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Qatar Museums is pleased to announce its participation in the second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale, scheduled to take place in Jeddah from January 25 to May 25, 2025. This year, Qatar Museums will contribute eight objects from The Museum of Is..
The Qatar Calendar House has announced that on the evening of August 19, 2024, the moon will reach its full phase at a distance of 362.2 thousand kilometers. This marks the fourth full moon of the summer, a phenomenon known as a 'blue supermoon.&..
A study by Sidra Medicine, a member of Qatar Foundation, on rare genetic diseases in a wide-ranging and diverse Middle Eastern cohort from Qatar, has been published in the prestigious Genome Medicine journal 1 . Titled Burden of Mendelian..
The Zebrafish Functional Genomics Facility at Sidra Medicine is at the forefront of investigating the origins and remedies for inherited disorders in children. They have embraced an innovative strategy to quickly pinpoint the reasons behind rare dise..
On August 28, 2023, the Qatar Calendar House revealed that the occurrence known as the Blue Moon takes place when the moon achieves the full moon phase twice within a single month according to the Gregorian calendar. In this scenario, the second full..
Curled up in a zoo in central Nicaragua, eyes alert and ears pricked, a puma is nursing her month-old snow-white cub. The tiny, pink-nosed puma at Thomas Belt Zoo in Juigalpa marks the Central American country's first albino puma to be born in..
Pakistan's foreign minister arrived in India on Thursday to take part in an international conference, the first official visit by a senior Pakistani official to the country's eastern neighbor since 2016. The South Asian neighbors hav..
Chinese scientists have identified a new gene, the deficiency of which may lead to a rare, life-threatening blood disease called hemophagocytic lymph histiocytosis (HLH). The illness typically occurs in early childhood, with stem cell transplantat..
A rare albino Galapagos giant tortoise made its public debut at a Swiss zoo on Friday. Two of the tortoises were born last month at the Tropiquarium in the western town of Servion as part of a programme to preserve the endangered species. One i..
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Qatar Secures Place Among the World's Top 10 Wealthiest Nations
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