There's something in the rings of Saturn AUGUST 14, 17:18 // Alexey Paevsky // Illustration: astronaut.ru Small grains of dust carrying an electrical charge can form DNA-like structures. The ideal place for dust miners is the rings of Saturn or Uranus.

off the coast of Russia . White sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, have appeared WHITE SHARK (Carcharodon carcharias), which is more correctly called Carcharodon, reaches particularly significant sizes - the largest of the modern predatory sharks. Its back and sides are gray, brown or black, and its belly is off-white. The largest specimen of this species measured was 11 m in length, although even larger specimens appear to occasionally occur.

St. Petersburg police found and painted over an anti-Putin inscription In St. Petersburg, on house 21 on Ordinarnaya Street, a large inscription in oil paint appeared - “Putin is the main terrorist.” A police squad passing by reported this to the Petrograd District Internal Affairs Directorate . As a result, the police had to climb onto a ladder and paint over the inscription themselves. The police reported the inscription to the Federal Security Service Directorate for St.

August 16, 2007, 11:38 Science Lung cancer Lung cancer is a disease that oncologists don’t really like to treat. And which scientists are not particularly eager to study. Mainly because smokers themselves are blamed for the disease. ###1### Before proceeding to the main subject of the lecture, I will allow myself a small digression. Imagine that a certain category of people begins to receive pleasure in a very unique way. They jump from the windows of houses and enjoy free fall.

On Tuesday, the Kyiv District Court dealt with the claim of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc against the Central Election Commission. BYuT challenged the Saturday decision of the Central Election Commission, which refused to register the bloc due to the fact that the BYuT documents did not indicate the exact addresses of candidates running for the Verkhovna Rada , but only their cities of residence.

14 August 2007, 08:10 The power of the bomb under the Nevsky Express was 2 kg of TNT The power of the explosive device, which led to the derailment of the Nevsky Express train on Sunday evening, was up to two kilograms of TNT, a source in the security forces of the Novgorod region said. “According to the preliminary conclusion of explosives experts working at the scene, a bomb with a capacity of up to two kilograms of TNT exploded on the railway track,” he said.

August 14, 2007, 1:38 p.m The names of the uncaught hijackers became known The names of the suspects who last week staged a race with policemen on the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway have become known. According to the St. Petersburg police department, these are 28-year-old Konstantin Mikhailovsky and 27-year-old Timur Bobrov. Both are natives of St. Petersburg. According to preliminary data, they stole a Porsche Cayenne and a VAZ-2114 from Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region.

Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova , who is a UN Goodwill Ambassador, plans to visit Chernobyl. According to the AP, Sharapova will visit the area adjacent to the nuclear power plant next summer after Wimbledon. The athlete wants to meet with orphans living near the accident site. “The trip will take several days because I don’t have much free time. I can devote only 28 days a year to such events. The trip to Chernobyl is just the beginning of my activities.

Kommersant: Pugachev found money for the demolition of the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg VTB Bank agreed to provide the United Industrial Corporation (UPC) of Sergei Pugachev with a loan of $550 million for the demolition of one of the largest shipbuilding enterprises in Russia - the St. Petersburg Baltic Shipyard - for the construction of luxury housing and office buildings on its territory on Vasilyevsky Island.

14 August 2007, 04:56 The second train carrying Nevsky Express passengers departed for St. Petersburg The second train carrying passengers from the Nevsky Express that crashed in the Novgorod region was sent to St. Petersburg. According to Fontanka.Ru, the electric train is expected to arrive at the Moskovsky station at 05:15.

It turns out that the attractive appearance of Roma midfielder Francesco Totti does not make him sexy in the eyes of women. The most beautiful representatives of the local modeling business spoke with such a debunking of the personality cult of the idol of millions of Italian women. As soon as he settled down: married Ilari Blasi, had a child and abandoned football, he was immediately relegated to the background.

One of the suspects in the murder of schoolchildren from Moscow was arrested The Noginsk court has authorized the arrest of one of the three suspects in the August 9 murder of two schoolchildren from Moscow, an employee of the press service of the Moscow Region Prosecutor's Office reported. Thus, the court granted the request of the prosecutor's office to select a preventive measure for the suspect in the form of detention.

Duke University staff have confirmed in practice the theory of Allan Wilson, who back in 1975 suggested that the differences between humans and monkeys are not in genes, but in their activity. In 2006, biologists identified the area that is most different in humans from apes. It turned out that this is only 1% of the genome. Now, Ralph Haygood and his colleagues have identified from the remaining 99% more than half a thousand (575) genes with very different promoters.

Sport “At home you have to cling” Interview with Roman Pavlyuchenko Andrey Kartashov Spartak forward Roman Pavlyuchenko told a Gazeta.Ru correspondent about his readiness for the match with Celtic and what result would suit the red and white. Spartak forward Roman Pavlyuchenko slowly tied the laces on his boots, preparing to conduct a training session. Despite the cast (the forward has two broken fingers), the forward took part in the team's evening training session.

Business Nokia will warm your ears Nokia Corporation has begun replacing overheating cell phone batteries Valentin Menshov Nokia Corporation has begun replacing overheating cell phone batteries. In the worst case, a replacement could cost the company €500–700 million. However, it is possible that consumers—for them replacement is free—will be of little interest in the issue of battery overheating.