An ice bridge that was part of a glacier at the tip of Argentina has collapsed in the dead of night, thwarting thousands of tourists who had hoped to watch the spectacle. The natural arch in Los Glaciares National Park in the Patagonia region came crashing down overnight Sunday during a storm while the park […]

 Astronomers have made the most precise measurement to date of the rate at which the universe is expanding. But there’s also some unsettling news: The new number remains at odds with independent measurements of the early universe’s expansion, which could mean that there is something unknown about the makeup of the universe. Is something unpredicted […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s Food and Drug Administration is pushing food producers and importers to label their products as containing or not containing ingredients which are derived from genetically engineered plants. In an official letter to Iran’s universities of medical sciences, Vahid Mofid, the caretaker of the department of food and beverages in Food and Drug […]

Rimac Automobili, the Croatian sports car manufacturer, has just unveiled the “evolution of the hypercar” – the Rimac C_Two – a pure electric GT hypercar as capable on track as it is crossing continents, according to Rimac. The brand built on the knowledge gleaned from the powerful Concept_One, made famous when Richard Hammond crashed it […]

A normal intake of vitamin D can reduce the risk of early death substantially in people with cardiovascular disease, a new study shows. A study from the University of Bergen (UiB) concludes that people who have suffered from cardiovascular disease, and have a normal intake of vitamin D, reduce their risk of morality as a […]

Antibiotic use is known to have a near-immediate impact on our gut microbiota and long-term use may leave us drug resistant and vulnerable to infection. Now there is mounting laboratory evidence that in the increasingly complex, targeted treatment of cancer, judicious use of antibiotics also is needed to ensure these infection fighters don’t have the […]

TEHRAN — The Iranian parliament (Majlis) has approved the allocation of $100 million from the national development fund for domestic production of two new vaccines, head of Pasteur Institute of Iran said, ISNA reported on Saturday. Pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines, which prevent pneumonia and severe diarrhea respectively, are planned to be manufactured domestically. “In order […]

For the first time, researchers have seen life rebounding in the world’s driest desert, demonstrating that it could also be lurking in the soils of Mars. Led by Washington State University planetary scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an international team studied the driest corner of South America’s Atacama Desert, where decades pass without any rain. Scientists have […]

A decade ago, a thick layer of ice covered the Collins Glacier on Antarctica’s King George Island. Now, the rocky landscape is visible to the naked eye, in a region that is both a victim of and a laboratory for climate change. “I had the opportunity to come here over a 15-year period, and even […]

 A delegation comprising Japanese companies active in manufacturing of medical devices will visit Iran in three months to assess opportunities for cooperation with the Iranian side. The announcement was made by CEO of the National Medical Devices Directorate, Reza Masaeli, on Saturday, who had paid a recent visit to Japan and held talks with a […]