Face recognition. Fingerprints. Now there is also talk about voice recognition but thieves may come up with ways to spoof voice authentication. The system was designed by researchers at the State University of Florida in Tallahassee. The discomfort with voice as an authentication method in the past has been an awareness that identity thieves can […]

Iranian cyclist Shahab Jadidoleslam was handed a four-year ban by Iran National Anti-Doping Agency after testing positive for a banned substance. Jadidoleslam has been tested for human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG). Human chorionic gonadotropin is banned from use in competitive sport. Jadidoleslam is ineligible from all sports from July 22, 2017 until July 21, 2021.

 Dark matter and dark energy may not actually exist, according to a study which suggests that accelerating expansion of the universe and the movement of the stars in the galaxies can be explained without these concepts. For close to a century, researchers have hypothesized that the universe contains more matter than can be directly observed, […]

TEHRAN – Iran will soon open three more sales offices in China for the sale of domestically-produced nanotechnology products, Head of the Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC) Saeed Sarkar said Wednesday. INIC Secretary-General Saeed Sarkar told Mehr News correspondent on Wednesday that the country plans to open three more nano product sales offices in China, which would […]

TEHRAN — Some 833 intellectual elite expats returned to Iran over the past two-and-a-half year, deputy director of the National Elites Foundation for international affairs has said. The state-run foundation which was founded in 2005 launched an international center to exploit the potential of brilliant Iranian expatriates since 2013, ISNA news agency quoted Ali-Morteza Birang […]

Centuries of study have yielded many theories about how the brain gives rise to human intelligence. Some think it arises from a single region or neural network. Others argue that metabolism is key. A new article makes the case that the brain’s dynamic properties — how it is wired but also how that wiring shifts […]

TEHRAN — Iranian students won the third place at the 11th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) held in, Phuket, Thailand, on November 12 to 21. By winning one gold, three silver and one bronze medals, Iran came in third place after Thailand and the U.S. among the 45 countries participating in the event, […]

Engineers have developed a new and cost-effective catalyst to recycle two of the main causes behind climate change — carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). In a study published by the Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, scientists have described how they created an advanced nickel-based catalyst strengthened with tin and ceria, and used it to transform CO2 and […]

A small group of scientists has unilaterally decided to send messages to any advanced alien civilization living in a star system 12.4 light years (over 70 trillion miles) away. The message, which includes pieces of music, math and technology, was transmitted to the GJ273 system over three days in October and includes instructions about how […]

TEHRAN — In a nutshell ‘Akhlat’ are liquid humors which are formed in the liver and gastrointestinal system subsequent to the digestion. The four humors including blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm, will provide the cells and the body organs with necessary nutrients. The liver is the body’s ‘kitchen’. The food will be processed […]