Saudi Arabia’s National Wildlife Center on Wednesday released 34 species of wildlife in the ibex area, located about 180 kilometers from Riyadh.
This effort aligns with the national strategy for environmental preservation and the Saudi Vision 2030 aims to create a positive and attractive environment while improving the quality of life.
The UN meteorological agency showed on Tuesday that the temperature of 48. 8 degrees Celsius (119. 8 degrees Fahrenheit) in Sicily two years ago was the temperature ever recorded in Europe.
The World Meteorological Organization says the Sicilian scorcher was picked up on Aug. 11, 2021, at a time when temperatures were soaring across much of Europe — renewing concerns about climate change caused by human activity.
The figure blew past the previous European record of 48 C that was recorded in the Greek cities of Athens and Elefsina in July 1977.
Sicily’s 2021 record was based on meteorological observations and was first published in the International Journal of Climatology.
Randall Cerveny, who reports on climate and weather extremes for the World Meteorological Organization, says the confirmation followed a lengthy investigation that required “meticulous care” by the agency.
“This study demonstrates the alarming trend of setting maximum temperature records in express regions of the world,” Cerveny said.
This evidence is published in the Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes, which tracks records of extremes such as global maximum and minimum temperatures, heavier hailstones, maximum wind gusts, longer lightning strikes, and weather-related deaths.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is partnering with amplifAI fitness, a Saudi fitness generation company, to expand a new disease detection that combines AI generation with HyplexTM hyperspectral imaging designed by Andrea Fratalocchi, Professor of Electrical Engineering at KAUST.
The collaboration will first test the approach to detecting and treating diabetic foot complications. A clinical trial is planned, KAUST said in a statement Monday.
The MoU signed with amplifAI highlights the role that the KAUST Smart Health Initiative plays in achieving better healthcare. The goal is to detect diabetes at an early stage, expand greater treatment protocols and, in particular, reduce the need for lower limb amputations.
This is the first time that the KAUST generation will be implemented in the care of diabetic patients. This will save the Kingdom more than SAR 2 billion a year in medical costs and reduce the annual number of 1. 5 million diabetic foot amputations worldwide. millions of people.
HyplexTM can collect terabyte-length insights in one second, surpassing the gigabyte length of existing ad chambers, offering a wealth of new data for early disease detection, according to the release.
Pierre Magistretti, Vice President of Research and Director of the Smart Health Initiative at KAUST, stated that this initiative aims to take advantage of the predictive functions of synthetic intelligence in the detection of diseases using the generation evolved through KAUST, thus achieving better processes of diagnosis and making them more precise and efficient.
Saudi sleuths and media personalities included in the “Future” list have been elected members of the board of directors of the Association of Saudi Journalists.
The elections, held on Sunday, saw the participation of the Saudi journalistic community.
Adhwan Alahmari, Editor-in-Chief of Independent Arabia, was elected president of the Saudi Journalist Association.
The elected members of the Board of Directors are: Zaid bin Kami, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Asharq Al-Awsat; Mohammed Al-Bishi, editor-in-chief of Al-Eqtisadiah; Faisal Abbas, editor-in-chief of Arab News; Adhwan Alahmri, editor-in-chief of Independent Arabia; Ali Al-Hazmi, editor-in-chief of Sabq; Hamed Alshehri, editor-in-chief of the Saudipedia platform; Fatima Al-Awfi of the Media Department of the Ministry of Sports; Lama Al-Shethry, editor-in-chief of Sayidaty; May Al-Sharif, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Independent Arabia; Noor Nugali, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Arab News; Bushra Alrabiah of the Government Communications Centre; Thekra Al-Atyawi, Saudi Broadcasting Authority; and Mamdouh Al-Muhaini, director general of the Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath TV channels.
Saudi Media Minister Salman Al-Dosari, in an article published in “X”, highlighted the importance of civil society in improving journalists’ capacities and achieving better media performance.
He congratulated the newly elected board of the Saudi Journalists Association, thanked the outgoing council led by Khaled Al-Malik, and expressed optimism about a productive partnership for advancing the media industry.
After the elections, the board held its first meeting and elected Alahmari as president and Faisal Abbas as president, while Bushra Alrabiah was elected treasurer.
Alahmari thanked his colleagues for accepting it as true.
He hopes that the new team can realize his hopes and aspirations. He also praised the wonderful efforts made through the members of the past administrators’ forums that contributed to the achievement of the goals.
He said his colleagues will present their visions at the next meeting to develop an organized strategy for their work that stems from the main objectives of the association and is consistent with the aspirations of Saudi media and journalists.
Set against a backdrop of towering skyscrapers, a dinosaur robot raises its feathery wings, scaring away its terrified prey. It is a clinical invention that shows how some dinosaurs may have flapped their primitive wings to scare their prey out of hiding, like birds like the roadrunner.
In this case, the dinosaur robot’s prey is a grasshopper, which responds by lunging into a bush. The interaction is shown in a video released throughout a study conducted by researchers in Seoul, South Korea. The findings were published in the journal Nature and reported via AFP.
Dinosaurs were long thought to be relatives of reptiles, however, in the last three decades, fossils of feathered dinosaurs have been found, leading scientists to think they are the ancestors of birds.
Many of these feathered dinosaurs could not fly, so a number of theories have been put forth, including that the feathers insulated the dinosaurs against the cold, or maybe they allowed dinosaurs to move more quickly.
