Iran national basketball team defeated Jordan 82-70 in a friendly match on Saturday.Mehran Shahintab’s team will meet hosts Russia on Sunday.Iran will also participate at a tournament in China, where they will face Nigeria, Montenegro and Poland from Aug. 19 to Aug. 25.

Iran have been drawn with world’s second-ranked Spain, Puerto Rico and Tunisia in Group C of the 2019 FIBA World Cup.

The competition will be held in China from 31 Aug. to 15 Sept.The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup will be the 18th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men’s national basketball teams.

Rescheduled from 2018 to 2019, this edition will be the first FIBA Basketball World Cup since 1967 that will not occur in the same year as the FIFA World Cup, but a year following the latter.

Also, the group stage will expand from 24 to 32 teams. The top eight teams, including Japan as the hosts of the 2020 Summer Olympics (and the top two teams from each of the Americas and Europe; and the top team from each of Africa, Asia and Oceania) in this competition will qualify for the men’s basketball event in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo./  Tehran times /

The 8th International Conference on Nanostructures (ICNS8), slated for April 2020 in Tehran, is calling for paper submission on a variety of topics on nanotechnology.

The 8th International Conference on Nanostructures (ICNS8), organized by the Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of Sharif University of Technology, will be held on 20-22 April 2020 in Tehran.

The event is calling for paper submission by November 6th. Topics include: Low-dimensional Nanostructures; Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine; Nanosensors and Nanobiosensors; Nanostructures in Magnetism, Electronics, Photonics and Plasmonics; Nanostructures for Water and Environment; Nanostructures for Energy Conversion and Storage; Advanced Fabrication and Characterization Methods; Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Commercialization in Nanotechnology; and Nanosafety Considerations and Regulations.

The conference was founded with the aim of bringing together academics and industrialists from around the world after the timely perception of the need for an opportunity to discuss cutting-edge knowledge in the field of nanoscience.

The event aims to provide an excellent opportunity to forge collaborations between universities, research institutions and companies for the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology both within the country and with international partners.

The scientific program is going to be varied with keynote speeches, invited talks, papers in oral and poster sessions, workshops and technical demonstrations organized for scientific networking, according to the event’s website.

The Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (INST) of Sharif University of Technology founded the biennial conferences on Nanostructures with the special support of Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC) in 2006. /MNA/

Russia produced three World champions on the final night of men’s freestyle action to edge out Iran by two points in the team race on Wednesday at the 2019 Cadet World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Winning gold medals at 51 kg, 60 kg and 71 kg, Russia collected 168 team points, while Iran went 1-2 in its gold-medal matches to finish with 166 points.

The first champion of the night for Russia was two-time U15 European champion Mukhamed KHANIEV (RUS). Wrestling at 51 kg, Khaniev defeated Zhakhongir AKHMAJANOV (KAZ), 10-5.

Following up Khaniev’s performance was Arip ABDULAEV (RUS), who is also a two-time U15 European champion, unitedworldwrestling.org reported.

Abdulaev won a crucial head-to-head over Iran’s Erfan Mohammad ELAHI (IRI), 9-6, in the 60 kg finals. The win was critical in helping push Russia past Iran in the team race.

At the very next weight, 71 kg, Soslan TIGIEV (RUS) wrapped up his first World tournament with a Cadet World championship, defeating 2017 U15 Balkan champion Krisztian BIRO (ROU) in a 13-11 shootout.

Iran did win a gold medal at 92 kg as 2019 Cadet Asian champion Soheyl YOUSEFI SANGANI (IRI) outlasted Zagid KARIMOV (RUS), 3-1.

In the 43 kg gold-medal bout, 2018 Cadet Pan American freestyle and Greco-Roman champion Marc-Anthony MCGOWAN (USA) won the first medal of the tournament for the United States with a late takedown over 2019 Cadet Asian champion Ali Mehran ARAB FIROUZJAEI (IRI) for a 3-1 win. / Tehran Times /

Iranian chemistry students received four medals at the 51st International Chemistry Olympiads (IChO 2019) which was held on 21-30 July 2019 in Paris, France.

The 51st IChO was held in Paris where Iranian team consisted of Mostafa Moghimi won a gold medal, Ali Jahromi and Amir Reza Baheri, each received a silver medal, and Amir Ali Ahrabi won a bronze medal among participants from 80 countries.

