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Public and school holiday dates for parents diaries for Eid Al Adha and the rest of 2021 Published:  June 03, 2021 15:00 1 of 11 Arafat Day is an Islamic holiday that falls on the 9th day of Dhu al-Hijjah of the lunar Islamic Calendar and marks the second day of Haj, or the pilgrimage. Eid Al Adha is observed on the next day, and marks the end of the pilgrimage. The exact dates of Islamic holidays are determined according to moon sighting. ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Ice core researcher Don Voigt examines an ice core at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) project. view more  Credit: Photograph by Gifford Wong CORVALLIS, Ore. - A study of two methods for reconstructing ancient temperatures has given climate researchers a better understanding of just how cold it was in Antarctica during the last ice age around 20,000 years ago. Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth today, was even colder during the last ice age. For de...

Twitter Facebook To prepare for the next giant leap in space exploration—traveling to Mars—the NASA Artemis program is planning to send humans back to the moon by 2024. But first, Artemis scientists are sending up a bunch of science projects, and a BU telescope is one of them.  The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) is being designed and built in a lab on Cummington Street by a team of engineers led by Brian Walsh, a BU College of Engineering assistant professor of me...

Leaving children inside locked, hot cars could kill them in less than 10 minutes: Experts Alamy image Parents have been warned against leaving their children alone in parked cars when they step out for shopping. Doctors, traffic and climate experts have renewed the call to families not to forget children behind locked vehicles, especially during peak summer months in the Middle East, which are, usually, between June and August. Parents have been warned against leaving their children alone in pa...

The days ahead will be characterised by intensive heat and hot, dry winds, starting June 7.

Researchers combined the unique resolution reflected body waves (P410P and P660P) retrieved from ambient noise interferometry with mineral physics modeling, to shed new light on transition zone physics. Relevant work was published in Nature Communications.

May 27, 2021 SHARE Maria Piarulli, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is a recipient of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program funding. Piarulli Piarulli was selected for her research program, “From Atomic Nuclei to Infinite Nucleonic Matter within Chiral Dynamics,” which falls under the Office of Science’s Nuclear Physics program office. The award is meant to support individual research programs of outstand...

LEADING THE SCIENCE REVOLUTION: Dr. Franchi The Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) is leading the first African network of higher education institutions in Planetary and Space Science. The project titled “Pan-Africa Planetary and Space Science Network” is funded to the tune of 1.4 million euros by the European Commission through the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) under the Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme. The project...

Ibrahim Al Jarwan, member of the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences, told Gulf News on Monday that Eid Al Adha this year will be celebrated on Tuesday, July 20. “The crescent moon for Dhu Al Hijjah is likely to form on Saturday, July 10, and so the first day of Dhu Al Hijjah will fall on July 11. Arafat Day will take place on July 19 and Eid Al Adha will be celebrated the following day, on July 20,” explained Al Jarwan. The Islamic calendar, unlike the Gregorian one, changes on a ...