Sergey Popov The city is a developing environment. How to preserve historical heritage without slowing down development? This is a difficult problem that urban defenders are trying to solve. If effective conflict resolution mechanisms operate in a society, then it is possible to combine progress and traditions, a comfortable environment and historical memory. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to successfully cope with this difficult task.

The entire issue of the newspaper “Trinity Option - Science” No. 461 dated August 25, 2026 in PDF Issue materials in HTML Announcement of the issue 40 years of cosmological inflation Review by Alexey Levin for the anniversary of Andrey Linde’s article – pp. 1–7 Swift is doomed, thunderstorms on Saturn, the Statue of Liberty Nebula... ...and other astronomy news from Alexey Kudry - pp. 8–10 “Methane” snail, sperm whale conversations, bird biocompass...

Ilya Belykh On June 12, 2017, eight researchers—seven Google employees and an intern from the University of Toronto—published the article “Attention Is All You Need” on arXiv [ 1 ]. It describes the architecture of a neural network, called “transformer”. Nine years have passed, and all the flagship language models are built on this architecture: ChatGPT and Claude, Gemini and Llama, DeepSeek and GigaChat.

Alexey Kudrya Explosion without afterglow In March 2026, China's Einstein Probe telescope detected the fast X-ray transient EP 260321a in a galaxy about 500 million light-years away. This signal was identified as a "shock breakout" - the first glow that occurs when the shock wave from the explosion of a star breaks through its surface.

Pavel Shubin. Photo by O. Semenov On August 5, 2026, the second stage of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle fell onto the lunar surface, which on January 15, 2025 launched the interplanetary stations of the private companies Blue Ghost Mission 1 (Firefly Aerospace) and Hakuto-R (ispace) onto the flight path to the Moon. The crash site is the Einstein crater area, close to the north pole of the Moon. The diameter of the resulting crater is estimated to be approximately 20 m, and the depth is up to 6 m.

Natalia Toropova On the tips of the wings Let's talk about butterflies again. First of all, they are beautiful. Secondly, they are not as simple as they seem. These insects are extremely sensitive to odors. The antennae covered with sensilla hairs are responsible for catching them in butterflies. Some species have several thousand sensilla, and the record holders, for example Antheraea polyrhemus , have 60 thousand of them.

We continue to publish chapters from Mikhail Mikhailov’s future book “How I Was a Scientist.” Previous texts can be found at the link: www.trv-science.ru/tag/mihail-mihajlov Unlike Larisa and me, who were painfully experiencing the breakdown of traditional ideas, the children took the gigantic upheavals in the state for granted.

Chernigovskaya T.V., Anokhin K.V. The brain and its “I”. Who are we? Where are we from? Where are we going? — M.: AST, 2026 The great work of Tatyana Chernigovskaya and Konstantin Anokhin, published by AST Publishing House, deserves consideration by specialists in neuroscience, philosophers and other educated and thinking people. It is not easy for everyone to understand and not for everything, but it is definitely worth a try to read it. There are now countless books about the brain.

July 29: Parody of the classic deviliad 125 years ago, Anna Aleksandrovna Barkova (Kalika Perekhozhaya, 1901–1976), a Russian poetess, author of the stories “The Steel Husband”, “Eight Chapters of Madness”, “How the Moon Is Made” was born. Literary critic Leonid Taganov about Anna Barkova’s prose: “ The intellectual-dialogical principle dominates in Barkova’s stories.

1 Oksana Stein Alexander Markov All the masks that we have talked about so far, with all their philosophical depth, remain within the limits of one life. Harlequin falls and gets up. Pantalone locks his wallet and loses it. The captain gets hit with a stick - and continues to talk. The doctor talks and talks and talks. But none of them crosses the line. Nobody really, seriously, completely dies. Now we have a mask that is constantly dying. And constantly resurrects.

Katsu Kokichi. Revelations of the old man Musui: the autobiography of a good-for-nothing samurai / Trans. from Japanese, comm. A. N. Meshcheryakov. — M.: Infinitive: Linguistics, 2026 The Infinitive: Linguistics publishing house has published a new book translated by Alexander Meshcheryakov. Readers of TrV-Nauka know him thanks to a series of autobiographical notes that were published until recently on the last page of our newspaper.

Ivan Bolshakov gives a lecture at the Yabloko party university. Photo by Karina Gradusova Sergey Popov On August 11, the Supreme Court deprived the Yabloko party of the right to participate in the State Duma elections this fall. The party leadership intends to appeal this decision.

The entire issue of the newspaper “Trinity Option - Science” No. 460 dated August 11, 2026 in PDF Issue materials in HTML Announcement of the issue “Democracy is a complex thing, it needs to be learned” Conversation between astrophysicist Sergei Popov and Ivan Bolshakov , head of the Yabloko analytical center, pp. 1–5 The escaped black hole RBH-1, the lost oceans of Venus... ...and other astronomy news in the review by Alexey Kudry - pp.

Ilya Belykh Sidebar cheat sheet A sandbox is an isolated environment where a program is run so that it cannot reach external systems. A zero-day vulnerability is a flaw that the manufacturer is not yet aware of and for which there is no patch. An agent is the same neural network, but launched not to respond in a chat, but to work: it is given a goal and given tools.

Grok Pavel Amnuel By noon it was getting really hot, even in the shade under the canopy it was hard to breathe. He sat in a deck chair, fanned himself with the morning newspaper, and thought that it would be better to come to Virginia Beach not in July, but in September. May be. Or maybe not. If the advertisements are to be believed, July is heavenly time in Virginia Beach.