TEHRAN  – The Big Bang theory is the best known and most accepted explanation for the beginning and evolution of the universe, but it is hardly a consensus among scientists. Brazilian physicist Juliano Cesar Silva Neves is part of a group of researchers who dare to imagine a different origin. In a study recently published […]

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 […]

Differences in intelligence have so far mostly been attributed to differences in specific brain regions. However, are smart people’s brains also wired differently to those of less intelligent persons? A new study supports this assumption. In intelligent persons, certain brain regions are more strongly involved in the flow of information between brain regions, while other […]

TEHRAN– Professor of political science, Istanbul University Nuray Mert, believes the US and its allies failed to fulfill their regional aims to disintegrate the Middle East. After recent meeting between foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey and Russia in Antalya, the leaders of the three countries met at a crucial presidential summit in Sochi on Nov. […]

 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– The 2017 Highly Cited Researchers List recently released by Clarivate Analytics has named seven Iranians among the world’s most impactful scientific researchers. Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in trusted insights and analytics that accelerate the pace of innovation, has released its publication of its annual Highly Cited Researchers list among which are the names of seven […]

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- In a Tuesday meeting between Austria’s minister for science, research, and economy and the visiting head of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA), the two sides discussed expansion of bilateral economic ties, IRNA reported. During the meeting, referring to Austria’s ex-president’s visit to Iran after implementation of Iran’s nuclear deal in […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Ministry in a statement described the collapse of Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL) self-proclaimed caliphate as ‘an important chapter’ in West Asia developments materialized thanks to resistance fighters’ courage. “It seems another important chapter has opened in the history of the vulnerable region of West Asia with the cooperation, […]

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 […]