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21 Nov 2017 | 23:56 GMT

Gold motifs from Tutankhamun’s tomb hint at Levantine influence

Posted by Pakinam Amer | Categories: Archaeology, Science

Photographer: Christian Eckmann

Tutankhamun’s tomb is the gift that keeps on giving, it seems, as archaeologists continue to uncover new “treasures” after examining, for the first time, embossed gold applications on artifacts recovered from the famed tomb.  Read more

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  • Bronze Age
  • Egypt
  • Pharaoh
  • Syria
  • tomb
  • Tutankhamun

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08 Nov 2017 | 23:00 GMT

Cuneiform clay tablets discovered in Kurdistan

Posted by Pakinam Amer | Categories: Archaeology, Science, Technology

The tablets are valuable and could reveal insights into Bronze age Iraq.

University of Tübingen archaeologists unearthed 93 clay tablets adorned with cuneiform pictograms, an early Sumerian writing system, in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. The archive dates back to 1250 BCE.  Read more

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13 Sep 2017 | 22:49 BST

Blood on the lab bench

Posted by Pakinam Amer | Categories: Health, Research, Science

Scientists in Qatar have taken research into organ development one more step into the future by expanding the potential for creating personalized blood and heart tissue in the lab.  Read more

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  • blood
  • cell defferentiation
  • heart
  • lab
  • Middle East
  • Qatar
  • stem cells

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12 Sep 2017 | 20:35 BST

Probing a new algae species for clues into plant adaptation

Posted by Pakinam Amer | Categories: Environment, Evolution, Science

An investigation of the genome and phenome of a green alga called Chloroidium sp. UTEX 3007 has revealed, for the first time, certain adaptive traits that help algae acclimate to desert environments.  Read more

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  • Chloroidium
  • desert
  • green alage
  • NYUAD
  • Research
  • UAE

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15 Aug 2017 | 14:37 BST

Cholera in Yemen: Death by numbers

Posted by Pakinam Amer | Categories: Health

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that the number of suspected cholera cases in war-battered Yemen this year hit the half a million mark.  Read more

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06 Jul 2017 | 03:04 BST

The origins of cats

Posted by Pakinam Amer | Categories: Ecology and Evolution, Evolution, Science

One of the cat skeletons excavated from a site in Egypt.

A new study reveals some fascinating insights into the origin story of the cat, arguably the internet’s most favorite creature and a cherished companion to countless humans.  Read more

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  • cats
  • Egypt
  • Near East
  • origins
  • paleogenetics
  • wildcat

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06 Jul 2017 | 02:07 BST

Prescription drugs overused and abused in the Mideast

Posted by Pakinam Amer | Categories: Health, Research, Science

It turns out that, in the Middle East, getting access to prescription medications for serious ailments, in the absence of supervision, can sometimes be as easy as picking up an over-the-counter medicine for a headache or the common cold, or so claims a new review published in Pharmacology Research & Perspectives.  Read more

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  • abuse
  • antibiotics
  • Arab world
  • medication
  • medicine
  • Middle East
  • pharmacy
  • public health
  • self medication

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05 Jul 2017 | 12:07 BST

How global warming controls plankton populations

Posted by Pakinam Amer | Categories: Research, Science

A survey of the seas by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, has enabled scientists to come up with a predictive model of how planktonic heterotrophic prokaryotes – simple marine organisms that process most organic matter in the ocean – are affected by global warming.  Read more

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  • bacterioplankton
  • heterotrophic prokaryotes
  • latitudinal gradients
  • microbial oceanography
  • ocean warming
  • temperature control

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21 Jun 2017 | 20:25 BST

Weird birds

Posted by Pakinam Amer | Categories: Research, Science

Egyptian vultures exhibit strange mud-coloring rituals.

Scientists have discovered that Egyptian vultures engage in a peculiar “mudding” ritual that is one among a set of unique behaviors that not only distinguish the vultures from other birds of prey, but also, quite frankly, make them look a little “weird” in comparison.  Read more

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  • birds
  • ecology
  • Egypt
  • Egyptian
  • mudding
  • science
  • vultures

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23 May 2017 | 15:19 BST

‘Volcanic’ nanotherapy

Posted by Pakinam Amer | Categories: Research, Science

The research was inspired by the dynamic resulting from deep ocean volcanic eruptions.

In order to stack nanoclusters of oxygen-rich zinc peroxide in a way that allows it to be used for cancer therapy, researchers simulate a natural phenomenon, which usually results from underwater volcanic eruptions, inside the lab.  Read more

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  • cancer
  • chemistry
  • leidenfrost
  • medical science
  • nanoparticles
  • nanotherapy
  • zinc peroxide

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