It’s possible that some small dinosaurs would have even used their wings to shoot and catch their prey, said Piotr Jablonski, leader of the study.
The study team proposed adding a new predatory trick to that list, which they called the “pursuit strategy,” used by passerines and northern mockingbirds that flap their wings to trick their prey into revealing their location.
To demonstrate their hypothesis, the team built a robot version of the flightless dinosaur Caudipteryx, a peacock-sized pennaraptor that lived 124 million years ago.
The steel robot, nicknamed “Robopteryx,” was tasked with flapping its wings to scare away certain grasshoppers, whose ancestors lived at the same time as the Caudipteryx.
“The grasshoppers more frequently escaped when the dinosaur displayed its proto-wings,” said lead study author Jinseok Park.
The grasshoppers were also more likely to jump when the robot’s wings were painted with contrasting black-and-white dots, which was demonstrated after testing the grasshoppers’ neural reaction and how the contrasting-colored wings scared them off and triggered their flight reflex.
The French know how to make smart chocolate, the delicious praline comes from Belgium, but Switzerland has a special relationship with its chocolate products.
On a quiet morning at Müensterplatz in Basel, a group of chocolate lovers gather. Stéphie, the tour guide, hands out the famous Leckerli gingerbread, a Basel speciality covered with a layer of chocolate to satisfy the mood of the organization.
On the banks of the Rhine, she took out of her bag a piece of white chocolate with cocoa liqueur and which combines dark and milk chocolate with cocoa butter, cocoa, sugar and milk.
“It’s the bitter, salty sweet that chocolate gives,” says Stephie.
A moment of anticipation precedes the first bite: the coin melts immediately thanks to Swiss creativity. According to the tour guide, cocoa was sold in pharmacies in the 18th century. “It was a medicinal syrup combined with herbs,” he explains.
When he arrived in Europe, he underwent an immediate transition, first with sugar and then with the artistic Swiss manufacturers. The first chocolate bar was made in England in 1847, when Briton Joseph Fry developed a technique that involved mixing cocoa powder, sugar, and cocoa butter to obtain a chewy piece. However, the first piece of edible chocolate is fragile and difficult to chew.
According to the German Press Agency, Switzerland discovered chocolate production in the 19th century. In 1819, François-Louis Cailler founded the first chocolate factory on Lake Geneva. The Cailler logo (now Nestlé) is one of the oldest surviving logos in Switzerland.
But the real revolution was led by Daniel Peter, Cailler’s son-in-law, 50 years later. In 1975, he created the first mass-produced milk chocolate product. After several attempts with powdered milk, Peter created the first successful chocolate product that combined cocoa butter, cocoa liquor, sugar and condensed cow’s milk. ” He was the first to serve chocolate to tourists,” says Stephie.
The next step towards perfection was the use of the shell to combine chocolate. Conching is a process invented by Rodolphe Lindt of Bern in 1879. He heated the chocolate to 90°C, stirred it for a long time, and despite everything, he got a melt-in-your-mouth chocolate with a more delicious smell.
Stephie points out that Basel is characterized by its wide variety of delicacies, making it a destination for locals and the like.
In Schwyz, 35 kilometres from Lucerne, you will find the Max Felchlin company, which specialises in flavoured chocolates.
Cocoa beans from Latin America, Ghana and Madagascar are processed at the Felchlin factory until they become a shiny, mellow block.
The organization visited the Max Felchlin store in Lucerne. The tasting begins with low-intensity chocolate chunks, followed by a spicy, caramel-flavored white chocolate and ice cream. Then, hikers a piece of milk chocolate combined with gingerbread-flavored, bloodless balsamic vinegar. crackers and the tour ends with a piece of unsweetened dark chocolate.
The tasting was fun, encouraged everyone and once again highlighted the identity of Swiss chocolate.
The world’s largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, set sail from Miami on its maiden voyage on Saturday, flying the flag of a small-town population.
The ship, built over 900 days in a shipyard in Turku, Finland, is a monument of enormity, longer than the Eiffel Tower, with 20 decks and space for more than 5,600 passengers (7,600 in capacity) and a crew of 2,350. .
To make sure no one gets bored or hungry, the monster ship, registered in the Bahamas, has seven swimming pools, adding a 40,000-gallon “lake,” six water slides, a carousel, which Royal Caribbean says is the largest giant ice rink at sea. and more than 40 restaurants and bars, Agence France Presse reported.
Still bored? There will be 50 musicians and actors as an orchestra of 16 musicians.
The $2 billion Icon, the first of Royal Caribbean’s new Quantum class, is equipped with the latest generation and, despite its gargantuan size, claims to be more environmentally friendly than some smaller cruise ships.
The Icon runs on what they say is environmentally friendly liquefied vegetable fuel (although some experts say LNG systems can leach destructive amounts of methane into the atmosphere).
It also includes a microwave-assisted pyrolysis formula to convert waste into energy-producing gas, as well as a reverse osmosis formula to supply almost all the new water the ship needs, the company says.
The icon was gladly christened on Tuesday, when world soccer star Lionel Messi, now with Inter Miami, pressed a button to send a bottle of champagne to the bow of the ship.
After departing its Miami homeport on Saturday for its inaugural sold-out cruise (the company says demand for tickets is “unprecedented”), the Icon will spend a week in the Caribbean before returning to Miami.
At 2,000 feet (365 meters) long, the Icon will take the name of the world’s largest from its smaller Royal Caribbean counterpart, the Wonder of the Seas.