Uranus has been the butt of many jokes over the years. It likely won’t get any easier for the seventh planet in our solar system as a new report has confirmed that Uranus likely reeks of — what else? Bad gas. Researchers at the University of Oxford confirmed that the upper atmosphere of the planet […]

Researchers have discovered the first evidence that people can genetically adapt to deep diving, as shown by the unusually large spleens in indigenous people of Indonesia known as the “Sea Nomads,” a study said Thursday. The spear-fishing Bajau people regularly free-dive to depths of up to 230 feet (70 meters), with only weights and a […]

The effects of beverages such as coffee and tea are widely studied but still not clearly understood. Recently, the decision to have coffee carry cancer warning labels was met with mixed responses from experts and the general public. Adding another key finding to the on-going debate on how caffeine affects our health, new research states that […]

SpaceX postponed the launch of NASA’s new planet-hunting mission Monday in order to verify the Falcon 9 rocket’s navigation systems, the California-based company said. The next opportunity to blast off the $337 million satellite — which aims to advance the search for extraterrestrial life by scanning the skies for nearby, Earth-like planets — will be […]

Scientists were able to successfully remove a gene that caused Alzheimer’s disease from the human brain, possibly paving the way for a new kind of treatment against the dreaded illness. There have been numerous proposals on a possible treatment or cure for Alzheimer’s disease, including an enzyme inhibitor and frontal lobe stimulation. This one is different […]

Iran and Senegal will ink a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the course of the recent visit of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and senior managers in the field of nanotechnology to Senegal. Given the above issue, an expert-level session was held between Iranian and Senegalese officials in various fields especially nanotechnology. Ali Morteza […]

Equipped with harpoons and waterproof notebooks, Louis, Carlos and Antonis dive deep into the crystal clear waters of Konnos Bay in Cyprus on a mission to capture predatory lionfish. After colonising parts of the Atlantic on the east coast of the United States and the Caribbean, lionfish are now invading the Mediterranean. After two dives, […]

TEHRAN – Winners of the 13th RoboCup Iran Open competitions were announced on Saturday. Organized by the Iranian RoboCup Regional Committee and Qazvin Islamic Azad University, the RoboCup Iran Open 2018 was held at Tehran Permanent International Fairground from April 3 to 7. In Iran Open Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Outdoor league, MRL Rescue Team […]

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche on Friday said it has completed its acquisition of US oncology data leader Flatiron Health, a tech upstart that has runs a huge platform of cancer patient records. Under the deal, biotech leader Roche will buy Flatiron for $1.9 billion (1.6 billion euros), according to a statement from the Swiss group, […]

A Dutch court Friday sentenced a Chinese man to a year in jail for smuggling five rhino horns and four other horn objects worth about 500,000 euros ($613,000) in his luggage. The man was caught by customs officials at Schiphol airport in December, as he transited through Amsterdam on his way from South Africa to […]