Science And Religion: Where The Magisteria Overlap

Science is far more entangled with a humanistic or theological vision than we might expect, writes Harvard University’s Owen Gingerich in his new book, God’s…

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Science and Islam in Conflict

In many Muslim countries, science must obey the Koran.

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Science and the Islamic world – The quest for rapprochement

Internal causes led to the decline of Islam’s scientific greatness long before the era of mercantile imperialism. To contribute once again, Muslims must be introspective…

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Muslim Nobel Laureate Says Islam not against Science

A famed Egyptian-born scientist has challenged journalists in the Arab world to dispel what he called a widespread and biased idea that Islam is anti-science….

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Depression is not a sign of weakness

Efforts have recently been made to increase awareness regarding depression and suicide in Saudi Arabia. Nawal Al-Hawsawi, a counseling psychologist, arranged a Twitter conference last…

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The ‘first true scientist’

By Professor Jim Al-Khalili University of Surrey Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time. At the very least, he…

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Islam & Science International Summer School 2014 in Paris

How to reconcile Islamic faith and practice with contemporary scientific knowledge, i.e. with modernity?

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Main objective behind UAE’s Mars mission

I believe this initiative is not about the destination, Mars, but rather about the journey, the development of science, technology and education in the region

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Hello aliens; anybody there?

Contrary to what sci-fi movies tend to imply, we must always keep in mind that aliens, if they exist anywhere, may not resemble us, in form, technology or philosophy

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CMS detector … A more closer look

All of us may heard about the Large Hadron Collider, the big tunnel machine at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and its detectors like…

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The search for other ‘earths’ heats up

If we do find even primitive life in one of our neighbouring star-planet systems, then the Milky Way must statistically be full of life — some of it probably quite advanced elsewhere

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UAE to send first Arab spaceship to Mars by 2021

New space agency created with target of journeying to Red Planet

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