The Arabian Peninsula and the sky have always had an unusual relationship. People here looked up because they had to, long ...

Last month, I was sitting in a coffee shop near Abu Dhabi’s corniche when a wealth manager I know slid his phone across the table. An order ticket for a US-listed Ethereum ETF appeared on the screen; ...

Europa has captured our interest in a way that is almost unyielding. Astronomers, science fiction authors, and astrobiologists have been returning to this tiny, brilliant moon of Jupiter for decades, ...

A third-year associate is staring at a contract that she did not draft somewhere on the fourteenth floor of a Midtown Manhattan office. Software completed the initial pass. Yes, she is marking it up ...

Diplomatic meetings on artificial intelligence have a peculiar quality. The coffee is always too strong, the rooms are always too cold, and somewhere in the back, a researcher is discreetly telling a ...

A dead star the size of a small city spinning seven hundred times per second has an almost ridiculous quality. The mind rejects your attempts to visualize it. However, that is precisely what one of ...

The air outside Abu Dhabi was heavy at forty-one degrees on the day Khazna’s newest hall went online. It was the kind of afternoon when even shaded asphalt felt like a stovetop. However, inside the ...

In southern Mississippi, there is a section of pine forest where rockets have been tested since the Apollo era. Nowadays, the trees occasionally catch fire. A grass fire was reported to the local fire ...

Uranus seemed to be the planet that astronomers courteously overlooked for the majority of my life. After Voyager 2 passed by in 1986 and captured its hazy blue-green image, the world silently moved ...

When I first heard a banker in Dubai explain his morning routine, he laughed, but it wasn’t a true laugh. He claimed that when he opens the dashboard, eight hundred suspicious transactions that appear ...

After some time, you begin to recognize a certain type of building in DIFC. Glass-walled towers with the subtle signage of a law firm or hedge fund, but half of them now contain something more modern.