While 2014 is already a bad year — with over 500 deaths recorded so far — the period from April to June 2013 saw zero fatal accidents involving commercial flights

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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With a surfeit of information available at our fingertips through the internet, it is necessary to raise the alarm for youngsters to be very careful about how they use material that can easily be obtained online

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Emergence of a large number of female students in Arab-Gulf universities is indicative of a trend that is breaking away from age-old stereotypes When I…

The American company has so much investment and infrastructure that it will soon be impossible for even big governments to challenge it I was an…

The telescope, that allows us to see far in space and thus back in time, giving us an unprecedented understanding of our own existence, is…