The ride of your life: A one-way ticket to Mars

The perils notwithstanding, several thousands are keen on signing up for the project When the Mars One project announced that it planned to enlist volunteers…

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Dangers to Earth must be considered rationally

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…

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Urdu floating at the edge of our Solar System

Assalam alaikum. Hum zameen kay rehnay waalon kee taraf say aap ko khush amdaid kehtay hain (Peace be upon you. We the inhabitants of this…

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Utilitarian Approach To Science Is Killing Arab Astronomy

A professor of physics and astronomy at the American University of Sharjah, Nidhal Guessoum writes in the latest issue of Nature, that the utilitarian approach…

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