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Can Morocco Create a New Middle East through Green Energy?

By Moha Ennaji | ( Project Syndicate) | - - FEZ – The global oil-price bust has devastated economies across the Middle East and North Africa. Having seen severe price declines in…

Toward a New Islamic Golden Age through Science

By Nidhal Guessoum | (Project Syndicate) | - - SHARJAH – The Muslim world’s past contributions to science and education were extraordinary. The Islamic “golden age” – during which scholarship and learning…

8,000 Suddenly Dead Birds in Alaska; What does it Mean?

AJ+ | - - "The death of about 8,000 Alaskan birds might be due to unusually warm waters. “Seabirds are indicators of the health of the ecosystem. Now they’re dying, and that…

Top 5 Things for which We should be grateful to Arabic Writing

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - When a teacher in rural Augusta county, Virginia, decided to expose her students to the Arabic script (a piece of calligraphy writing out…

How SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Could Boost Commercial Space Travel

ABC News | (Video News Report) | - - "SpaceX founder Elon Musk says that the ability to reuse rockets, like its Falcon 9, will dramatically reduce future launch costs." ABC: "How…

Are Red Meat & Bacon As Cancer-Causing As Cigarettes and Plutonium?

By Nadia Prupis, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - Processed meats have been placed in the same health risk category as smoking and asbestos by the cancer research body of the…

How Syria is becoming a test bed for high-tech weapons of electronic warfare

David Stupples | (The Conversation) | - - The relationship between Russia and the West is becoming increasingly dangerous with potential flashpoints developing in both eastern Europe and Syria. After repeated incursions…

The Young Iraqis Promoting Darwinism and Rationalism To Save Iraq

Marwan Jabbar | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - One of the more unusual, grass roots groups in Iraq today is Real Sciences. They are young Iraqis who translate scientific articles into…

Multiple views of Meteor Explosion over Bangkok

Attila Nagy | (Video compilation) | - - "Several dashcams captured meteor entering Earth's atmosphere and exploding over Bangkok, on the 7th of September, 2015." Meteor over Bangkok, Thailand, 7 September 2015

Deep South, biggest Climate Deniers, will be among worst hit by Global Warming

Tan Copsy | ( Risky Business) | - - Atlanta, Georgia – The Southeastern United States and Texas are uniquely at risk from climate change, according to a new report by the…

How Dropping the A-Bomb on Japan initiated the Military-Industrial Complex

By Michael Hiltzik | (Author, Big Science) | - - This summer -- August 6 and 9, to be precise -- marks the 70th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and…

Ban Killer real-life Terminator Robots! So say Hawking, Wozniak, Musk, Chomsky

Ban real-life Terminator Robots! So say Hawking, Wozniak, Musk, Chomsky

Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak, Elon Musk, Noam Chomsky and dozens of others have signed an open letter at The Future of Life Institute urging that autonomous killer robots be banned before they're…

Climate Change Dunnit: The Case of the missing Woolly Mammoths

By Chris Turney and Alan Cooper | (The Conversation) | - - Imagine a world populated by woolly mammoths, giant sloths and car-sized armadillos – 50,000 years ago more than 150 types…

Science Reveals Pluto — (Why Can’t we Trust it on Climate Change)?

NASA | (Video Press Conference and Images) | - - "NASA officials and team members of the New Horizons mission to Pluto participate in a news conference featuring release of close-up images…

Humans Causing the Sixth Great Extinction of other Life Forms, on which we Depend

By Gerardo Ceballos | (The Conversation) | - - Vitus Bering, the famous explorer, led perhaps the most ambitious scientific expedition ever in the 1730s. Commanding 10,000 people, he was in charge…

How the Jurassic Park Franchise changed the real world of Science

How the Jurassic Park Franchise changed the real world of ancient DNA Research

By Elizabeth Jones | (The Conversation) | - - The park is almost open. Two decades on and Jurassic Park has morphed into Jurassic World, the one and only dinosaur theme park.…

Obama: Climate change deniers endanger national security

WTNH News8 | (Video) - "President Barack Obama says climate change deniers are endangering national security." WTNH News8 "Obama: Climate change deniers endanger national security"

Global Connections: World History as Social History – a New Synthesis

I and colleagues have just brought out a world history. Because of the fine and exciting writing of my co-authors, it is more than just a textbook. My readers often ask me…

Australia’s new Super Solar Cells Double Efficiency

Graham Philips | (ABCTVCatalyst) | - "Australian scientists from the University of New South Wales have set a new world record for the efficiency of commercially-viable solar cells. Dr Graham Phillips investigates…

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has an Ocean, Geysers and maybe Life

By Andrew Coates | (The Conversation) The Cassini mission that has investigated Saturn since 2004 has revealed much about the giant planet and its many moons. Perhaps most tantalising is the discovery…