One of my favorite books has been 1001 Nights – also known as the Arabian Nights – which I reread every now and again even as an adult. The cliff-hanging tales full of magic and fantasy, told by ...

In certain fairy tales, when treasure is hidden from prying eyes and thieves in secret vaults, access is granted by the magic words: “Open sesame!” But it isn’t magic, of course, that unlocks the ...

Many people think of sesame seeds as a topping on hamburger buns at profitable global fast-food chains. But in fact the crop has traditionally been unprofitable and difficult to harvest because it ...

When the poor Persian woodcutter Ali Baba overheard the leader of a band of thieves stand before a cave and say “open, sesame,” it changed his life forever. Those magic words unlocked unimaginable ...

When Ali Baba uttered the magical phrase “Open sesame” in the book “One Thousand and One Nights,” which would later inspire the Disney cartoon “Aladdin,” he opened a cave that held many treasures. The ...

Equinom has developed a sesame variety suitable for mechanised harvesting, which product manager Oron Gar says could “dramatically change the global sesame production map”. The Israeli seed tech ...

The official opening of the SESAME synchrotron in Jordan on 16 May marked an important landmark for science in the Middle East. It is also set to become the world's first solar-powered accelerator. In ...