TEHRAN — The 31st Tehran International Book Fair hosted a session on Sunday reviewing the publishing market in China. The session was attended by Alex Goh, the Oversea Business Manager at Sinolingua, a member of the China International Publishing Group (CIPG). Sinolingua is the first publisher in China to specialize in Chinese language instruction and […]

 A joint meeting was held Sun. between Iranian and South Korean companies active in the field of nanotechnology aimed at expanding cooperation and commercializing new products. The joint cooperation between Iran and South Korea took place in the form of a program called ‘Iran-South Korea Club’ in collaboration with the Korea Institute of Science and […]

SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon cargo ship splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, the company said, a few hours after leaving the International Space Station Saturday carrying 4,000 pounds (1,800 kilograms) of gear. “Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed, completing SpaceX’s third resupply mission to and from the @Space_Station with a flight-proven spacecraft,” tweeted the company […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party fared better than expected in local elections in England, results on Friday showed, in her first test at the polls since losing her parliamentary majority last year. The centre-right party held on to key London councils despite a big push by the Labor main opposition, which failed to […]

TEHRAN – On Monday, Private sectors from Iran and South Korea discussed joint projects in nanotechnology during a meeting at the venue of Iran’s National Library and Archive. The sides plan to establish a joint club to expand cooperation in the field of nanotechnology, the Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council announced in a press release, ISNA […]

Scientists have developed a low-cost device -shaped like a birdhouse- that could help provide drinking water to people affected by natural disasters. The idea of using energy from the sun to evaporate and purify water is ancient. The Greek philosopher Aristotle reportedly described such a process more than 2,000 years ago. Now, researchers are bringing […]

Britain and the United States on Monday launched a research programme billed “the most detailed and extensive examinations of a massive Antarctic glacier ever undertaken” to gauge how quickly it could collapse. Teams from Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) will visit the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica […]

In a study of adults with rheumatoid arthritis, those who were severely obese experienced more rapidly progressing disability than patients who were overweight. This was not explained by features of their arthritis, including the amount of inflammation in their joints. In the Arthritis Care & Research study, weight loss after enrollment was also associated with […]

TEHRAN – The Iranian Judiciary spokesman confirmed on Sunday that an Imperial College professor has been detained on security charges. “Accusations are security-related and he is under detention,” Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei said in a press conference. He refrained to give more details. Abbas Edalat, a British-Iranian citizen and a professor of computer sciences and […]

TEHRAN — Iranian knowledge enterprises exported products valued at 450 million dollars during the past Iranian calendar year which ended on March 20, the vice president for science and technology announced on Saturday. Sourena Sattari made the announcement on the sidelines of a ceremony arranged to sign an agreement between the Presidential Office for Science […]