Sci & Tech

<p>Read the latest news about Iran's technology industries, from startups, mobile networks, innovative companies and e-commerce.</p>

  • Iranian student Amir Chitsaz of the Neuroscience Research Center of Tehran's Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences has been declared one of the finalists in the International Brain Bee…

  • Researchers at Sharif University of Technology have created a portable water purifier that removes contaminants and can be used in times of crises.

  • Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology and Omani research centers have reached an agreement to implement three research projects.

    "Iran-Oman Science Committee was…

  • Knowing when and where public events are held in Iran is a difficult task, whether it is an important conference, workshop, play or a music concert. There is limited access to information about…

  • The Islamic Republic News Agency has recently released its mobile news applications in English and Arabic. Following the release of IRNA's Farsi application last September, the apps are now…

  • The digital startup event called Seedstars World will be held in the Iranian capital this week.

    The event is returning for a second time to Tehran to identify the next big digital startup.…

  • One of Iran's leading business accelerators, Avatech, has released a public call for startups to register for the third cycle of the company's accelerating program.

    In the third cycle, 20…

  • MTN-Irancell, the second largest mobile telephone network, has announced the launch of a new service center to cater for Azeri-speaking people, a first such initiative in the Islamic Republic.

  • Iran plans to build two new satellites, said Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi.

    "A telecommunications satellite will be ready in three years while…

  • Iran's technological potential could very well redefine the tangent of political and economic development in both the Middle East and Central Asia, a new publication declared.

    According to…

  • Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi met with Armenia’s Ambassador to Iran Artashes Tumanyan in Tehran on Sunday. Vaezi highlighted the importance of…

  • As developing a local search engine is prioritized by Iran, the need for search engine optimization also becomes more evident.

    Online business has boomed in Iran in recent years and SEO is…

  • Silicon Valley tech giants and backers are flocking to a water-conserving shower head as a solution for the California drought.

    A shower system produced by the startup Nebia raised more…

  • Tarek Loubani, an emergency physician working in the Gaza Strip, has 3D-printed a 30-cent stethoscope that beats the world's best $200 equivalent as part of a project to bottom-out the cost of…

  • Shatel, Iran's largest private broadband Internet provider, has expanded Internet services in northwest Iran. Residents of Sareyn in Ardabil province that have phone numbers starting with the…

  • The International University of Chabahar has dispatched a team to attend the International Aerial Robotics Competition in China. The IARC is the longest running collegiate aerial robotics…

  • Iranian scientists have designed a linear accelerator for treating cancer tumors. Farid Nejatbakhsh, the director of the medical linear accelerator, said the project, which was started two years…

  • Iranian researchers have developed a new program that helps doctors monitor patients’ vital signs wirelessly.

    This is the first such indigenous system, which and could be expanded into…

  • A robotic festival for children and young adults concluded on Saturday in Khoy, West Azarbaijan Province.

    "During the event, students set out to design and build robots in the northwestern…

  • The Second Invention Festival opened in Tehran on Sunday. The event, which will continue until Tuesday August 18, is underway at Tehran's Milad Tower.  

    "The main goal of the event is…

  • Not long ago in May, Tehran's consumer-driven market was temporarily shell shocked when all advertising posters vanished overnight.

    The capital's billboards were stripped of all hoopla…

  • Samsung Electronics Co. unveiled a new Galaxy Note phablet and a larger version of its curved-screen S6 edge smartphone on Thursday, marking a fresh bid by the South Korean company to revive…

  • Engineers at MIT spend a lot of time figuring out how to make things better, faster and often smaller. Now a powerful new magnet technology has led the way to a groundbreaking design for a small…

  • The removal of sanctions will help facilitate the transfer of modern technologies and science into the country, Managing Director of National Iranian Oil Company Rokneddin Javadi said on Wednesday…

  • A surprise hotbed of support for the recently reached nuclear agreement between Iran and the six world countries has been emerging from the streets of the US capital Washington.