After a 4.3 magnitude earthquake hit Khonj, speculation of a secret Iranian nuclear test erupted. We break down the seismic signatures, enrichment levels, and expert analysis to determine if Tehran has officially crossed the nuclear threshold.

The Isfahan facility, suspected of storing a cache of enriched uranium, was smashed during the 12-day campaign last June.

Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the country to do so

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Ariane Tabatabai, the Public Service Fellow at Lawfare, about U.S. attacks on Iran and how President Trump's calls for regime change might be received there.

Iranians are running out of water and choking on some of the world's worst air pollution, environmental crises that critics say exemplify the failures fueling anger at the country's theocratic regime. "If I want to use one word, it's mismanagement," Hamid ...

A local political science professor says the escalating tensions in the Middle East could carry international and domestic implications, but warns that talk of a wider global conflict is premature.

Since 1990, the Academies has been engaged in a program of workshops, exchange visits, and scientific consultations with the Iranian Academy of Sciences, the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences, and other institutions in Iran. A report describing these ...

Claims have emerged that the entrance to Iran’s nuclear facility in Isfahan, central Iran, known to house uranium enrichment equipment, was recently covered with soil. On the 9th (local time), the U.S. think tank Institute for Science and International ...

The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides absolute Count of primary research articles and fractional ...

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