Taking part in 9 national examinations, 7,646 students managed to get admission for pre-international Olympiads exams, deputy director of the National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents has said. Out of nearly 1.9 million high school students qualified to take part in the examinations, 83,694 took part in 9 national exams including Persian literature, geography,...Read More

 An exhibition showcasing Iran’s historical artifacts and nature opened in the Mexican capital. The exhibition is being held for three weeks at the Paseo de la Reforma that runs through the heart of Mexico City. “This cultural event has provided an opportunity so that a window is opened from México City to the beauties of...Read More

The genetic and molecular makeup of breast tumors holds clues to how a woman’s disease could progress, including the likelihood of it coming back after treatment, and in what time frame, according to a Cancer Research UK-funded study published this week in the journal Nature. Scientists at the University of Cambridge and Stanford University examined...Read More

Vision may be our most important sense but many of us are neglecting our precious peepers. Millions of people will suffer from sight problems, ranging from minor issues including red eye to more serious conditions such as glaucoma, mirror.co.uk wrote. More than 2.5 million Brits aged over 65 have cataracts, where the lens becomes cloudy...Read More

 Childhood obesity is on the rise in the country alarmingly and it can be prevented by healthy diet and increased physical activity among children, director of the Health Ministry’s nutrition office, Zahra Abdollahi, has said. The main solution to prevent childhood obesity is changing families’ diet as consumption of fast foods and carbonated drinks are...Read More

Iran’s national weightlifting team will compete for the first time in Asian contests to be held in mid April in China, the head of the Iran Weightlifting Federation told the Islamic Republic News Agency ‘The competitions, to be held from April 18-28 in Ningbo, eastern China, are one of the stages of winning spots in...Read More

Parvin E’tesami’s International Festival opened in Tabriz in the presence of Persian literature professors from Iran, Turkey, Tajikistan, the Republic of Azerbaijan and Bangladesh. Organized by the Literary Association of Tabriz and sponsored by the Directorate General of Culture and Islamic Guidance, the Foundation for the Arts, Culture and Arts of Azarbaijan Province, and Shahriyan...Read More

High blood pressure, or hypertension, if left undetected or uncontrolled, can lead to serious health problems, including heart failure, stroke, kidney disease, vision loss, etc. There may be no single cause for high BP in most cases, perhaps, no one really knows exactly what causes this condition. However, certain factors, including lifestyle, can increase the...Read More

 Iranian film scholar Leila Hosseini has been selected for the international competition jury of the Millenium International Documentary Film Festival, which will be held in Brussels, Belgium from March 22 to 30. She has been working for the international section of Iran’s Documentary and Experimental Film Center (DEFC) since 2001 and is a translator of...Read More

Fatemeh Sima Shadkam and Sahand Nouri both won bronze medals for Iran at the 2019 Asian Youth Athletics Championships. Shadkam stood third at the 2000 meters steeplechase with a time of 7:32.53. Japanese Yuzuki Murakami won the gold medal with 7:06.53 and the silver medal went to Kazakhstan’s Vassilissa Fakhrutdinova who clocked 7:22.88. Nouri also...Read More