Rainbows may be a trick of the eye, but they’re also based in fascinating optical physics. Here's how they work and why we ...

The brilliant medieval philosopher Ibn al-Haytham studied vision and optics and made major contributions to both. He examined the moon illusion and correctly noted that an object of fixed size wil ...

Ibn Al-Haytham embarks upon a quest to uncover ancient mysteries that would change our world forever. A journey of science from darkness into light.

In Cairo, in the 1010s, the Basra-born polymath Hasan Ibn al-Haytham wrote his masterwork, the Book of Optics, but it took two centuries for his insights to be translated beyond Arabic.

In algebra we use letters to represent unknown values or values that can change. Ibn al-Haytham was a scientist who carried out experiments. He studied how the human eye worked even invented an ...

The IDF says it carried out an airstrike against a group of Hamas operatives at a command room embedded within a former school in Gaza City a short while ago. According to the military, Hamas was ...

Muhammad ibn Sirin, working in what is today Iraq, composed a great Arabic work, Tabir al-Anam, on dream interpretation in the eighth century. Its main source was Oneirocritica—The ...

SASCO Palm Co., a subsidiary of Saudi Automotive Services Co. (SASCO) today, Oct. 16, the opening opening of a new branch in Riyadh. The new branch is located on Ibn Al-Haytham Road, Al-Khaleej ...

Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, sometimes known as the father of algebra, was one of the most influential thinkers of all time. He revolutionised algebra and his ...