http://www.theniki.net/Network of Iranian for Knowledge and Innovation(c) 2005, www.theniki.net . All rights reserved.2554Astronomers have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate. Astronomers, including the University of California, Riverside’s Bahram Mobasher and his graduate student Hooshang Nayyeri, made the discovery using NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes.newsdetail-fa-54.htmlFri, 23 Dec 2011 20:10:00 GMT52newsdetail-fa-52.htmlMon, 17 Jan 2011 22:05:00 GMT53A four-year-old boy with a severe muscle control disability has been given the ability to smile again thanks to pioneering brain surgery.newsdetail-fa-53.htmlMon, 17 Jan 2011 22:13:00 GMT51The 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering is presented to Lotfi Zadeh for his invention and development of the field of fuzzy logic, a mathematical system that captures aspects of the ambiguity of human language and thought, which has solved problems in areas such as artificial intelligence and the automated control of machines.newsdetail-fa-51.htmlMon, 05 Oct 2009 09:23:00 GMT50Prof Nayernia and his team in Newcastle claim to have created human sperm in the laboratory in what they say is a world first. The researchers believe the work could eventually help men with fertility problems to father a child.newsdetail-fa-50.htmlWed, 08 Jul 2009 07:47:00 GMT49A National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States announced the election of 72 new members, including two Iranian scientists. The newly-elected Iranian-American members are Cumrun Vafa, a trustee of NIKI and a professor at the Department of Physics, Center for Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. and Keyvan M. Shokat, a researcher at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco. Prof Vafa had received the 2008 Dirac Medal.newsdetail-fa-49.htmlThu, 04 Jun 2009 10:44:00 GMT48The Middle East"s first and the world"s fifth cloned goat, "Hanna", has been successfully born at Royan institute in Isfahan, Iran.newsdetail-fa-48.htmlMon, 20 Apr 2009 15:38:00 GMT47The presidents of six leading U.S. universities toured Iran, the latest in a series of exchange visits involving senior academics and scientists. The American academics included the presidents of Cornell, Carnegie Mellon and Rice Universities.newsdetail-fa-47.htmlThu, 11 Dec 2008 17:06:00 GMT46Mohammed Keshtgar, a leading breast cancer surgeon has discovered how to detect the disease with rays of light.newsdetail-fa-46.htmlFri, 05 Dec 2008 12:34:00 GMT45Iranian scientists at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences have successfully produced the country"s first bio-artificial liver.newsdetail-fa-45.htmlThu, 28 Aug 2008 14:58:00 GMT44In 2003, administrators at Stanford University"s Electrical Engineering Department were startled when a group of foreign students aced the notoriously difficult Ph.D. entrance exam, getting some of the highest scores ever. That the whiz kids weren"t American wasn"t odd; students from Asia and elsewhere excel in U.S. programs. The surprising thing, say Stanford administrators, is that the majority came from one country and one school: Sharif University of Science and Technology in Iran.newsdetail-fa-44.htmlSat, 16 Aug 2008 20:03:00 GMT43The University of London awarded an honorary doctorate to Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad during a ceremony on July 22.newsdetail-fa-43.htmlThu, 24 Jul 2008 05:22:00 GMT