Science and Technology

Dutch Motorcycle adventurers, who are traveling around the world in 80 days on their self-built electric motorcycle, have arrived in Iran.

Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Behrouz Kamalvandi announced that the country has started the exports of domestically-made radiopharmaceuticals to various countries, including some in Europe.

The first phase of Iran’s national information network was launched in a ceremony in Tehran on Sunday.

Scientific efforts by Iranian scholars in Pardis Technology Park paid off as they introduced MigriHeal which is said to be an absolute cure for migraine.

An Iranian private sector company launched the country’s first-ever cloud data center, partly funded by the government.

An Iranian claims that he can predict earthquakes 48 hours before they occur by examining the moves of some animals like spiders.

Iran’s Minister of Communications Mahmoud Vaezi said the time is ripe for mutual cooperation between the two countries in the fields of e-commerce and financial post services.

Iranian researchers at Ibn Sina Research Centre managed to produce cancer vaccine for prevention and treatment of the disease in animal phase.

The possession of easy to remember phone numbers has become a game for Iranian aristocrats who are ready to pay thousands of dollars to have them.

Vice-President for Science and Technology said the assessments of Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC) indicate a 20-fold increase in the volume of Iran’s nanotechnology economy in the past four years.

Mehdi Tale Masouleh, an Iranian scientist with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Robotics) from Laval University, Canada, takes us on a 2-hour tour of the world of Iranian robots.

A campaign has been recently started in Iran to block and ignore the netizens who abuse the Internet and insult other people, especially celebrities.

Iranian young mathematician Sara Zahedi has won the prestigious European Mathematical Society (EMS) Prize, the top honour for young European mathematicians awarded once every four years.

An advisor to Iranian Minister of Communications announced that specific training courses are designed to help families assimilate the culture of virtual space.

Based on a report by Spanish University of Granada scientific ranking site (SCImago), Iran ranks first in aerospace in the Middle East and 11th in the world, an Iranian official noted.

Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi referred to the recent leakage of personal information belonging to 20 million users of an Iranian cell phone operator, and noted that the database had been leaked out over 2 years ago.

In the field of dental sciences, following Spain and South Korea with more than 400 articles, Iran ranked 12 in the world with over 305 scientific articles in 2015.

Smart phone penetration in Iran has reached %120, insofar as two SIM cards have been issued for every single Iranian national.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has reinstated Iran’s license on two orbital slots, the Deputy Head of the Iranian Space Agency said on Tuesday June 28.

The software’s developer, elaborated on the cuneiform dictionary, saying, “The software is able to decipher and provide translation for the inscriptions which date far back to Achaemenid era into four languages of Persian, Kurdish, English and Arabic.”

Iranian space scientists have concluded research on the conceptual design of a home-grown manned spacecraft together with its carrier rocket, or launch vehicle.

The deputy director of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) has announced Iran’s ultimate goal as building indigenous satellites parallel to foreign models and placing them into geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO) within ten years.

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) has ratified Researchers’ Fund of Iran’s Deputy-Ministry for Science and Technology as Iran’s official representative body.

Chairman of University of Sciences and Technology Mohammad Akhbari urged universities to improve their ties with outstanding world scientific circles in a bid to further improve themselves.

A team led by Iranian professor Behrokh Khoshnevis is working on developing robots that will be able to construct buildings in a single day.