NASA on Friday said the space agency and SpaceX are targeting to undock the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission from the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than 5 pm ET (2200 GMT) on Wednesday, 14th January, pending weather conditions.
NASA said it will bring its Crew-11 back to Earth early from the ISS
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have synthesised for the first time a complex fungal compound known as verticillin A, discovered more than 50 years ago and long viewed as a potential anti-cancer agent.
Verticillin A has a highly intricate structure that has made it far more difficult to synthesise than
At six o’clock on Friday evening, January 9, 2026, a new virtual session will convene as part of the Creative Encounters on the Silk Road series, opening the new year with an open dialogue on children’s and young adult literature—one of the literary fields most deeply connected to shaping awareness and nurturing imagination.
The year 2025 was rich in movement, travel, and multi-directional cultural work—a year in which geography intersected with creativity, and personal experience converged with public cultural action, grounded in a firm belief in the role of the word, art, and knowledge in building bridges among peoples.
Major Journeys of the Year:
Ras Al Khaimah ushered in 2026 with a 15-minute New Year’s Eve spectacle of drones and fireworks, setting a new Guinness World Records title for the largest aerial display of a phoenix formed by multirotor drones.
The centrepiece of the celebration was a large-scale drone performance that transformed the night sky into a series of
