jeweled Splendors of the Art Deco Era: The Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan Collection” at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will feature more than 100 extraordinary examples of luxury cigarette and vanity cases, compacts, clocks and other […]