Iranian President Hassan Rouhani participated in a ceremony at Tehran University to mark the start of the academic year. The ceremony hosts Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mansour Gholami, Minister of Health and Medical Education Seyyed Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi, Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari, and a group of university and student figures. Meanwhile, some university heads, […]

 Iranian filmmaker Hamid Jafari’s documentary “The Rock” has won the Youth Jury Prize at the 17th Baikal International Film Festival on the theme of people and environment. The film is about a woman in southern Iran who goes to the mountain by the village every day, breaks up rocks, puts the stones on a truck […]

 Scientists are trying to learn more about the mechanisms behind cerebral disorders by mapping Chinese people’s brains to get a better understanding of how the influence of the Chinese language affects cognitive performance. Hospitals and universities in Shanghai and Shenzhen, Guangdong province, are the main participants in the joint study commissioned by the Shanghai Research […]

Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari is heading a high-ranking delegation comprised of officials and heads of 45 knowledge-based companies to Kenya and Uganda in Central East Africa. Sattari is accompanied by representatives from ministries of health, science, foreign affairs, as well as Trade Promotion Organization, Export Development Bank, and heads of 45 knowledge-based companies […]

An implantable, biofuel-powered sensor was developed by researchers that runs on sugar and can monitor a body’s biological signals to detect, prevent and diagnose diseases. A cross-disciplinary research team led by Subhanshu Gupta, assistant professor in WSU’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, developed the unique sensor, which, enabled by the biofuel cell, harvests […]

 It’s that time of year again when the campaigners of truth and justice, cutting across ethno-sectarian and ideological lines, rally to pay homage to the ‘master of the martyrs’, a 7th century revolutionary historical figure who redefined the ideas of resistance and resilience on the desert plains of Karbala (Iraq) 1400 years ago. The uprising […]

 Iran has submitted the acclaimed drama “No Date, No Signature” to the 91st Academy Awards in the best foreign language film category despite calls for the Farabi Cinema Foundation to boycott the prestigious cinematic competition over Washington’s withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Directed and written by Vahid Jalilvand, the movie is about Dr. […]

A novel catalyst based on semiconductor nanoparticles has now been shown to facilitate all the reactions needed for ‘artificial photosynthesis’. In the light of global climate change, there is an urgent need to develop efficient ways of obtaining and storing power from renewable energy sources. The photocatalytic splitting of water into hydrogen fuel and oxygen […]

A novel University of Otago study has highlighted the value of sleep as a “promising” way to counter an epidemic of overweight and obesity among New Zealand children. One in three New Zealand children is overweight or obese when they start school, research team co-leader Prof Rachael Taylor says. The parents of half the 800 […]

 Shireen Tahmaasb Hunter, a professor of political science at Georgetown University, told MNA that that “Europe wants to keep Iran committed to JCPOA, and thus makes some vague promises, but it is not willing to give Iran serious help.” “It was recently reported that the EU will offer 18 million euros for some projects in […]