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Iran unveils first home-made plane turbo-jet engine
August 21, 2021
Iranian army unveiled the country’s first homemade turbojet engine Aug. 21, during a ceremony attended by President Hassan Rouhani. The engine dubbed Ouj is fully...
Iran, Russia to cooperate in building remote-sensing satellite
August 1, 2021
Minister of IT has said an agreement has been hit with Russia where it will cooperate with Iran in developing Iran’s National Remote-Sensing Satellite, Mehr...
Iranian woman wins Top European Math Prize
July 31, 2021
Iranian-Swedish mathematician Sara Zahedi has won a prestigious European Mathematical Society Prize, the top honor for young European mathematicians awarded once every four years. Zahedi...
Iran ranks first in aerospace in Middle East, 11th in world
July 4, 2021
Iran ranks first in aerospace in the Middle East and 11th in the world, according to SCImago Journal and Country Rank database. The statistics released...
Iran to place ‘professional satellite’ at GSO by 2025
June 21, 2021
Iran says it will place “professional satellites” at the geosynchronous orbit by 2025. Iran’s current satellites are tentatively built to improve the country’s space technology,...
Iranian researcher wins international chemistry prize
June 11, 2021
Iranian researcher Ali Maleki has been awarded the 2016 IUPAC-CHEMRAWN VII for Green Chemistry, IUPAC website reported. Dr. Ali Maleki received this award in recognition...
First Iranian woman elected to US Nat’l Academy of Sciences
May 17, 2021
Maryam Mirzakhani has become the first Iranian woman elected to the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) after she set the record of the first...
Saving Iran’s Precious Lake Urmia
April 27, 2021
By: Ramin Skibba, Scientific American Many of Iran’s once flourishing wetlands have dried dramatically in recent years. Lake Urmia in particular, the sixth largest salt lake...
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World’s Largest Center for Neurological Research Under Construction in Tehran
April 24, 2021
Iran says the world’s largest center for neurological research is under construction in the capital city of Tehran. Due to open by the end of Iranian...
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NASA names asteroid after Iranian scientist
March 30, 2021
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has named an asteroid in the solar system after Firouz Naderi, an Iranian scientist and the former...
Iran ready to launch ‘Friendship’ satellite into orbit
March 6, 2022
Iran has got its latest locally developed satellite, named Doosti (Friendship), ready to be launched into orbit, a senior Iranian official said. Iranian ICT Minister...
Iranian scientists win US NSF Award
February 3, 2022
Two Iranian scientists, Negar Tavassolian and Babak Heidari, won Stevens Award at US National Science Foundation (NSF). Babak Heidari is a professor at Systems and...
Iran joins advanced countries in establishing ‘brain bank’
January 31, 2022
Iran has joined the US, Germany and other European countries in establishing its first ‘brain bank’ to promote research on diseases pertaining to the neurological...
Iranian astrophysicist win third in Buchalter Cosmology Prize competition
January 12, 2022
Iranian astrophysicist Niayesh Afshordi has won third place in the 2015 Buchalter Cosmology Prize competition. Afshordi, a faculty member from University of Waterloo in Canada,...
Iranian scientist finds new method for curing cancer
December 19, 2021
An Iranian scientist in Australia has found a new method for detecting cancer and curing it even at early stages. Dr Majid Warkiani and his...
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200 Iranians among top 1% scientists of the world
December 14, 2021
200 Iranian scientists are among the 1% top scientists across the world. Acting President of Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC) Mohammad-Javad Dehghani said that...
German president’s science award goes to Iranian scientist
December 6, 2021
German President Joachim Gauck awarded the “2015 Deutscher Zukunftspreis”, the German President’s award for innovation in science and technology, to Iranian scientist Ardeshir Ghofrani and his...
Iranian brothers win ”European Youth Award 2015”
December 6, 2021
Two Iranian brothers living in Sweden won the ”European Youth Award 2015” for their invention ”Complex Disease Detector”. Allen Ali Mohammadi, student at the Master...
Iranian scientist receives OPCW-The Hague Award
December 1, 2021
At a ceremony held in Hague yesterday, Iranian scientist Dr Mahdi Balali-Mood received the second annual OPCW-The Hague Award, for his outstanding contribution to achieving...
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Iran unveils new human-like robot
November 16, 2021
Iran unveiled a home-made human-like robot dubbed ‘Sorena 3’ on Monday during a ceremony attended by vice-president for Science and Technology, Sourena Sattari. The robot...