TEHRAN- The Iran National Innovation Fund (INIF) has carried out 150 macro projects with the help of knowledge-based companies across the country.

Over the past three years, the INIF has concluded contracts worth 8 trillion rials (about $25 million) with knowledge-based companies for implementing technological projects, IRNA quoted INIF director

TEHRAN – A Persian translation of English writer Daniel Defoe’s book “A Journal of the Plague Year” has been published in Persian.

Shohreh Miremadi is the translator of the book published by Saless.

Actually written sixty years after the plague of 1665 swept through London, Defoe brings the city to life in all of its hardship and fear. 

With a wealth

TEHRAN - Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo is a last-year Ph.D. student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He found that Vanadium Dioxide is a material that is normally insulating (does not conduct electricity), but when it receives a certain electric current, it undergoes a phase transition and becomes a conductor

TEHRAN – Iranian short drama “Left Handed” has won the BNP Paribas Excellence Prize at the Seoul International Women's Film Festival.

Directed by Nasrin Mohammadpur, the film is about Maryam, a 38-year-old woman who is the head of a family of four.

“This film contains a lot of narrative despite its short running time and scarce dialogue,” the org