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Plans For Turkey’s First Nuclear Power Plant Revealed

Located in the southern province of Mersin, on the Mediterranean Sea, the Akkuyu nuclear plant has been controversial since it was first proposed in...

Nuclear Updates from Jordan, Egypt and the UAE

From growing protests in Jordan and Egypt to the first ever approved plant in UAE – we have the latest on nuclear from the...

Novel-tee Charges Your Phone, Someday

Charging our clothes to credit cards is nothing new.  Now our clothes may be doing the charging. Scientists at the University of South Carolina (USC)...

Turks Trade Gold for Iran’s Energy Allegiance

To continue feeding its addiction to Iranian oil, Turkey exported eight times as much gold to Iran in the first five months of 2012...

Biofuel from Plastic for this Young Egyptian Scientist from Alexandria

Azza Abdel Hamid Faiad was the winner of the 2011 European Union Contest for Young Scientists for finding a new way of turning plastic into biofuel. A sixteen-year-old...

Saudi Arabia’s Energy Woes Solved by Red Sea Drilling?

Gas is 15 cents a liter (60 cents a gallon) in Saudi Arabia: the government is fighting to keep both high standard of living...

Palestinians Embrace Solar To Reduce Dependency on Israel

Palestinians want to be more energy independent but will Israeli authorities, which are currently threatening the demolition of solar plants in the West Bank,...

Leap-second Bug Consumes Megawatts of Electricity

Was it the leap-second bug that pushed America's power plants beyond their capacity? A 61 second minute was added to clocks around the world on...

US Sanctions on Iran’s Oil Pressures Turkey’s Energy Supply

Libya is one of the countries with which Turkey signed a rapid oil supply deal after the United States threatened to sanction countries that...

Morocco solar energy deals led by Saudi Arabia

ACWA rumored to win the contract to build a 160 MW CSP project in in the south of Morocco.

Google Resorts to Going Green With Trash Talk

Gmail offers recycling tips. Apparently, they’ve been doing this for years. What rock have I been under? I was doing some email spring cleaning during...

Can Lebanon Reach 12% Renewable Energy By 2020 ?

In 2009, Lebanon pledged to produce 12% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020- is this target optimistic today? Renewables are becoming an important...

Jordan Gets REEL About Renewables

Jordan’s nuclear industry is wildly volatile, especially when you consider it doesn’t actually exist. Arwa reported on last week’s parliamentary vote to shelve Jordan's first...

Jordan Suspends Its Nuclear Plans Amid Controversy

Jordan has supported a parliamentary committee recommendation to suspend Jordan's projected nuclear programme It's certainly been a busy week for Khaled Toukan who is commissioner...

Turkey’s Early Hydroelectric Dams Featured in Exhibit

The first hydroelectric dam built in Ankara, Turkey's capital city, the Çubuk Dam was promoted as "Ankara's Bosphorus". A new exhibit at Istanbul's avant-garde SALT...

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Was the Flydubai cockpit emergency an attempted terror attack — or a pilot in crisis?

What happened inside the cockpit of flydubai Flight FZ1073 on Wednesday morning is still under investigation, but the story has become considerably more disturbing since the first reports of a “fight between pilots.”

Two People, One Dataset, and a Disagreement Nobody Can Settle

Two people can look at the same sustainability dashboard and reach different conclusions. The problem is not necessarily the data, but whether anyone can trace how the number was produced.

Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

Walk through almost any Saudi city today and one form dominates residential streets: the detached villa, sitting on its own plot, separated from its neighbors, usually surrounded by a wall and reached by car. It feels thoroughly Saudi. But much of the architectural DNA of the modern Saudi house comes from American suburbia.

Leen Kawas and the Work of Carrying Promising Medicines Forward

EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas is advancing lonafarnib for chronic hepatitis D, showing how stalled late-stage drug programs can be revived and carried toward regulatory review.

The Financial Impact of Meta Glasses on Europe’s Eyewear Market

Smart glasses are changing the economics of eyewear by turning conventional frames into higher-priced technology products. What used to be mainly a sale built around frame design, lenses, prescription needs and brand preference is now also a sale built around cameras, audio, AI features, app support and connected-device setup.

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Was the Flydubai cockpit emergency an attempted terror attack — or a pilot in crisis?

What happened inside the cockpit of flydubai Flight FZ1073 on Wednesday morning is still under investigation, but the story has become considerably more disturbing since the first reports of a “fight between pilots.”

Two People, One Dataset, and a Disagreement Nobody Can Settle

Two people can look at the same sustainability dashboard and reach different conclusions. The problem is not necessarily the data, but whether anyone can trace how the number was produced.

Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

Walk through almost any Saudi city today and one form dominates residential streets: the detached villa, sitting on its own plot, separated from its neighbors, usually surrounded by a wall and reached by car. It feels thoroughly Saudi. But much of the architectural DNA of the modern Saudi house comes from American suburbia.

Leen Kawas and the Work of Carrying Promising Medicines Forward

EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas is advancing lonafarnib for chronic hepatitis D, showing how stalled late-stage drug programs can be revived and carried toward regulatory review.

The Financial Impact of Meta Glasses on Europe’s Eyewear Market

Smart glasses are changing the economics of eyewear by turning conventional frames into higher-priced technology products. What used to be mainly a sale built around frame design, lenses, prescription needs and brand preference is now also a sale built around cameras, audio, AI features, app support and connected-device setup.

Why Pest Control Has to Be Local: Mira Home on How Climate and Geography Change Pest Pressure Across America

Why pest control needs to adapt to local climate, moisture, building patterns and pest pressure rather than rely on one national treatment plan.

Brad Pitt walked the red carpet with rescue dogs. Why isn’t rescue just the default?

The film itself is about a Special Forces officer, played by Pitt, stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with his combat dog Odin after a plane crash. Odin is played by Uber, a highly trained German shepherd from a military and law-enforcement breeding line.

Beavers are moving into the Arctic, and they are rewiring the tundra

“Beavers effectively write their history into the landscape with each shrub they cut and every pond they create by damming streams,” said lead author Dr Georgia Hole, who carried out the research at Anglia Ruskin University and is now based at Durham University.
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