Understanding the laws of physics can often help us get closer to the secrets behind a world record or a gold medal haul In a…

Be it Higgs Boson or Mars, smart communication makes complex theories fascinating In the past month, two major scientific events captured the public’s mind and…

An average individual today receives in one hour the amount of data that a 17th-century person received in a lifetime Is the flood of information…

Books are losing out to smartphones, internet and television in the arab world Last December, we Arabs were shocked to hear that we (on average)…

Obama and romney show marked ideological and agenda differences on subject The US presidential election has heated up with three debates between Barack Obama and…

The Mayan doomsday story is not only wrong, but culturally dangerous If you are reading this today (Friday, Dec. 21, 2012), then obviously the world…

People should be made aware of the fallacies of irrational beliefs Barely have we buried the doomsday global scare that we’ve run into another irrational…

Let there be no reasoning errors and biases in judging nature’s wrath and dealing with them On February 15, one asteroid zipped past Earth at…

people need opportunities for professional, financial and personal development Last month, an intriguing piece of news came up on my screen: A group of US…

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Progress in artificial intelligence is driving robots to a new level of intelligence and sophistication Last week, a video of a robot trying to stop…

Apart from concentrating on earthquake engineering and human readiness, there isn’t much we can do right now When earthquake struck on April 16, I was…