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Turkey’s top science body to produce biosimilar cancer drugs
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Turkey’s top science body to produce biosimilar cancer drugs

September 22nd, 2015 | by MuslimScience
Turkey’s stop science body aims to produce domestic cancer drugs by producing biosimilar molecules, according to an expert. The Marmara Research Center (MAM), working under the Scientific and Technological Research Council of...
Pakistani researchers develop solar-powered mobile phone network
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Pakistani researchers develop solar-powered mobile phone network

September 21st, 2015 | by MuslimScience
Pakistani researchers have developed a portable, solar-powered mobile phone network for use in disasters like floods and earthquakes when regular communications are often disrupted. Researchers at the Information Technology...
How we fail our future?
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How we fail our future?

September 17th, 2015 | by MuslimScience
By: The Editors of localhost/muslim The Muslim World Science Initiative (and localhost/muslim) stands with Ahmed – the Texas teen who was arrested last week for #DaringtoDream. While he was penalised for being a Muslim in...
Wasp venom ‘a weapon against cancer’
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Wasp venom ‘a weapon against cancer’

September 16th, 2015 | by MuslimScience
The venom of a wasp native to Brazil could be used as a weapon to fight cancer, scientists believe. A toxin in the sting kills cancer cells without harming normal cells, lab studies suggest. The University of Brazil team say the...
Spooky! Quantum Action Is 10,000 Times Faster Than Light
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Spooky! Quantum Action Is 10,000 Times Faster Than Light

September 16th, 2015 | by MuslimScience
How fast do quantum interactions happen? Faster than light, 10,000 times faster. That’s what a team of physicists led by Juan Yin at the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai found in an experiment...
Crater That Leaks Neon Blue ‘Lava’?
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Crater That Leaks Neon Blue ‘Lava’?

September 15th, 2015 | by MuslimScience
Reuben Wu loves volcanoes. It started as a childhood obsession rivaled only by space travel and dinosaurs, which explains his life goal of photographing the neon blue flames of the Kawah Ijen crater on Java. The Blue Fire...
TaskForce Essay: Should Religion Be Kept Out of the Science Classroom?
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TaskForce Essay: Should Religion Be Kept Out of the Science Classroom?

September 10th, 2015 | by MuslimScience
By: Jamal Mimouni The issue at hand is whether or not religion should be kept out of the science classroom in the Muslim world and in particular at the level of university education. This is a controversial subject in view of...
Observed problems and proposed solutions for science education in global universities
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Observed problems and proposed solutions for science education in global universities

September 10th, 2015 | by MuslimScience
By: Michael J. Reiss Professor of Science Education at UCL Institute of Education University College, London The issue at hand and my own contribution Recent decades have seen substantial increases in the number of universities...
TaskForce Essay: Science, Society & the University
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TaskForce Essay: Science, Society & the University

September 10th, 2015 | by MuslimScience
By: Adil Najam Member localhost/muslim’s Task Force on Teaching of Science in Muslim World Let us be clear on a few things, right at the outset: Science is not civilization. Science does not have a religion. Gravity comes...
Cancer cells programmed back to normal by US scientists
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Cancer cells programmed back to normal by US scientists

September 10th, 2015 | by MuslimScience
Cancer cells have been programmed back to normal by scientists in a breakthrough which could lead to new treatments and even reverse tumour growth. For the first time aggressive breast, lung and bladder cancer cells have been...