Life & Style
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Health
6/16/2023 2:52:37 PM
Roger Payne, the scientist who spurred a worldwide environmental conservation movement with his discovery that whales could sing, has died. He was 88.
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World
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International
6/8/2023 12:10:20 PM
Record-high greenhouse gas emissions and diminishing air pollution have caused an unparalleled acceleration in global warming, 50 top scientists warned Thursday in a sweeping climate science update.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
5/30/2023 10:40:54 PM
The British forensic scientist Sir Sydney Smith spent much of his career in Egypt and recorded his impressions in a set of revealing memoirs, writes David Tresilian in an occasional series on books by visitors to Egypt
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Life & Style
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Health
5/11/2023 11:27:01 AM
Scientists unveiled the first draft of a human 'pangenome', a more diverse and accurate DNA blueprint for our species that they hope will help shed light on a range of diseases.
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Life & Style
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Health
5/7/2023 11:42:47 AM
Scientists said they have found a way to use brain scans and artificial intelligence modeling to transcribe "the gist" of what people are thinking, in what was described as a step toward mind reading.
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World
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Africa
4/27/2023 9:29:11 AM
A devastating drought that has struck the Horn of Africa could not have occurred without global warming, according to a new report released Thursday from an international team of climate scientists.
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World
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International
3/27/2023 11:29:58 PM
Scientists have discovered a new and renewable source of water on the moon for future explorers in lunar samples from a Chinese mission.
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Life & Style
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Health
3/19/2023 11:15:56 AM
For the first time, scientists have created baby mice from two males.
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World
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International
3/13/2023 9:37:05 AM
Diplomats from nearly 200 nations and top climate scientists begin a week-long huddle in Switzerland Monday to distill nearly a decade of published science into a 20-odd-page warning about the existential danger of global warming, and what to do about it.
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World
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International
3/9/2023 9:07:06 PM
With his moustache caked in icicles and frozen droplets, glaciologist Peter Neff shows his 220,000 TikTok followers a sample of old ice excavated from Antarctica's Allan Hills.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
2/17/2023 10:25:41 PM
Polymath scientist Rushdi Said provided many insights into Egypt’s present problems and future prospects, writes Tarek Osman in his series of articles on the makers of modern Egyptian culture
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World
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Africa
1/22/2023 9:30:30 PM
As Nigerians inch closer to the February 2023 presidential election, the seventh since the current wave of liberal democracy formally started in 1999, there are at least 10 key issues that are likely to drive and determine the outcome. Political scientist, Jideofor Adibe, explores them all.
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World
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International
1/11/2023 3:08:47 PM
The world's oceans, which have absorbed most of the excess heat caused by humanity's carbon pollution, continued to see record-breaking temperatures last year, according to research published Wednesday.
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World
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International
1/5/2023 9:36:57 PM
The world’s glaciers are shrinking and disappearing faster than scientists thought, with two-thirds of them projected to melt out of existence by the end of the century at current climate change trends, according to a new study.
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Life & Style
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Health
12/27/2022 2:16:58 PM
Nearly three years into the pandemic, scientists are still trying to figure out why some people get long COVID and why a small portion have lasting symptoms.
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COP27
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Focus
11/17/2022 10:39:22 AM
Below the turquoise waters off the coast of Australia is one of the world's natural wonders, an underwater rainbow jungle teeming with life that scientists say is showing some of the clearest signs yet of climate change.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
11/15/2022 5:55:03 PM
Google search engine celebrated the late Hamed Gohar's 115th birth anniversary on 15 November with a Google Doodle
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Life & Style
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Health
11/5/2022 12:26:10 PM
For years, scientists have been looking ever more seriously at the therapeutic effect of psychedelics, which are not legal under US federal law. However, despite this renewed interest, large-scale studies are still lacking.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/16/2022 12:12:08 PM
Scientists have transplanted human brain cells into the brains of baby rats, where the cells grew and formed connections.
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World
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International
10/4/2022 4:39:15 PM
Three scientists jointly won this year's Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their work on quantum information science that has significant applications, for example in the field of encryption.
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