AFP Lush green fields blanket northern Egypt’s Nile Delta, but the country’s agricultural heartland and its vital freshwater resources are under threat from a warming climate. The fertile arc-shaped basin is home to nearly half the country’s population, and the river that feeds it provides Egypt with 90 percent of its water needs. But climbing…
Tech Explorist Helium is the second most plentiful component in the Universe. Anticipated since 2000 as extraordinary compared to other conceivable tracers of the climates of exoplanets, these planets circling around different stars than the Sun. It took astronomers 18 years to really distinguish it. It was difficult to spot due to the exceptionally particular…
Science Alert If someone showed you the above picture without context, you’d probably think it was an intact blood vessel. Readers, it is not. It is a perfect cast of the branching air passages in the right lung of a man dying of heart failure, formed from coagulated blood that had been accumulating therein. The…
NDTV A picture of a diamond-encrusted Emirates airplane left netizens puzzled after it was tweeted by the airline’s official Twitter handle on Tuesday. The blinding pic shows an airplane bedazzled with thousands of diamonds, and it left many wondering whether it was real or not. “Are you playing with physics & aerodynamics?” one Twitter user…
Science Alert In our never-ending quest to understand what happens to us after we die, humans have long seen the rare phenomenon of near-death experiences as providing some hints. People who’ve had a brush with death often report seeing and experiencing life-altering events on “the other side,” like a bright white light at the end…
NDTV A hilariously adorable picture has gone viral this week, but it has raised more questions than answers. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program shared a photo which shows a seal with a spotted eel stuck up its nose. Posted on Monday, the caption began, “Mondays…it might not have been…
Tech Explorist Various companies, entities or institutions have started collecting anonymized data that contains location stamps of the user. Though, the data can be acquired through phones records, credit card transactions and social media accounts. Doing this, they got details about users and users’ behavior for business expansion. What comes here is privacy issues. For…
Michael Gerson, Columnist/Washington Post They wander the halls of public buildings and haunt receptions like the ghosts of the GOP past — the cohort of Republican senators and House members who will be leaving office with the arrival of the new Congress. Some chose retirement because they did not want to do what is necessary…
Vanaja Rao, Freelance writer based in Hyderabad, India/Gulf News Younger generation changes phones more often with discarded models going to parents. There was a time when you were judged by the company you kept. The kind of friends you chose said a lot about you. We were often warned by our parents to be careful…
Imad Shakour/Middle East Monitor Israel is a very modern country: a strong army, an advanced economy, a modern society and one of the world’s most powerful countries in innovation and scientific development in the field of high technology and nanotechnology. However, the most important thing Israel produces is news, as it is the largest news…