Science and Technology

PayvandNews – Iran’s minister of information and communications technology says the country plans to send a new domestically-manufactured satellite into space by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (ending on March 20, 2017). Iran’s Safir rocket sent Rasad satellite into orbit in June 2011 Mahmoud Vaezi said on Wednesday that the probe called Sharif Sat would be put …

PayvandNews – Iranian researchers at Amirkabir University have designed and developed brain stimulator transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) devices that can be used in treatment of Parkinson’s Disease. Golnaz Baghdadi, Bioelectric PhD student at Biomedical Engineering Department of Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), told Mehr News that the tDCS device has been developed in Iran for the first time by a team …

PayvandNews – French carmaker Renault’s sales of automobiles to Iran increased by 146 percent from January to November 2016 compared to the same period in 2015, according to the French company’s recent sales report, Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday. Renault’s sales in Iran reached 93,798 vehicles in the said 11 months, increasing from the figure of the same time …

PayvandNews -Our lives in Tehran and worldwide is in constant motion. Time is always in transition. This was a reflection of TEDxTehran theme the past three years. We began with our city, Tehran En Route, heading towards an inflection point, The Verge of a Breakthrough that gave way to A New Paradigm. So what comes right after this journey to …

RFL/RE – The Iranian president has ordered the country’s scientists to start planning the development of nuclear marine propulsion in response to what he called the United States’ violation of last year’s nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers. The White House reacted to news of President Hassan Rohani’s order by saying on December 13 that the move does not …

PayvandNews – Iranian-American scientist Dr. Cumrun Vafa is the recipient of the 2017 Breakthrough Prize In Fundamental Physics. Dr. Vafa will share the $3 million prize with 2 Professors Joseph Polchinski and Andrew Strominger. Dr. Cumrun Vafa (credit: Hayward Photography) The Breakthrough Prize and founders Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, …

Iranhumanrights.org – A state crackdown on social media ahead of Iran’s 2017 presidential election has resulted in the Cyber Police (FATA) requiring Iranian-owned channels with more than 5,000 followers on the country’s most popular messaging application, Telegram, to seek official permits. Meanwhile, several Iranian-owned Telegram channels have been hacked by state agents, according to an investigation by the International Campaign …

RFL/RE – British Prime Minister Theresa May says she hopes to deepen defense cooperation with Persian Gulf countries to “push back Iran’s aggressive regional actions.” “I want to assure you that I am clear-eyed about the threat that Iran poses to the Gulf and to the wider Middle East,” May told the Gulf Cooperation Council in Bahrain on December 7, …

PayyvandNews – Iran says it will soon launch a cooperation scheme with France’s aviation giant Airbus over the production of spare parts for planes – a move that could help the company get a stronger foothold in the Iranian market once a much-awaited agreement to sell planes to the country becomes effective. Airbus A380 Manouchehr Manteqi, a top official from …

PayvandNews – Historically low rainfalls have raised concerns that Iran will have an arid year in 2017. Iran’s Tasnim news agency in a report said the average rainfalls in the country dropped this autumn by 74 percent compared to last year. This was the lowest drop the country had seen for the past 47 years, Tasnim added. “Overall rainfalls measured …