TEHRAN, Jan 28 -Scientists who assembled the genome of a salamander renowned for its ability to regenerate body parts say the achievement could be an important step toward finding ways to regrow human body parts.
TEHRAN, December 16 -A newly released video shows US President Donald Trump's current budget director and soon-to-be Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney calling him "a terrible human being" during a 2016 campaign debate.
TEHRAN, December 05 -"Our research suggests that reducing the area we use for farming and settlements will help species other than the cosmopolitan ones," said researcher Tim Newbold.
TEHRAN, November 10 -America’s so-called war on terror that began 17 years ago has killed millions of people, far greater than official estimates, amounting to a “holocaust” and one of the worst war crimes in human history, a US scholar says.
TEHRAN, November 05 -A human chain has been formed in the British capital London to protest against Britain’s imminent withdrawal from the European Union.
TEHRAN, October 23 - The U.N. humanitarian chief says the conflict in Yemen has left 8.4 million people dependent on emergency food assistance and 75 percent of its 22 million people requiring some form of aid.
TEHRAN, October 17 -Three female dissidents have launched an open-ended hunger strike at a detention center in Bahrain to protest their dire situation and mistreatment by prison authorities as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on human rights campaigners and pro-democracy activists in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
TEHRAN, October 08 -Protesters calling for Catalan independence kicked off Spain’s bi-annual human towers building competition on Sunday which is being held for the first time since Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence referendum.
TEHRAN, September 16 -Based on an analysis of elephant birds' bones, scientists now believe humans arrived on the tropical island of Madagascar off the coast of Africa more than 6,000 years earlier than previously thought.
TEHRAN, July 14 - Scientists have isolated an ancient sample of the parvovirus from human remains, which could provide researchers with detailed knowledge of extinct genetic diversity and viral phylodynamics.
TEHRAN, July 04 -Heart function in monkeys has been restored with human stem cells, according to a study, showing promise the method will work in humans with heart failure.
TEHRAN, June 30 - Malaysia’s new government said on Saturday it is considering amending laws on human trafficking and migrant smuggling just days after the U.S. State Department reported a lack of progress in the country’s efforts to counter trafficking in the past year.
TEHRAN, June 14 - The Swedish deputy ambassador to the United Nations has urged the Security Council to demand a swift freeze on an ongoing Saudi-led military operation against Yemen’s port of Hudaydah.
TEHRAN, November 28 - French President Emmanuel Macron called the trafficking of African migrants a "crime against humanity" on Tuesday as he made his first major address on the continent before a crowd of university students in Burkina Faso.
TEHRAN, November 11 - Sunday marks the day that humanity takes one step closer to the science-fiction realm with space lasers. An American aerospace firm is aiming to create 200 megabits per second (Mbps) connections in space using satellites equipped with lasers.
TEHRAN, November 11 -The catastrophic asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago may not have been so devastating had it hit almost anywhere else on earth. It means dinosaurs could still rule the earth and humans may never have evolved at all.
TEHRAN, November 3 - One day robots could entirely edge out human beings and become a new life form that is even capable of replicating itself, Stephen Hawking has warned, once again predicting a rather grim future for humankind.
TEHRAN, October 13 -A survivor of the Fukushima nuclear disaster has submitted evidence to United Nations Human Rights Council, testifying that she was “forced” to return home to a contaminated area after the government ended financial subsidies for voluntary evacuees.