DUBAI: An ode to urban culture, Urban Jam will bring together a planet-spanning mix of top athletes, world-class street artists, and dynamite DJs at Expo 2020’s Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre on November 1. The elite round-up of talent features 35 performers from 28 countries, including skateboarders, scooter riders and BMX bikers, along with artists Myneandyours and Ruben Sanchez, […]
ABU DHABI: The mountainous areas have entered strongly in the list of the most important tourist attractions in the country during the past few years, and have become attractive destinations for investments, especially in light of the official attention they receive that contributed to improving the level of services and infrastructure in them. Areas such […]
DUBAI: Switzerland celebrated its Expo 2020 Dubai National Day earlier today with a visit by the nation’s President and an inspirational art project that spreads a message of unity and peace. The National Day celebration began in Al Wasl Plaza, with Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin, President of the Swiss Confederation welcomed by His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al […]
Passengers flying into Rome from 2024 onwards will be able to go airborne for their taxi ride into the city center too if a project between the company operating its main airport and a German startup lifts off on schedule. Startup Volocopter hopes to make Fiumicino Airport a pioneer site for the rotor-bladed, battery-powered two-seater […]
DUBAI: A play starring robots, the illumination of a robot statue, and a seminar devoted to robotics and Artificial Intelligence marked the Czech Pavilion’s celebration of the country’s invention of the word ‘robot.’ Coined in the Czech Republic, then known as Czechoslovakia, around 100 years ago, ‘robot’ was first uttered on the stage of the National Theatre […]
DUBAI: Russia has blazed a new trail in space, developing technology that will soon enable advertising high above the Earth as early as next year, and shooting a full-length feature film at the International Space Station (ISS). Participating in ‘Russia: Space’, held as part of Expo 2020 Dubai, Russian company Avant Space unveiled details of […]
Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), announced a collaboration with talabat, to launch the #CreativeCravings initiative, inviting UAE-based artists to express their artistic interpretation of culinary arts at the ‘talabat Kitchen’ at Expo 2020 Dubai. As part of this initiative, the entities will commission a line-up of six artists from Dubai Culture’s talent pool […]
Manhattan is no stranger to supertall skyscrapers but Brooklyn’s skyline has now fundamentally changed as its first supertall reached its full, vertiginous height. The 93-story, 1,066-foot-tall residential building, standing at 9 DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, was designed by SHoP Architects. (Supertalls, by definition, are residential or office buildings reaching 300 meters — 984 feet […]
DUBAI: Al Jalila Foundation, a member of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, dedicated to transforming lives through medical innovation, announced the launch of Majlis Al Amal (Hope Lounge), a unique ‘cancer drop-in centre’ and the first of its kind community centre dedicated to female cancer patients and their wellbeing. In the UAE, approximately 4,500 […]
DUBAI: The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) announced that it has selected SpaceX as launch provider to deliver MBZ-SAT, the most advanced commercial satellite in the region in the field of high-resolution satellite imagery, into space. The second Emirati satellite to be fully developed and built by a team of Emirati engineers after the […]
ABU DHABI: Researchers from a top American hospital, Cleveland Clinic, have opened a novel study for a vaccine aimed at eventually preventing triple-negative breast cancer, the most aggressive and lethal form of the disease. This phase I trial is designed to determine the maximum tolerated dose of the vaccine in patients with early-stage triple-negative breast […]
