The Nobel Prize of this year in the field of physics was awarded to scientists who created new scientific tools based on lasers with unprecedented capabilities. The invention of the American Arthur Ashkin became known as "optical tweezers." It allows you to hold and move objects such as individual molecules, atoms, viruses or bacteria using a laser beam.

An attempt to combine the initiators of the referendum on the issue of retirement age was unsuccessful. However, the opposition did not abandon the idea and, in particular, the Communist Party of the Communist Party intends to appeal the corresponding law on the referendum in the Constitutional Court, the media write.

The Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences called the winners of the Physics Prize for 2018. All three current laureates work in the field of laser physics. Half of the prize was awarded to the American Arthur Ashkin for developing optical traps and their use in biological systems . The second half will be shared by the Frenchman Gerard Mouuru and Canadian Donna Strickland for creating a method for increasing ultra -short laser pulses with linear frequency modulation.

Designer Adam Mossery became the new general director of Instagram. The head of the company was presented by the co -founders of the social network Kevin System and Mike Kriger on the official page of the company. Mosseri began his career as a designer, later led his own consulting company in this area, and since 2008 he joined the team of Facebook designers. He recently moved to work on Instagram, where he served as vice president for a product before a new purpose.

The Russian Pre -Ravitism has returned to discuss the idea of ​​introducing the social norm of energy consumption for the population, Kommersant writes.

The government develops a draft reform of tariffs for electricity, primarily for the population. We are talking about the idea of ​​introducing the social norm of energy consumption, which was already discussed in the first half of the 2010s, but has not been introduced. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, as Kommersant writes on Tuesday, has already suggested that interested departments prepare regulatory documents until mid-January.

The public organization of small and medium-sized enterprises “Rossiya Russia” (represents the interests of 1,500 brewers, 3% of the market) supports the idea of ​​introducing a minimum retail price (MRC) to beer, Vedomosti reports with reference to the first Deputy Prime Minister-Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov. The response of the Director of the Department of Tax and Customs Policy of the Ministry of Finance Alexei Sazanov says that the department will consider this proposal.

The team of British and Irish zoologists led by Josh Firth from Oxford University established that the personality traits of birds of birds affect the nature of their connection with the future marriage partner. More courageous males are focused on the formation of a strong relationship with one female, while timid birds usually spend more time with other females.

The Governor of the Lipetsk region Oleg Korolev announced the resignation, RBC reports. In the appeal, “the embodiment of new plans is the case of young” Korolev notes: “ My generation had to save the Lipetsk region and the country in the difficult nineties, and we coped with this successfully. There are many achievements ahead, new bold plans. This is the case of young people. It's time to give way to youth . " Earlier, the head of the Kurgan region announced the resignation.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the process of deadllarization of the economy is very difficult and will take a lot of time, RBC reports. “This is a very complex process. This is a process that cannot be short -term, it is stretched in time. This is a very, very long and meticulous work, ”said the press secretary of the head of state.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on the transfer of US President Donald Trump in the ranking of world trust according to the version of the Pew Research Center . 30% of the respondents gave Putin fourth place, saying that the Russian leader competently lies foreign policy. In Trump, 27% of respondents believe. Leadership in the ranking - behind the Chancellor of Germany by Angela Merkel (52%).

Three biologists published a study of an interesting episode in the history of biology - a dispute on the ancient Egyptian bird mummies that came to France after the Egyptian campaign of Napoleon. The authors of the work believe that the popularity of Georges Cuvier during this discussion led to the fact that the idea of ​​variability of species and their evolution was recognized later than she could. The Australians Caitlin Curtis from the University of Queensland and David M.

On October 2, at the 80th year of his life, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Roman Kartsev, died. Natalya Zhvanetskaya reported in her Facebook . Roman Kartsev was born on May 20, 1939 in Odessa. The father seriously went in for sports - played football, after he was wounded and demobilized during the Great Patriotic War, he switched to coaching, was an arbitrator. Mom was a secretary of the party organization of the shoe factory and control .

Serbia President Alexander Vuchich at a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin announced “numerous provocations at the daily level” to his country, RIA Novosti reports.

The budget for 2019 will be childless at an oil price of 50 or even less than dollars per barrel, the media write. This is the first budget of such a variety in 12 years, the project of which is formed taking into account such a low oil price. The assessment of the 2019 budget was made on the basis of the calculations of the analytical credit rating agency (AKRA) conducted for the RBC information agency based on past data and the draft budget for 2019-2021.