According to the head of Association of Entrepreneurs of Fars province, the largest laboratory of Middle East will open at Shiraz University with the help of foreign finance. Ahmad Ghoreyshi-nejad said Sunday that so far 125 million euros of foreign finance have been absorbed in the province, which will be used to found the largest […]

When it comes to intelligence, environment and education matter more than we think. Those are the findings of Rutgers University psychologists Louis Matzel and Bruno Sauce, based on an integrative review of recent studies on the nature of human intelligence. Their study is published in the December issue of the Psychological Bulletin, a journal of […]

Flu is sweeping the United States, killing at least 37 children and sending the most people nationwide in search of medical care since the 2009 “swine flu” pandemic, US officials said Friday. This year, the most common strain of influenza is H3N2, and nearly every state has been hit hard, said the US Centers for […]

A groundbreaking quantum physics professor was named “Australian of the Year” on Thursday for her work heralded as ushering in a new era for computer science. British-born Michelle Yvonne Simmons, 50, and her team at the University of New South Wales created the world’s first transistor made from a single atom, the award announcement stated. […]

People who get the flu may face a six-fold higher risk of heart attack in the week following infection, said a study released on Wednesday, that bolsters the need for widespread vaccinations against the flu. The risk of heart attack — or myocardial infarction — is particularly acute in older adults, said the report in […]

TEHRAN – Overeating has turned to a serious challenge for Iranians causing 60 percent of the country’s population aging above 18 to suffer from obesity, said the deputy health minister Alireza Raeisi, Fars reported on Friday. As far as gender is concerned, women outnumber men in this regard, said the official, adding, “This is directly […]

TEHRAN– Pinching your nose while clamping your mouth shut to contain a forceful sneeze isn’t a good idea, warn doctors. Pinching your nose while clamping your mouth shut to contain a forceful sneeze isn’t a good idea, warn doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports. One young man managed to rupture the back of his […]

TEHRAN – A new discovery is challenging science’s longstanding beliefs regarding the cellular makeup of the brain, report scientists. A discovery made by Junhwan Kim, PhD, assistant professor at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, is challenging science’s longstanding beliefs regarding the cellular makeup of the brain. This breakthrough was outlined in a study recently […]

TEHRAN – The sun’s core rotates nearly four times faster than its surface, an international team of astronomers found. Scientists had assumed before that the core was rotating like a merry-go-round at about the same speed as the surface. “The most likely explanation is that this core rotation is left over from the period when […]

Elevated levels of the inflammation marker CRP in the blood is an underlying cause of the loss of muscle mass in elderly persons, according to a new study. We start losing muscle mass at the age of 40. We are talking about some ten per cent of the total muscle mass for each ten-year period […]