According to researchers, we can acquire the vocabulary of a new language during distinct phases of slow-wave sleep. Sleeping time is sometimes considered unproductive time. This raises the question whether the time spent asleep could be used more productively — e.g. for learning a new language? To date sleep research focused on the stabilization and […]

The Iranian Parliament approved Saeed Namaki as the new Health Minister of the country in today’s vote of confidence session. The session was held with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in attendance who defended the proposed minister and also talked about Iran’s achievements in the health sector. At the end of the session, lawmakers approved Saeed […]

Experts warned that they have begun to see problems of weak AI or Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) that can perform specific tasks on a daily basis, and its use is growing rapidly. Artificial intelligence can play chess, drive a car and diagnose medical issues. Examples include Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, Tesla’s self-driving vehicles, and IBM’s Watson. […]

 The first Iranian accelerator for In Vitro Diagnostic Device (IVD) was inaugurated by a knowledge-based company during a ceremony on Saturday, Mehr reported. A medical device is an IVD if it is a reagent, calibrator, control material, kit, specimen receptacle, software, instrument, apparatus, equipment or system, whether used alone or in combination with other diagnostic […]

 Iranian First Vice-President Es’hagh Jahangiri said that If Iran had not operated in Syria, ISIL terrorists would have now formed a government and would have power in the region. He made the remarks Sunday at the 10th Farabi International Award in Tehran. Jahangiri went on to say that the United States has started an economic […]

An official at the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology said Iranian knowledge-based companies have been engaging more with other countries to expand cooperation and increase exports. Deputy head of development and resource management at the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology, Alireza Daliri, told Mehr News correspondent that the vice-presidency has plans for increasing the number […]

U.S. Fails to Create Crisis in Iran-IAEA Ties LONDON (Dispatches) – The U.S. has failed to create a crisis in Iran’s cooperation with the UN atomic agency which has repeatedly confirmed the peaceful nature of the country’s nuclear program, Bloomberg reports. Bloomberg said the U.S. was pushing to open “a special investigation” into Iran’s past […]

Researchers have understood little about how sleep disruptions drive the disease, but now by studying mice and people they found that sleep deprivation increases levels of the key Alzheimer’s protein tau. In follow-up studies in the mice, the research team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has shown that sleeplessness accelerates the […]

On the delicate and critical relations between the United States and Russia, we interviewed Professor Claudio Moffa, professor of History of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Teramo. Q: Shall we think of Russia collusion case as a mere political plot to destroy Trump or Russian interference in the […]

Tiny elastic robots were developed by scientists with the ability to change shape depending on their surroundings. Modeled after bacteria and fully biocompatible, these robots optimize their movements so as to get to hard-to-reach areas of the human body. They stand to revolutionize targeted drug delivery. One day we may be able to ingest tiny […]