The general stage of the 2026/27 Champions League is gaining momentum. The third round, played on October 20 and 21, added clarity to the table, but did not remove the main questions, and on November 3 and 4 the clubs will take to the field in the fourth round. Let's look at why every match is now worth its weight in gold and what you should pay attention to. Why every tour is worth its weight in gold There are 36 clubs participating in the general stage, and they all play in a single table.

After the third round of the 2026/27 Champions League, talk about how many points are needed to directly qualify for the 1/8 finals began to sound louder. The fourth round is ahead, which will take place on November 3 and 4, and for many clubs it will turn into the first serious test of strength. Let's figure out how the race works and which matches are worth watching.

MMX spacecraft concept. Image: JAXA Alexey Kudrya The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, the first expedition in the history of Mars exploration to deliver soil samples from a Martian satellite to Earth [ 1 ]. The launch took place on the H3 rocket on October 20 at 4:41 Tokyo time (October 19 at 22:41 Moscow time) from the Tanegashima Space Center.

The entire issue of the newspaper “Trinity Option - Science” No. 465 dated October 20, 2026 in PDF Issue materials in HTML Announcement of the issue “Treble clef” in the avoidance zone, supernova with z=5... ...and other astronomy news from Alexey Kudry - pp. 1–4 Sociable elephants, smart octopuses, giant mushroom... ...and other biology news from Natalia Toropova - pp. 4–6 Francis Halzen: the path to the Nobel Prize Alexey Levin talks about the creator of IceCube - pp.

The Great Patriotic War left behind millions of children whose childhood was marked by hunger, evacuation, cold, deprivation, orphanhood and loss. She forever changed and crippled human destinies. Our heroine, Aviva Vovsi, turned out to be such a child of war, who experienced the most terrible things in her childhood, but managed to survive and succeed in life. She was only three years old when her familiar world collapsed.

Anna Loginova Translator Anna Loginova talks about the book “Bittersweet Eros” (M.: Led, 2024) by Nobel laureate in literature 2026 Anne Carson. Anne Carson. Photo by Jay Dixit Ann Carson was born in 1950 in Toronto. She studied classical philology at the University of Toronto and taught at the University of Calgary, Princeton University, McGill University, the University of Michigan and New York University.

Alexey Khokhlov OpenAI (which developed ChatGPT) continues to amaze the scientific community. In those days when all eyes were on the Nobel Prizes, she published 722 preprints containing solutions to 372 previously unsolved mathematical problems. Nature [ 1 ] and Scientific American write about this event; this article was translated into Russian on the portal inosmi.ru [ 2 ]. The range of reactions of mathematical scientists ranges from confusion to indignation.

Leonid Ashkinazi We want to understand how nature works, and for this we use models - this is our tool. Models have three basic properties. First: when creating a model, we strive to make it simpler and more understandable for humans. Second: we usually know how the model works because we created it ourselves. However, it happens that we do not fully know how our tool works (this is, for example, the situation with artificial intelligence and heuristic optimizers).

Pavel Amnuel A familiar face flashed in the crowd. A woman of about seventy. Red hair, neat bob. A very familiar face. He definitely saw her somewhere. But he met so many different faces under so many different circumstances! Having checked in his suitcase and received his boarding pass, he went to the departure area, bought coffee and a croissant at the buffet and went to look for a free table. He preferred solitude at airports, but full rooms at meetings with readers. - Daniel!

Oksana Stein Alexander Markov There are animals that enter philosophy once and remain in it forever. The owl of Minerva flying out into the twilight, the mole of history digging its underground passages, the fly beating against the glass of the flytrap. The dove belongs to this select circle - but with one peculiarity: it appears in philosophy twice, and these two appearances are opposite in meaning.

Alexey Levin On October 6, 2026, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award of the next Nobel Prize in Physics to Francis Halzen (Halzen), an American theoretical physicist of Belgian origin, professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Natalia Toropova Why are octopuses smart? Just 15 years ago, the scientific world was amazed to discover how intelligent octopuses are. It turned out that their nervous system has about 500 million neurons (almost the same in cats), and each tentacle has a developed nervous network that provides local signal processing and movement control. Thus, with the light hand of Dr. Anna di Cosmo, professor at the University of Naples, the era of studying the brain of cephalopods began.

Happy 85th birthday to our regular author, the tireless historian of science and science journalist Alexei Levin. We wish you health, prosperity and inspiration for new publications! Let's tell you more about the books of Alexey Efimovich. White dwarfs. Future of the Universe The first book in Russian, almost entirely devoted to the cooling relics of stars, known as white dwarfs. But almost all stars, except the most massive ones, are destined to become such inhabitants of outer space.

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 We are publishing (abridged) an excerpt from the book “Revelations of Old Man Musui: The Autobiography of a Bad Samurai,” published this year by the Infinitive: Linguistics publishing house. The author of the translation is our regular author, historian, translator and writer Alexander Meshcheryakov .

Alexander Belyaev This was back in the days of LiveJournal, otherwise LiveJournal. Blessed times. Social networks had not yet degenerated to the level of sheep bleating and total sluggishly animated selfie-video pictures. At that time, textuality dominated digital exchange. The entire Russian State University for the Humanities, the entire Moscow State University were in LiveJournal. Both students and teachers.