Prominent Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mojtaba Mir-Tahmasb have finished shooting the documentary ‘Lady Touran’ and it is now in the post-production stage.The movie pictures part of the life of Touran Mirhadi, the veteran expert in children’s literature, who died last November, aged 89. The film seeks to feature Mirhadi’s characteristics as a devoted teacher […]

TEHRAN  – It was a faint signal, but it told of one of the most violent acts in the universe, and it would soon reveal secrets of the cosmos, including how gold was created. Forbes estimated that the collision created an estimated $10 octillion in gold, which is $10 billion, billion, billion. What they witnessed […]

Researchers from the LIGO-Virgo collaboration announced the first detection of gravitational waves caused by the collision of two neutron stars. The gravitational wave source was dubbed GW170817, and the event was the first time that a source of gravitational waves corresponded to observations in the electromagnetic spectrum, including visible light. This is the first time that researchers had […]

TEHRAN– An Ohio State University’s research team led by Iranian researcher Nima Ghalichechian is designing “hovering” antennas that could boost cellphone signals and beam images straight to televisions. Nima Ghalichechian, an Iranian assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering, is leading a team of researchers at Ohio State University’s ElectroScience Laboratory (ESL) into designing “hovering” or suspended […]

TEHRAN – Iran welcomes developing technician, skill cooperation with Hungary, said Zia Hashemi, the Iranian Acting Minister of Science, Research and Technology, according to IRNA. The Iranian acting minister of science, research and technology made the remarks on Sunday in a meeting with Deputy Minister of Human Capacities of Hungary László Palkovics. The Iranian official […]

TEHRAN – If the standard supplementation of 400 IUs of vitamin D is increased to 800 IUs daily there are reductions in the number of premature and preterm babies with extremely low bone density, new research has found. Results of a University of Nebraska Medical Center study published in the Oct. 10 issue of PLOS […]

The 20th commemoration ceremony of Hafez, renowned Iranian poet, will be held at the Tehran branch of Kharazmi University on October 11. During the ceremony, sponsored jointly by the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, Society of Hafez Fans, and the Faculty of Literature and Human Science of Kharazmi University, university instructors and scholars will speak […]

The 2017 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to American economist Richard H. Thaler from University of Chicago “for his contributions to behavioral economics”.Thaler, 72, has incorporated psychologically realistic assumptions into analyses of economic decision-making. By exploring the consequences of limited rationality, social preferences, and lack of self-control, he has shown how these […]

An international conference on Ibrahim Muteferrika (1670-1745), an Ottoman diplomat, polymath, economist and pubisher of Hungarian descent, known for introducing printing to Turkish domains, is being organized by Turkey and Iran. Book House Institute in Iran and the Institute of Yunus Emreh based in Ankara are organizing the meeting, according to the website of Book […]

TEHRAN – New research is underway that could help scientists combat the most lethal of cancers: pancreatic cancer. Tal Danino, a professor at the Data Science Institute, is conducting research that could help scientists combat the most lethal of cancers: pancreatic cancer. In a recent study, working with a team of researchers, Danino demonstrated that […]