Having carried out new high -precision measurements of the speed of the sleeves of the Milky Way, the international group of astronomers made a conclusion according to which our galaxy not only rotates much faster than previously, but also weighs one and a half times more. Mark Reid (Mark Reid, www.

Alexey Paevsky, deputy editor of the science department of the portal Infox.ru Living in Russia now is interesting. Especially a journalist, even a scientific one. Either the communists of the Leningrad region will protest against cooperation with NASA (“...

The monitoring of the media for pseudoscience discussed above is a very mild form of public control, which, nevertheless, if carried out with enthusiasm, can be very effective. Meanwhile, the idea of ​​public control over the media is in the air in much more ponderous forms.

Magellanic clouds, large and small, are the satellites of our galaxy. There are quite close to us - 50 (large) and 60 (small) kiloparsk - and close to each other. For comparison: the diameter of the disk of our galaxy is about 30 kiloparsk. The Magellanic clouds together are an order of magnitude smaller than our galaxy in the number of stars and luminosity (by mass the difference is even more, due to dark matter).

The famous Leningrad linguist, a student of the great Shcherba, Professor Lev Rafailovich Zinder, many years ago told me that he never reads memoirs: “All lies!” - my interlocutor concluded, by no means inclined to categorical. It was in the late 60s, there were few interesting memoirs. Khodasevich - one of my favorite books - was available only in typewriting.

Announcement of the issue How long can you bang your head against the wall, calling on the media to respect the laws of nature and not publish anti-scientific nonsense?! Journalists and media editors in most cases understand that this is nonsense - no expertise is required. They simply assume that their audience is so stupid that they like supernatural soaps and therefore it makes economic sense.

Nasonia vitripennis female In No. 16n and No. 17n of the STV last year, we discussed the problem of lazy males: why do we need males who do not care about offspring, and even more so in large numbers? Today we will discuss this issue in terms of sex ratio in offspring. Let me remind you that the problem arises due to an uneven contribution of energy to offspring: males are able to produce millions of small sperm, while females are able to produce only a small number of eggs.

The early history of the Earth and the planets of the solar system is one of the most interesting and as yet unsolved questions of geology and planetology. Moreover, progress in the accumulation of factual material comes from two sides. For example, we know when the solar system formed. This occurred several million years before the condensation of calcium-aluminum inclusions in chondritic meteorites.

On December 20, 2008, the brilliant scientist Tatyana Maksimovna Birshtein was 80 years old-Dr.-Mat. Nauk, chief scientific employee of the Institute of High Molecular Utilities (IVS), professor of St. Petersburg State University, laureate of the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, V.A.

Alexander Sergeev, moderator of the Club of Scientific Journalists, scientific editor of the magazine “Around the World” Recently, the Interfax news agency covered in detail ( www.interfax.ru/society/txt.asp?id=57921 ) a press conference of astrologer Alexander Zaraev, held by the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.

Dear editors! Whether we like it or not, but at present the most important role in society in general, and science with education in particular, is played by all kinds of ratings, indexes and impacts. It is not so important who you are, how - how great your rating is.

Interview with the famous Russian theoretic physicist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor Fiz.-Mat. sciences, chief researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS, head. The Department of Theorfisics of the Novosibirsk State University Joseph Bencovich Khilovich , who made a great contribution to the theory of elementary particles, the quantum theory of fields, atomic physics and the general theory of relativity. The conversation was led by Natalia Demina.

The Dynasty Foundation, together with the Moscow Center for Continuing Mathematical Education, held the final face-to-face round of the mathematics problem solving competition on January 17-19. The participants were offered 6 problems ( http://www.math.ru/ot5do15/final.pdf ), compiled by jury member V.I. Arnold. Based on the results of the competition, it turned out that each problem (except for one point of one problem) was solved by at least one participant.

Nikolai Shtykov, candidate at first. sciences, Art. teacher, Irkutsk State Pedagogical University In favor of the exam, two main arguments are usually given. According to the first of them, the USE makes it possible to objectively identify the level of knowledge in the corresponding subject, and the graduate can evaluate his chances of entering the selected university based on the approximate passing points that this university set.

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