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04/09/2019

Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed launches the largest project in the history of the country

A massive Dh50 billion stimulus package for Abu Dhabi has been announced by Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince. Officials have been given just 90 days to create a detailed ex*****on plan for the package, which seeks to transform the ease of doing business, and bring lasting economic benefit...

28/08/2019

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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip

22/08/2019

How to Vaccinate a Wild Bat

A new technology could make it much easier to fight deadly white-nose syndrome This probably won’t come as a surprise, but vaccinating wild bats is a difficult task. It’s also an important one: many bat populations are now endangered by white-nose syndrome, a serious fungal disease that invades ...

22/08/2019

Cats Perk Up at the Sound of Their Own Names

Many regard felines as indifferent to their human companions, but cat owners may beg to differ—and now they research to back them up. A study published yesterday (April 4) in Scientific Reports suggests that domestic cats can distinguish the sounds of their names, even if they don’t come when ca...

22/08/2019

Frog-Killing Chytrid Fungus Far Deadlier than Scientists Realized

Researchers have tallied the global death toll of the frog-killing chytrid fungus and its devastation is far worse than scientists thought, according to a study published yesterday (March 28) in Science. The fungal pathogens that cause the disease chytridiomycosis ravage the skin of frogs, toads, an...

22/08/2019

Monkeys Genetically Edited to Mimic Human Brain Development

Researchers from Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the University of North Carolina have reported successfully editing a human gene into rhesus monkeys in a study published on March 27 in National Science Review. The gene is said to be important for human brain developme...

22/08/2019

South Africa’s rhino poaching trends show a slight decrease—but death toll remains too high

New rhino poaching numbers out of South Africa show a small decrease from the previous year, but the death toll remains perilously high. The South African Department of Environmental Affairs announced that poachers killed 1,028 rhinos in 2017, down from 1,054 in 2016. Officials recorded a record los...

22/08/2019

One father started telling his daughter very random yet very interesting trivia before bedtime but her curiosity has outlasted his knowledge.

22/08/2019

The world that we have built for ourselves is full of handy gadgets and products that we use to make our lives easier and more comfortable. Pretty cool, isn't it? Yet there is a downside to all this convenience. We have become so reliant on all these things in our day-to-day lives that if they were....