“Related experts and managers are working day and night to finish this job as soon as possible,” said Salehi while addressing a summer course on quantum sciences and technology in Tehran, according to Press TV.

The official said Iran had compiled its own roadmap for development of quantum technologies, saying the document would come into force once it is ratified by the parliament and other related government bodies.

He said Iran was willing to keep its pace with a fast-growing quantum science in the world, saying expert groups had been formed in the AEOI to focus on various fields where quantum sciences are increasingly applied, including in communication, imaging, and in making new computers and sensors.

Salehi said his organization had also launched a public information campaign about quantum physics and its role in the future of the world, saying textbooks were being prepared for schools and universities with a special focus on quantum mechanics.

He said a successful entanglement experiment for photons carried out by AEOI scientists last summer had hugely boosted the morale in the field.

The senior official said that a large research center focused on new fields of science like the stem cells and quantum physics will be built by the AEOI in a near future.

Salehi said Iranian scientists could replicate the “quick” progress achieved in the field of nuclear technology in the country over the past years.

“The quantum technology is moving so fast that if we don’t act we’ll regret it,” said the official.

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The technology-enhanced garment – dubbed ‘phyjamas’ – will be presented at the Ubicomp 2019 conference in London, this week.

A paper detailing the work, oversaw by Professor Trisha L. Andrew and scientist Deepak Ganesan, will be published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, according to the report.

“The challenge we faced was how to obtain useful signals without changing the aesthetics or feel of the textile,” Andrew told Daily Mail.

Ganesan adds, “Our insight was that even though sleepwear is worn loosely, there are several parts of such a textile that are pressed against the body due to our posture and contact with external surfaces. This includes pressure exerted by the torso against a chair or bed, pressure when the arm rests on the side of the body while sleeping, and light pressure from a blanket over the sleepwear.”

“Such pressured regions of the textile are potential locations where we can measure ballistic movements caused by heartbeats and breathing and these can be used to extract physiological variables.”

The team has designed a new fabric-based pressure sensor and combined that with a triboelectric sensor – one activated by a change in physical contact – to develop a distributed sensor suite that could be integrated into loose-fitting clothing like pajamas.

They also developed data analytics to fuse signals from many points that took into account the quality of the signal coming in from each location. The authors report that this combination allowed them to detect physiological signals across many different postures.

They performed multiple user studies in both controlled and natural settings and showed that they can extract heartbeat peaks with high accuracy, breathing rate with less than one beat per minute error, and perfectly predict sleep posture.

“We expect that these advances can be particularly useful for monitoring elderly patients, many of whom suffer from sleep disorders,'” says Andrew.

This work was enhanced by Ganesan and Andrew’s affiliation with UMass Amherst’s Institute of Applied Life Sciences (IALS), which focuses on translating life science research into products that improve human health.

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“The first issue to consider is a suitable spectrum for the 5G network that can cover Gigabit internet speeds…and in three months, we will have drawn up a roadmap for obtaining the 5G technology,” he said.

“The global predictions show that 5G will roll out in 2020 and hit the mainstreams by 2022. Therefore, our working group is focused on drawing up a business plan which is set to be finalized with cooperation from mobile operators in the country,” he added.

“In three months, we will have provided the condition for experts in the field to learn all there is about the 5G technology…and by 2020, we will have begun executing our action plan,” he said.

“We will have no limitations in providing the required bandwidth for 5G,” the deputy ICT minister reassured.

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“Achieving beneficial scientific progress for the country is possible through a revolutionary, Islamic-based approach, and elite youths must set the primary goal for reaching the frontiers of science and technology and pushing them forward,” said the Leader.

“Despite the efforts that have been made in the scientific and technological movement after the Islamic Revolution, especially in the past twenty years, we still have a long way to go, and the most important task of the elite generation is to push forward the boundaries of knowledge in addition to continuing their successful scientific path,” Ayatollah Khamenei stressed.

Refereeing to Iran’s great achievements and top ranks in the field of nanotechnology, he noted, “it is now expected that elite and next-generation youth would discover hundreds of such fields as nanoscience as well as unknown scientific phenomena in areas such as biotechnology. They should not be satisfied with the mere continuation of the scientific path.”

Elsewhere, Ayatollah Khamenei pointed to Iran’s winning the title of 2019 FIVB U21 Men’s World Championship, saying, “thanks to God, our youth volleyball players were able to turn into a source of pride and stand at the top of the world. This is a very valuable achievement that made people happy.”

He went on to say that gaining this trophy with an Iranian coach is so important. “I have always believed that it befits the country’s sports teams would have Iranian coaches.”

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Phonons have previously been impossible to measure because traditional microphones are not nearly sensitive enough to pick them up. A microphone works by detecting when a sound wave interacts with a membrane, but the phonons are so small that they can’t be detected individually due to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

Instead of relying on indirect measurement of sound waves, the scientists built a device which measures the energy of phonons directly using minuscule resonators which act like mirrors for sound. The device can trap the photons and measure the vibrations they cause, with different energy levels corresponding to different numbers of phonons.

The device is described in a paper in Nature, and could be a step towards the creation of a new type of quantum computer. The ability to detect small packets of sound could allow for devices which encode information using sound energy, allowing the storage of massive amounts of data in a small machine.

A phonon quantum computer could be even more compact and efficient than a quantum computer which uses photons, or particles of light, as phonons are easier to manipulate than photons. If scientists can create a quantum computer using phonons, it could store more information in a smaller space than using photons.

“Right now, people are using photons to encode these states. We want to use phonons, which brings with it a lot of advantages,” said the lead author of the paper, Amir Safavi-Naeini, an Iranian assistant professor of applied physics at Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences. “Our device is an important step toward making a ‘mechanical quantum mechanical’ computer.”

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Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real-world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information.

After installing the application for the 3D flashcards, first-grade students will be able to learn the Persian alphabet in a fun and interactive atmosphere, he added.

He also announced plans for the mass production of the product, and selling it to some clients in East Asia, Qatar and Italy, who have already voiced interest in the product.

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He went on to say that researchers of the two countries have taken launch of the following plans into consideration, the most important of which are as follows: setting up working group for scientific and international interactions with Germany, organizing joint scientific committee between Iran and Germany, planning for organizing Iran Science Day in Germany, defining 12 projects in national level among Iranian and German scientists and supporting scientific interactions between university lecturers and researchers.

“Iran Science Day” in Germany is an annual conference for the development and promotion of scientific ties with Germany, he said, adding, “launching a peer-to-peer system, determining the most important fields of scientific interaction, paving suitable ways for holding specialized bilateral scientific workshops and also creating motivation for fulfilling international industrial projects are of the main objectives of the annual conference.”

Shah-Hosseini revealed the visit of a 60-member delegation of Iranian universities to Germany in the course of organizing Iran Science Day in this European country.

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 A research team in Iran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute and Alzahra University has synthesized a novel nano-catalyst which can help the industry replace chemical solvents with water.

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A research team at Isfahan University in cooperation with a Japanese team designed a nanocarrier to deliver anti-cancer drugs.

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 For the very first time Iranian researchers at Amirkabir University have managed to build a nuclear fusion plasma confinement device by relying on the use of a completely domestic technology.

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