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How Abu Dhabi's salt domes could help the UAE reach its net-zero targets
Sedimentary rock structures are built for hydrogen and hydrocarbon storage, scientists believe
Jaws legacy: When people, not sharks, are at fault for attacks
Study highlights how human behaviour can provoke bites
How UAE street cats are crossing continents for a new lease of life
The National's Daniel Bardsley is one of many foreign adopters offering a welcoming home to four-legged friends from the Emirates
How Emirati Genome Project can lead to advances in personalised medicine
Tailoring treatments more precisely to the patient is a vital way in which medicine will improve in coming decades
How anti-anxiety drugs that have polluted waterways are breeding anti-social salmon
Research highlights the impacts on nature of pharmaceutical pollution, with hundreds of substances ending up in rivers and seas
After dire wolves, which other extinct species could be resurrected?
US biotech company Colossal aims to recreate other animals – including the woolly mammoth
Eco-friendly app developed by Abu Dhabi students scoops $12,500 Middle East Earth Prize
The EcoMind Academy app is already being trialled in UAE schools
Here's what Dh1 million gets you today in Dubai's boomtime property market
We take a look at how the emirate's surging market matches up to other cities worldwide
Uncovering Arabia's Bronze Age 'tomb boom'
Research reveals how burial structures became bigger and more elaborate from 3000 BCE
Has our cultural melting pot 'done the needful' and created 'Gulf English'?
A new book looks at whether a dialect unique to the Gulf has emerged, influenced by Arabic, many forms of English and a number of foreign languages
Make-up's ancient history unravelled in Omani shells
Shells containing green and black pigments have been found at the Salut archaeological site
Dubai properties deliver more for your million
How far does your investment go compared with other cities around the world?
How do you rank countries? It's about more than just wealth
Periodic Table of States is described as being a more scientific way of analysing countries' strengths and weaknesses
From frankincense trees to fungi, thousands of fauna and flora face extinction
Frankincense trees in Yemen are among plants that could be lost
UAE study warns of threat to 'neglected' wild crops key to climate change fight
Genetic diversity in wild plants should be conserved, researchers say, as it could be transferred into crops so that they are more resistant to the effects of changing weather