September 30th, 2014 | by
MuslimScience By Ali Haider Noorani Even though we acknowledge the achievements that the Muslim society contributed to the scientific community, we cannot forget that it is losing its battle to the west. The reason for this can be, because it...
September 30th, 2014 | by
MuslimScience By Maha El Dahan ABU DHABI (Reuters) – An escalation of political turmoil in Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world, risks aggravating an already dire food security situation, the United Nations Food and...
September 23rd, 2014 | by
MuslimScience By Rashid Iftikhar In a nutshell, Muslim history began with the scientific golden age (800-1250), followed up by a total collapse in the scientific arena for seven hundred years and now in the twentieth century, there are efforts...
September 23rd, 2014 | by
MuslimScience by Lazarus Sauti This humble pen picked from Jan Piotrowski, specialist in science and technology issues, says food security is an issue that touches all aspects of the sustainable development agenda, from agriculture and...
September 16th, 2014 | by
MuslimScience By Jamshed Arslan In a 2013 Hollywood movie, Turbo , there is a scene where the hero of the movie, a snail, looks up into the sky and sees a strange bright light. He thinks it is a comet and starts praying because he believes...
September 16th, 2014 | by
MuslimScience The legend of King Midas is used to show the folly of valuing one form of riches to the exclusion of others. When Dionysus granted Midas his wish that everything he touched turned to gold, the king soon discovered that everything...
September 15th, 2014 | by
MuslimScience Food security has slowly, but markedly improved during the past year. Approximately 842m people today are estimated to be experiencing chronic hunger, down from 868m a year ago—an almost 3% decline. This caps a quarter of a...
September 12th, 2014 | by
MuslimScience Plant scientists are planning to conserve the wild relatives of important food crops in their natural habitats, but face a barrier because a significant proportion are found in conflict zones in the Middle East, including Syria...
September 9th, 2014 | by
MuslimScience By Ingrid Margarita Florez Fortich The relationship between religion and science is a very controversial one. The antagonism between Christianity and science is well known and documented, being the case of Galileo Galilei and...
September 3rd, 2014 | by
MuslimScience By Isla Binnie and Emma Farge The world’s worst Ebola epidemic has endangered harvests and sent food prices soaring in West Africa, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Tuesday, warning the problem would...
