July 14th, 2015 | by
MuslimScience By Prof. Nidhal Guessoum On July 14, Nasa spacecraft New Horizons will be passing by Pluto at the astronomically “very close” distance of 13,000km. It will have travelled 4.8 billion km, for over nine years, at the speed of...
July 10th, 2015 | by
MuslimScience Shoaib Zaidi, Professor and Dean, School of Science and Engineering, Habib University Executive Summary Cognizant of the pitiful state of tertiary science and engineering education in Pakistan, Habib University’s School of...
July 10th, 2015 | by
MuslimScience By: Dzulkifli Abdul Razak President, International Association of Universities (IAU) Creating a “radical shift” In attempting to dwell on some of the issues related to education in general, and science in particular, it is...
July 10th, 2015 | by
MuslimScience By: Moneef R. Zou’bi Science Education: Why? Science education27 is currently viewed as inadequate in the developing and developed worlds. This was highlighted at the recent InterAcademy Panel (IAP) Science Education Programme...
July 3rd, 2015 | by
MuslimScience Editorial Iran is civilisation that is several thousand years old. Some believe that what was once Persia was the cradle of civilisation. Many of early contributions of Muslim Scientists originating out of the House of Wisdom in...
July 2nd, 2015 | by
MuslimScience By CHRISTOPHER SCHROEDER There wasn’t much exceptional about my recent lunch out with a couple dozen young, aspiring entrepreneurs. It was a typical, crowded, buzzing, Nandos-like joint—good food cheap, easy to pull tables...
July 2nd, 2015 | by
MuslimScience By: Athar Osama Legend has it that that the seeds of what we know today as the Silicon Valley were laid at the Stanford University and the Stanford University Industrial Park when a Stanford Professor Frederick Terman who loaned...
July 2nd, 2015 | by
MuslimScience “Bruce A. Wooley, a former Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department of Stanford University, has said that without a doubt the finest university in the world – in the world – preparing electrical...