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UAE plans unmanned mission to Mars by 2021
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UAE plans unmanned mission to Mars by 2021

July 22nd, 2014 | by MuslimScience
(Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday it planned to send an unmanned probe to Mars by 2021, in the Arab world’s first mission to another planet. A UAE Space Agency will be set up to supervise the mission...
Nature inspires advances in silicon electronics
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Nature inspires advances in silicon electronics

July 17th, 2014 | by MuslimScience
Representing ninety percent of the digital electronics market, silicon electronics are instrumental in the development and the future of consumer electronics and the digital world. As people have become increasingly used to...
Green tech cost assessments must be country-specific
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Green tech cost assessments must be country-specific

July 16th, 2014 | by MuslimScience
Designing efficient mechanisms for allocating climate funds to the developing world will require country-specific assessments of the cost of scaling up renewable energy technologies, says climate researcher Michael Jakob....
Innovating science education: First Pakistani to get Howard Hughes professorship
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Innovating science education: First Pakistani to get Howard Hughes professorship

July 3rd, 2014 | by MuslimScience
Boston University’s Hamid Zaman and his students have developed a detector for counterfeit and defective drugs flooding poorer countries, among other technologies to improve medical care in the developing world. Zaman is an...
The Results Are Out!
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The Results Are Out!

July 3rd, 2014 | by MuslimScience
An analysis of the primary STEM education scenario in the Muslim world by the Editors of localhost/muslim Education is a prime time issue all over the world now. The Muslim world produces a small amount of scientific output....
Avoiding Miracles and Emphasizing Naturalism in Science Teaching
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Avoiding Miracles and Emphasizing Naturalism in Science Teaching

July 3rd, 2014 | by MuslimScience
By Salman Hameed Some of the most challenging and exciting areas of research, deal with various forms of ‘origin’ questions. Origin of life. Origin of the Earth. Origin of human beings. Origin of consciousness. And of course,...
Is Science Education the Real Issue?
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Is Science Education the Real Issue?

July 3rd, 2014 | by MuslimScience
By Dr. Rana Dajani I was already a lecturer at a university for two years, when I realized, that real change starts at a much earlier level, in school. So, I decided to become a school teacher. It is not easy to be a teacher,...
Inquiry Based Science Education: the gateway to scientific development in the Islamic world
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Inquiry Based Science Education: the gateway to scientific development in the Islamic world

July 3rd, 2014 | by MuslimScience
By Sameh Soror After the first industrial revolution on the 16th Century, the world needed a workforce to fill the assembly lines and factory floors that were coming up every day. In response to the need for this workforce, the...
Could there be an Education Emergency?
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Could there be an Education Emergency?

July 3rd, 2014 | by MuslimScience
By Dr. Athar Osama In the pecking order of fundamental rights, such as, that of freedom, security, liberty and religion, a right to education did not feature, until quite recently. Things like life and liberty which were...
Preparing Future Generations for the Knowledge Society: Arab Knowledge report 2010/2011
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Preparing Future Generations for the Knowledge Society: Arab Knowledge report 2010/2011

July 3rd, 2014 | by MuslimScience
The Arab citizen lies at the heart of the process of building the desired knowledge society. The Arab Knowledge Report 2010/2011 proceeds to the stage of laying the foundations for the knowledge society by developing principles...