The researchers identified the Amazon region, the Mediterranean and East Africa as regions that might experience severe change in multiple sectors. Thirty research teams in 12 different coun... Read more
AUSTRALIAN researchers have made a breakthrough in combatting a global stem rust strain threatening the world’s wheat crops CSIRO post-doctoral fellow Sam Periyannan has cloned a stem... Read more
Researchers describe potential for MERS coronavirus to spread internationally after mass gatherings in the Middle East this summer and fall The life-threatening MERS coronavirus that has eme... Read more
As world food and energy demands grow, nations and some corporations increasingly are looking to acquire quality agricultural land for food production. Some nations are gaining land by buyin... Read more
Before the close of the decade, the United States could become the world’s top producer of oil and natural gas. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), increasing domestic produc... Read more
A potential new treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI), which affects thousands of soldiers, auto accident victims, athletes and others each year, has shown promise in laboratory researc... Read more
A Qatari engineer has come up with a device that could prove to be a boon to the arid regions of the world by producing water from humidity in the air. The advantages of “Agri Green”, which... Read more
Landmark global survey reveals major shortcomings in many countries around the world – Innovation Needed Governments around the world are leaving hundreds of millions of cancer patient... Read more
A French invention which has been a long time in development now has the wings to be a world beater, and is dripping with promise Every once in a while an invention crops up with the power t... Read more
The failure to protect the Flame code from being reverse engineered may turn out to have been a monumental error. The discovery of a new species of highly sophisticated malware earlier this... Read more
The Middle East and North Africa is on the cusp of creating its own Silicon Valley experience When Joichi Ito started investing in early-stage Silicon Valley start-ups after the dot-com cras... Read more
Google’s new initiative, Ebda2, means “Start” in Arabic DUBAI — A bus branded with the Google logo will be traveling across 10 governorates in Egypt starting this week, including stops at un... Read more