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…
Science And Religion: Where The Magisteria Overlap
Science and Islam in Conflict
In many Muslim countries, science must obey the Koran.
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…
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….
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…
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…
Islam & Science International Summer School 2014 in Paris
How to reconcile Islamic faith and practice with contemporary scientific knowledge, i.e. with modernity?
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
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
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…
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
UAE to send first Arab spaceship to Mars by 2021
New space agency created with target of journeying to Red Planet