CHAIRMAN: DR. KHALID BIN THANI AL THANI
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: DR. KHALID MUBARAK AL-SHAFI

Life Style / Science & Environment

Planet spiralling into star may offer glimpse into Earth's end 19 Dec 2022 - 06:53 pm
Kepler-1658b's orbit is being shortened by the tides, in a similar process to how Earth's oceans rise and fall every day. (NASA via AFP)
Scientists freeze Great Barrier Reef coral in world-first trial 19 Dec 2022 - 03:30 pm
Research volunteers collect coral spawn from Great Barrier Reef coral, at the Australian Institute Of Marine Science, Sea Simulator in Townsville, Australia December 12, 2022. REUTERS/Jill Gralow
NASA launches satellite for landmark study of Earth's water 16 Dec 2022 - 06:59 pm
In this image released by NASA, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, in Santa Barbara, California, on December 16, 2022. (Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA / AFP)
SpaceX rocket launches world's first global water survey mission 16 Dec 2022 - 03:43 pm
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands on a launch pad with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite from NASA and France's space agency CNES at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Lompoc, California on December 15, 2022. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP
Scientists to carbon markets: Don’t monetize the whales 15 Dec 2022 - 07:59 pm
Reuters file photo
Study explains surprise surge in methane during pandemic lockdown 14 Dec 2022 - 07:47 pm
Experts say the fossil fuel sector has the biggest potential to cut methane emissions this decade by mending leaky pipelines or gas storage facilities. Photo: Reuters
Rich nations against new biodiversity fund 13 Dec 2022 - 10:22 pm
Members of WWF protest during COP15, the two-week UN Biodiversity summit, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on December 7, 2022. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi/File Photo
US researchers announce historic nuclear fusion breakthrough 13 Dec 2022 - 09:28 pm
Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (left - right) Principal Experimentalist Alex Zylstra, Principal Designer Annie Kritcher, Chief Engineer for National Ignition Facility Laser System Jean-Michel Di Nicola, Target Fabrications Program Manager Michael Stadermann, Stagnation Science Team Lead Arthur Pak and Tammy Ma, of the Inertial Fusion Energy Institutional Initiative, speak during a news conference at the Department of Energy headquarters to announce a breakthrough in fusion research on December 13, 2022 in Washington, DC.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP
NASA capsule Orion splashes down after record-setting lunar voyage 11 Dec 2022 - 11:42 pm
NASA's unmanned Orion spaceship splashes down in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California, Mexico, on December 11, 2022. - Orion was launched November 16 on the Artemis rocket for a 25-day mission to the Moon. The main goal of this mission was to test Orion's heat shield -- for the day when it is humans and not test mannequins riding inside. (Photo by CAROLINE BREHMAN / POOL / AFP)
NASA's Orion capsule heads for splashdown after Artemis I flight around moon 11 Dec 2022 - 11:34 am
NASA's next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from launch complex 39-B on the unmanned Artemis 1 mission to the moon, seen from Sebastian, Florida, U.S. November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Joe Rimkus Jr.
Oldest DNA on record - 2 million years - reveals Greenland's lost world 07 Dec 2022 - 08:18 pm
An artist's reconstruction shows the Kap Kobenhavn formation in northernmost Greenland two million years ago, at a time when temperatures were significantly higher than northernmost Greenland today, in this undated handout image obtained by Reuters on December 6, 2022. (Beth Zaiken/Handout via Reuters)
Webb telescope promises new age of the stars 07 Dec 2022 - 12:43 pm
In this file photo taken on September 06, 2022 This handout picture released by NASA on September 6, 2022 shows a stellar nursery nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula captured in crisp detail by NASA's Webb telescope, revealing never-before-seen features that deepen scientific understanding, the agency said. (Photo by Space Telescope Science Institut / NASA / AFP)
Prehistoric 'wonderfully weird beast' Whatcheeria grew big quickly 05 Dec 2022 - 05:02 pm
A skull of the large early tetrapod and apex predator Whatcheeria, which lived an amphibious lifestyle around 330 million years ago and whose fossils have been found in Iowa, is seen with its many sharp teeth visible in the collections of the Field Museum, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., in this undated handout image. Kate Golembiewski/Field Museum/Handout via REUTERS
Australia starts building 'momentous' radio telescope 05 Dec 2022 - 11:16 am
This handout released on December 5, 2022 by Australia's Department of Industry, Science and Resources shows an artist's impression of low-frequency stations forming the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope, to be built in Western Australia. Photo by Handout / Australia's Department of Industry, Science and Resources / AFP
Climate change supercharges threat from forest-eating bug 05 Dec 2022 - 11:04 am
This handout photograph released by Luonnonvarakeskus-Natural Resources Institute Finland on November 11, 2022, shows a gallery made by beetles, one of many on a tree which restrict the water and nutrient flow of the tree causing the death of the tree, above The Arctic Circle, in Finnish Lapland, near Vikajarvi on July 21, 2020, where during the last 20 years Scandinavian Arctic Forests have been the target of an increasing amount of wood bugs, due to longer summers. Photo by IpsGallery_MarkusMelin / NATURAL RESCOURCES INSTITUTE FINLAND/LUONNONVARAKESKUS / AFP
Chinese astronauts return to earth after 'successful' six-month mission 04 Dec 2022 - 06:35 pm
File photo: Rocket launch at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center near Jiuquan, Gansu province, China, October 16, 2021. (REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins)
Distant black hole is caught in the act of annihilating a star 30 Nov 2022 - 08:59 pm
This undated artist’s impression illustrates how it might look when a star approaches too close to a black hole, where the star is squeezed by the intense gravitational pull of the black hole. Some of the star’s material gets pulled in and swirls around the black hole forming the disc that can be seen in this image. In rare cases, such as this one, jets of matter and radiation are shot out from the poles of the black hole. (ESO/M.Kornmesser/Handout via REUTERS)
A greener ride: West Africans switch on to electric motorbikes 30 Nov 2022 - 03:33 pm
Peninsula