TEHRAN – Former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry has condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to decertify the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers, stressing that the agreement is working as expected. “Important to note the simple things – the Iran nuclear deal is working, doing precisely what it was set up to […]

Art and Experience Cinematic Group, in collaboration with German Embassy in Iran, will show six German feature films as well as a documentary for a week in Tehran, Kerman and Shiraz.According to the website of Art and Experience Cinematic group (Aecinema.ir), Germany Film Week will be inaugurated on Oct. 29 at the Iranian Artists Forum in […]

China will complete the first phase of its massive virtual reality park in December.The virtual reality sci-fi theme park is under completion in Guiyang, the capital city of Guizhou Province in southwest China.Slaying dragons, going on UFO trips and communicating with aliens are just some of the VR activities planned for the theme park, Daily […]

TEHRAN- Researchers have designed a novel protein-sugar vaccine candidate that, in an animal model, stimulated an immune response against sugars that form a protective shield around HIV. The molecule could one day become part of a successful HIV vaccine. Researchers at the University of Maryland and Duke University have designed a novel protein-sugar vaccine candidate […]

TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s nominees for the two remaining cabinet posts were approved by the country’s parliament. The parliament on Sunday afternoon ended debates on the credentials and backgrounds of Reza Ardakanian and Mansour Gholami, who had been nominated for the positions of the energy minister and the minister of science, research, and […]

TEHRAN – Iran’s parliament began vetting President Hassan Rouhani’s nominees for the two remaining cabinet posts on Sunday, two months after all his proposed ministerial picks except one managed to win the vote of confidence from the lawmakers. Intensive talks are underway in the parliament about the credentials and backgrounds of Reza Ardakanian and Mansour […]

TEHRAN– Five Iranian satellites developed by the local universities and science institutions are awaiting launch, an official announced, saying one of them, manufactured by Sharif University of Technology, will go into orbit within the next five months. In comments on Tuesday, Mansour Kabganian, secretary of a working group tasked with devising a road map to […]

‘The Fountain’, a 2006 science-fiction written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, is to be screened at Qolhak Cineplex on Oct. 25 at 9:30 p.m..It narrates the story of a man, Tom (played by Hugh Jackman) who travels through time on a quest for immortality, to save the woman (Rachel Weisz) he loves.As a 16th-century conquistador, […]

TEHRAN – A new study found that daily aspirin therapy was significantly associated with a reduced risk in hepatitis B related liver cancer. A new study presented this week at The Liver Meeting– held by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases — found that daily aspirin therapy was significantly associated with a […]

TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani submitted the names of his nominees for the two remaining cabinet posts to the parliament two months after all his proposed ministerial picks except one managed to win the vote of confidence from the lawmakers. In a letter to Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Saturday, Rouhani proposed Reza Ardakanian […]