TEHRAN — Azerbaijani tar virtuoso Ramiz Guliyev is scheduled to hold master classes in Tehran a few days ahead of his concerts at Vahdat Hall in the city. The master classes will be held at the Culture and Art Applied Science University on December 16 and 17, the director of the academy, Susan Taqipur, said […]

Iran and Spain reached an agreement to enter into scientific cooperation on advanced technologies. The first meeting of the joint commission of economic collaborations between Iran and Spain was held on the 4th and 5th of December 2017 in the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness of Spain, with the representative of the Vice-Presidency for […]

Astronomers have spotted the most distant supermassive black hole ever seen in our Universe — a behemoth that’s nearly a billion times more massive than our Sun. This is no ordinary black hole either, but an active one known as a quasar that’s surrounded by a super bright, highly energetic disk of swirling gas and […]

TEHRAN – Italian maestro Damiano Giuranna who is the conductor of the World Youth Orchestra said that he was impressed by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s recent remarks on the need for unity among Muslims in the world. Giuranna made the comment in a meeting with the musicians of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra in Tehran, Iran’s […]

TEHRAN– Iran’s Vice-President Jahangiri said Mon. that Tehran expects the European Union to take a firmer stance against US violation of the nuclear deal and prevent any attempts at undermining this international agreement. Es’hagh Jahangiri made the remarks in a meeting with Hungary’s Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga on Monday in Tehran, adding “the Islamic Republic […]

Officials from Iran and Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding on academic and research cooperation in cognitive sciences. The cooperation agreement was signed between Kamal Kharrazi, secretary of the department on development of cognitive science and technology at the Vice-President’s Office for Science and Technology Affairs, and the representative of CAPES, a foundation within Brazil’s […]

TEHRAN  – A new 2.3-gigapixel image of the Fornax Galaxy Cluster – one of the largest images ever released by European Southern Observatory (EOS) – might make you feel small. Astronomers working with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile obtained an unparalleled detailed image of the Fornax Galaxy Cluster.  It […]

Scientists have taken another step towards putting two additional letters in the dictionary of life to work. Researchers at the Scripps Institute have engineered cells to successfully transcribe a brand new artificial DNA base pair and make a never-before-seen protein with it. The breakthrough is part of an effort to expand the library of amino acids […]

TEHRAN — Earthquake preparedness in the city of Tehran is woefully ‘low’ and ‘unacceptable’, Ismail Najjar, head of the state-run National Disaster Management Organization said on Thursday. Tehran is perched between no less than three major fault-lines. The Mosha, the Tehran, and the Rey fault lines are each on their own enough to bring down […]

TEHRAN – Mustafa Science and Technology Foundation (MSTF) hosted a press conference to announce the laureates of the 2017 Mustafa Prize on Tuesday. The actual prize ceremony of Mustafa is set to kick off on December 1. During the press conference at the Institute of Culture, Art and Architecture in Tehran, Mahdi Safarinia; President of […]