The International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) is an annual competition for the world’s most talented chemistry students at the secondary school level. Nations around the world send a team of four students who are tested on their chemistry knowledge and skills in a five-hour laboratory practical exam and a five-hour written theoretical examination that are held on separate days with the practical examination usually being before the theoretical examination.

Iranian students, including Behzad Saiedi, Arshia Khademi, Mehdi Jafarzadeh and Mohammad Hassan Sharifnia managed to grab 4 silver medals in the 50th edition IChO which was held on July 2018 and jointly hosted by Slovakia’s Bratislava and Czech Republic’s Prague.The 52nd IChO will be held in July 2020 in Istanbul, Turkey.

The national taekwondo team of Iran has won 37 medals of 2019 Pyeongchang World Taekwondo Hanmadang in South Korea.

The 27th edition of biggest annual Korean martial arts event, the World Taekwondo Hanmadang was held in PyeongChang, South Korea in two section of male and female on 26 -31 July 2019.

Iran’s representatives won 16 gold, 10 silver and 11 bronze medals in World Taekwondo Hanmadang.

Practitioners competed in 12 events and 59 fields for domestic participants and 54 for those from overseas. The festival brings together nearly five thousand people from 57 countries.

The world Taekwondo Hanmadang, which shows the essentials of the martial art such as breaking, self-defense and poomsae, is a contest held every year by Kukkiwon. It introduces the cultural superiority of Taekwondo and promotes the martial art as a valuable Korean culture. /MNA/

International Carpet Fair (ICF) was inaugurated in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan province on Thursday in the presence of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

In this prestigious exhibition, producers of handwoven carpets from the provinces of Isfahan, Gilan, Qom, Tehran, East and West Azarbaijan and a number of foreign countries showcased their latest products.

In addition, two 400- and 600-meter handwoven carpets, which were woven by craftsmen, showcased their handwoven carpets to the public view for the first time.

Tabriz International Carpet Fair will run until August 4.

During this trip, more than 500 development projects will be inaugurated in this province. /MNA /

A small, man-made lake is set to be officially opened to the public in northern Tehran. Lake Honar and the second phase of Honar Garden are ready to be inaugurated by the end of the current Iranian calendar month Mordad (August 22), Mehr reported on Wednesday.

The projects, run by Abbasabad Lands Rehabilitation Company, will be inaugurated within a month, Hamid Javani, executive deputy of the company announced on Wednesday.

The third phase of Honar Garden is expected to come on stream by spring 2020, he added.

Both projects, being implemented under the supervision of Tehran Municipality, are located on Abbasabad Lands and include a cafe gallery, an amphitheater, museums, handicraft exhibitions and some other recreational facilities, the report said.

Abbasabad Lands include several gardens such as Book Garden and Honar Garden which are part of implementing Tehran’s comprehensive upstream development plan./ Tehran times /

Researchers at Stanford, led by Iranian assistant professor of applied physics, have developed a ‘quantum microphone’ that could be the basis for more efficient quantum computers.

According to engadget, researchers at Stanford have developed a “quantum microphone” which can detect the smallest known units of sound — packets of vibrational energy called phonons. The device could form the basis for even more efficient quantum computers.

Phonons have previously been impossible to measure because traditional microphones are not nearly sensitive enough to pick them up. A microphone works by detecting when a sound wave interacts with a membrane, but the phonons are so small that they can’t be detected individually due to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

Instead of relying on indirect measurement of sound waves, the scientists built a device which measures the energy of phonons directly using minuscule resonators which act like mirrors for sound. The device can trap the photons and measure the vibrations they cause, with different energy levels corresponding to different numbers of phonons.

The device is described in a paper in Nature, and could be a step towards the creation of a new type of quantum computer. The ability to detect small packets of sound could allow for devices which encode information using sound energy, allowing the storage of massive amounts of data in a small machine.

A phonon quantum computer could be even more compact and efficient than a quantum computer which uses photons, or particles of light, as phonons are easier to manipulate than photons. If scientists can create a quantum computer using phonons, it could store more information in a smaller space than using photons.

“Right now, people are using photons to encode these states. We want to use phonons, which brings with it a lot of advantages,” said the lead author of the paper, Amir Safavi-Naeini, an Iranian assistant professor of applied physics at Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences. “Our device is an important step toward making a ‘mechanical quantum mechanical’ computer.” /MNA/