Bioengineers have designed a glove that is able to translate American Sign Language to speech in real time. The glove has thin, stretchable sensors inside which run to the fingertips. These sensors are able to pick up and motions and finger placement through electrically conducting yarns. Those sensors are then connected to ...

Advisor to the president of the Arab Volunteer Union in Bahrain, Charbel Qabalan, visited on Thursday Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, at her ministry office, and presented her with an invitation to partake in the Union’s Arab Campaign for Environmental Development. Qabalan, who also chairs the Noble Order of ...

Minister of Information Manal Abdel Samad said on Thursday that the Cabinet session chaired by Prime Minister Hassan Diab listened to the explanation given by the Minister of Energy on the causes of power outages and the late arrival of the fuel ships. On another note, Abdel Samad also announced ...

Private Yemen is a country that endured years of raging civil wars, Cholera and extreme poverty. As the coronavirus started spreading across the country, the city of Aden recorded 950 deaths in the first two weeks of May, which represents almost half the number of casualties the city suffered in ...

Covid-19 immunity levels in the public could be as high as 30 per cent, according to a new international study. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden found that people with mild or no symptoms had developed “T-cell” immunity — despite testing negative for antibodies that fight the novel disease.  T-cells are a type ...

Investors are right to ignore rising coronavirus cases at the moment, according to experts   Investors should look past the alarming number of new coronavirus cases in America and stay invested in the stock market, fund managers are advising. While they concede there is a risk of another stock market crash, ...

Mohamad barely looks surprised when his phone vibrates with an update on the devaluation of the Lebanese pound. “Great, now my salary is worth $60,” the 30-year-old Syrian economics teacher turned refugee said, shaking his head. In the past week alone, the Lebanese pound has lost over 40 per cent ...

Nice says topic is under review, but still advises taking supplements for bone health   No evidence exists to support taking vitamin D supplements to prevent Covid-19, UK public health experts have found. A rapid review of evidence for claims that the so-called sunshine vitamin could reduce the risk of coronavirus was ...

Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, received at the ministry a delegation of the Palestinian media community in Lebanon, who briefed her on the goals of the newly-founded community, within the framework of achieving an independent Palestinian media. Discussions touched on organizing the work of Palestinian media professionals in Lebanon ...

Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, clarified in an interview with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation this evening, that she had contacted Prime Minister, Dr. Hassan Diab, who denied providing “any official apology by the Lebanese government to American Ambassador Dorothy Shea,” adding that “it is up to Ambassador ...