In the next few weeks, a flotilla of probes will be blasted into space from launch pads round the world and propelled towards one of the solar system’s most mysterious objects: the planet Mars. Within days of each other, spacecraft built by the USA, by China and by the United Arab ... Read More »
Astronomers have spotted strange circular objects, deep in space, through telescopes. The objects “do not seem to correspond to any known type of object”, report the scientists who find them, who do not have any definitive explanation of how they may have formed. So far, four of the objects have ... Read More »
Scientists have found a strange “pulsar” deep in space that could solve some of the universe’s most fundamental mysteries. The discovery could help us understand how dead stars collide and the universe’s expansion, according to the researchers who found it. The pulsar – a neutron star “lighthouse” deep in space ... Read More »
UK neurologists publish details of mildly affected or recovering Covid-19 patients with serious or potentially fatal brain conditions Doctors may be missing signs of serious and potentially fatal brain disorders triggered by coronavirus, as they emerge in mildly affected or recovering patients, scientists have warned. Neurologists are on Wednesday publishing ... Read More »
Private On Monday, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that international students will not be allowed to stay in the United States if the universities they attend exclusively hold online classes due to the Covid-19 pandemic. International students were given two options: transfer to universities giving in-person or ... Read More »
Private During a one-hour speech at a think tank in Washington on Tuesday, FBI chief Christopher Wray threw some of the agency’s harshest accusations about China’s threat to the US. He said that acts of theft and espionage by China’s government represent the “greatest long-term threat to our nation’s information ... Read More »
Gérard Karsenty was a young scientist trying to make a name for himself in the early 1990s when he first stumbled upon a finding that would go on to transform our understanding of bone, and the role it plays in our body. Karsenty had become interested in osteocalcin, one of ... Read More »
The World Health Organization has acknowledged new evidence that the coronavirus spreads more widely in the air than it had previously suggested, as the Trump administration gave official notification of its withdrawal from the group. A day after a group of scientists said the global body was underplaying the risk of airborne transmission between ... Read More »
Private For more than a decade, the US and EU have accused each other of supporting their home aviation markets with research grants, tax breaks, and other aid. In March 2020, the dispute escalated with Washington imposing higher tariffs up to 15% on European airlines “Airbus” and airplane parts imported ... Read More »
Private According to the authors of a UN report, without proper action to protect wildlife, the number of “zoonotic” diseases which jump from animals to humans, will rise in coming years. Zoonotic diseases like Covid-19, Ebola, SARS, and West Nile virus are caused by the high demand for animal protein ... Read More »
Lebanese Ministry of Information