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📱 Digital wellbeing is a public health priority!

⚠️ Youth in Saudi Arabia spend 6–10 hrs online daily, affecting sleep, focus, and activity.

👥 Families want school programs & local guidance.

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💡 In the global AI race, most language models focus on English or Western languages. So, building Arabic language models isn’t just tech, it’s vital for inclusivity in AI.

Let’s empower regional innovation 👇
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🌱 Synthetic biology is opening new frontiers in the Arab world, from engineered yeast that produces medicines and biofuels in Egypt, to algae-powered carbon capture at KAUST in Saudi Arabia.

Learn more about synthetic biology https://t.co/aRcUZifRzW

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🚀 Exciting news from the world of genomics!

🧬 Scientists from Saudi Arabia and Japan have unveiled the first-ever phased pangenome assemblies representing both populations.

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https://t.co/AHKYdf9SzD

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🧪 Not all science happens in labs.

🦴 For Sallam Lab paleontologists, discovery means tents, tools, teamwork, and dust.
Nature Middle East explores what it really takes to unearth the past.

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https://t.co/3vejGgYvVE

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📢 Nature Conference at @KAUST 👇

📊 If your work aligns with fields such as Neuroscience, Metabolism, or Translational Psychiatry, you are invited to submit an abstract to the Nature Conference at KAUST.

🗓️ Deadline: October 3, 2025

🔗 Submit here: https://t.co/4JDKmUP7YO

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We’re live! 🎙️

The conversation on "The Future of Science Journalism and Publishing: Will AI Rewrite the Script?" is underway. 🚀

Follow along for insights from Sahana Ghosh, Stephanie Preuss, Richard Van Noorden, and Lynne Smit!
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The anguished expression on the face of a 3,500-year-old mummy in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo was probably caused by a painful death, rather than a botched preparation of her body for the afterlife, a study in Frontiers in Medicine has found.

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🛰 A study in Nature Communications has shown the efficiency of using satellite images coupled with supercomputers and advanced search algorithms to routinely detect and monitor, from space, floating marine debris.

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🧬️ Gene exchange between the bird flu variant in Egypt gave rise to a new fatal strain that evolved in Europe and spread through wild birds across the world.

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To safeguard the biodiversity of this important marine resource, the researchers recommend an urgent plan for better regulation and monitoring of commercial fishing including limiting trawling and improved monitoring of other activity in the area, including recreational fishing.

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📢 Drastic changes in the diversity of the species found in the Mediterranean off the Egyptian coast are a result of overexploitation of its fisheries.

🔗https://t.co/uVdDXzV2vt #NatureME ..🧵

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📈 3.8 million tonnes of fish and invertebrates were removed from Egyptian fisheries in the Mediterranean from 1920 to 2019.
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🌍 A new fellowship to enrich the training of a journalist from #Africa or the Middle East.

🥇 In honor of Mohamed Yehia's remarkable contributions to science journalism in Africa and MENA, @SpringerNature and @KSJatMIT created this fellowship to help reporters and editors from the region to further develop a successful career in science journalism.

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https://t.co/7l8QxZPPij

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📢 A study highlighted a simple new system to harvest water from the atmosphere could help Arab countries most affected by water stress.

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https://t.co/FItaNXUclY

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🔎 A group of researchers examined human remains from Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Turkey for bone injuries to know more about the patterns of human violence between 12,000 BC and 400 BC.

Read more about the violence in pre-history👇
https://t.co/EW6wtGVw4G

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📢 According to UN guidelines, each household has a right to access 50 to 100 liters of water, at a reasonable price, for personal and domestic use. In Jordan, the annual per capita share is less than 40 liters.

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💻 Green FinTech is the adoption of green finance practices that encourage investment in companies and programs that benefit the environment and promote sustainability.

💵 A study highlights the potential of green FinTech to promote sustainability.

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https://t.co/LC4MezVGOT

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👉 A study highlights the huge discrepancy between Africa’s share in the global burden of cardiovascular diseases and its meagre share of clinical trials in cardiology.

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https://t.co/RqHm3Rbyoz

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💀 A team of researchers used 3,539 sets of skeletal remains from the Middle East to reconstruct the early patterns of human violence ⚔️.

What do researchers know about violence patterns in pre-history in the Middle East?!

Find the answer 👇
https://t.co/LQkjox66fZ
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