Brittany’s Spirit: A Legacy of Learning and Living
It was a day not unlike any other typical school day. I got up at 5:30 a.m., caught…
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Keep Your Blood Pressure under Control
Hypertension occurs when the force of blood in the veins rises higher than the normal level. So what…
A New Hope for Type I Diabetes
1- Leptin therapy for diabetes Original Article: Wang, M. et al., PNAS (published online before print on March…
Microfinance for the Poor: Burden or Blessing?
Microfinance, which has become well known since its leading advocates Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh…
The Death of the Aral Sea
The Aral crisis is the best example of an ecological problem with serious social and economic consequences, directly…
Soil-Cleaning Plants
Soil has significant functions for securing the maintenance of life on earth. The food and water that plants…
Confinement Systems for Fusion
The world’s energy sources are limited and in four or five decades they will be in short supply.…
Nanotechnology in Sponges
Sponges, though it is still not clear whether they are plants or animals, are inspiring the solution to…
Lessons from Nature
Scientists are always trying to find more effective ways of making high performance materials with minimum consumption of…
The Importance of Ionosphere in Radio Communication
The first step in using electromagnetic waves in space for radio communication was taken by James Clark Maxwell…
Ozone Curtain
The issue which has occupied the agenda of the entire world in this century is the environment. As…
The Miracles of Water
Water is the most abundant substance in our world. It has one of the simplest possible chemical formulas:…
The Beneficial Effects of Lightning
The Qur’an is a book of guidance and wisdom, not of science. However, about 20 percent of its…
A Journey in the Atmosphere
Those daily events to which we have become accustomed are the ones that least attract our attention and…
Laser
Light is one of the most important phenomena in the universe. The Creator designed many mechanisms, such as…