Science and Technology

Iranian researchers design cheaper, more effective pipeline valves

Iranian researchers have designed three-stage valves for fluids pipelines that are 50 percent cheaper to manufacture and are five times quicker to shut down the flow, when there is an impact.

Mealworm beetles, a nutritious food source for livestock, poultry and aquatic animals

A group of Iranian researchers have developed a nutritious food product to serve as livestock inputs through the semi-industrial breeding of yellow mealworm beetles. According to them, mealworm beetles were authorized for consumption by the European Food Safety Authority back in 2003 due to the rich levels of protein and unsaturated fat in them.

Iran preparing to launch new satellite into orbit in autumn

A senior Iranian space official says the country has “special plans” for developing telecommunication satellites designed to be placed in high-altitude orbits, and that one of the spacecraft under construction will be launched this autumn.

Iran, Russia expanding ICT ties

The Iranian minister of information and communications technology says Iran and Russia are set to take the cooperation between their knowledge-based ICT companies to a whole new level.

Iran launches its biggest solar panel production line

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi unveils the country's biggest solar panel production line in Markazi Province, in central Iran.

Uzbek tech firms welcome Iran’s scientific capabilities; cooperation to continue in the form of joint projects

A business meeting between Iranian creative and knowledge-based companies and technology firms and businessmen of Uzbekistan is underway with the aim of helping Iranian-made products enter the markets of this country and beyond in Eurasia.

Iran’s VP describes Uzbekistan as an intact market for Iranian-made products

Iranian Vice-president for Scientific and Technological Affairs Sorena Sattari has travelled to Uzbekistan at the head of a 40-member delegation involving people from knowledge-based companies.

100 Iranian-made products to be showcased in Uzbekistan; technological exchanges between two countries to expand

The Iranian vice-president for science and technology has departed Iran for Uzbekistan at the head of a delegation of Iranian knowledge-based and creative companies to expand the scientific and technological exchanges between the two countries.

Sattari: Knowledge-based, creative firms serve as a new bridge facilitating Iran-Uzbekistan tech exchanges

Iranian Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari held talks with Uzbekistan’s Minister of Innovative Development Ibrahim Abdurakhmanov, emphasizing the need for the expansion of technological exchanges between the two states by benefiting from the capacities of knowledge-based and creative companies.

Uzbekistan’s vice prime minister hosts Sattari; inter-university exchanges between Iran, Uzbekistan to witness a boost

During his visit to Uzbekistan, Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari held a meeting with Uzbekistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade Jamshid Kuchkarov for talks on the expansion of scientific and technological relations between the two countries.

Iran’s team crowned at Intl. Biology Olympiad

Iran’s team grabbed four gold medals in the 33rd International Biology Olympiad in Armenia, taking the first place in the competition.

Uzbekistan-Iran Science And Innovation Forum to be held in Tashkent

A high-ranking delegation of Iranian science and tech officials, accompanied by 40 knowledge-based companies, will be visiting Tashkent next week at the official invitation of Uzbekistan’s authorities as part of efforts by the two countries to take effective steps toward the development of scientific and technological cooperation.

Iranian-made kits enable visual detection of impurity in liquid medicines

An Iranian knowledge-based firm has designed and developed a kit that enables the visual detection of impurity in liquid medicines, in an achievement that rids the country of the need to import the product.

Iran’s Center of Commerce and House of Innovation and Technology inaugurated in Sulaymaniyah

 Iran’s Center of Commerce and House of Innovation and Technology was launched in Sulaymaniyah before noon on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, in a ceremony attended by Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish officials as well as representatives of the private sectors of the two sides.

Iran becomes 1st Mideast state to indigenize cloud seeding radar tech

For the first time in the Middle East, Iranian scientists have successfully indigenized the advanced technology used in cloud seeding radars as part of efforts to address the issue of water scarcity in the country.

Raisi: Iran ready to share technological achievements with D-8 members

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has said the country is ready to share its technological and knowledge-based achievements with members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation, D-8.

Iran carries out second launch of home-made satellite carrier

Iran’s defense ministry says the homegrown satellite carrier rocket dubbed Zoljanah has been tested for the second time over the past 16 months.

Iranian knowledge-based company produces medicine countering respiratory infection

A knowledge-based Iranian company has produced a new medicine that reduces respiratory infection.

Venezuela’s Maduro says impressed by scientific, technological progress in Iran

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, fresh from a trip to Iran, says he is amazed by the scientific and technological progress Iran has made during the recent years.

Iran develops agro-drones for crop dusting

Iran has reached self-sufficiency in the production of agricultural drones. An Iranian knowledge-based company has developed the machine at a sci-tech park in the capital, Tehran.

Iran knowledge-based company makes portable ventilator, sidesteps sanctions

An Iranian knowledge-based company has produced a portable ventilator machine which does away with the need to import foreign brands at exorbitant prices.

Iranian president orders local company to produce passenger planes

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has on Iran’s Aircraft Manufacturing Industries, HESA, to produce passenger planes.

Iran says plans test-launches of satellite carrier for research purposes

Iran says it plans to conduct two test-launches of the Zoljanah satellite carrier, which was designed and developed by experts at home, for research purposes, as the country speeds up efforts to promote its space industry.

Iran president orders facilitating export of science-based firms’ products

President Ebrahim Raisi said on Sunday that regional and other overseas countries are eager to use products of Iran's science-based companies, calling on concerned officials to arrange for the export of these items.

Iran museum invention wins international innovation standard award

A museum invention by an Iranian group has won the country a type B Innovation Standard certificate of the International Federation of Inventors’ Associations.

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