I have an antique book inherited from my grandfather, whom I did not find alive. Grandfather was a historian by education, he taught history and literature all his life, but he was passionately fond of astronomy. Somewhere in 1910-1919. He taught in Kaluga, where he met Tsiolkovsky, and he infected him with astronomy. On the book, as you see, there is a library stamp of the Borovic Teacher's Library - my grandfather for a long time was a head teacher of one of the schools in Borovichi.

Rosobrazovanie announced a competition for the creation and content of the Internet portal “President of Russia – Young Scientists”.

The Martian Rover Opportunity photographed a stone on Mars, which most likely has an extra -emergency origin. The picture, taken on July 16, 2009, shows a stone about two feet (about 60 cm). The cobblestone received its own name Block ISland. In the near future, it is planned to study the stone with an X-ray spectrometer in order to confirm that this is a meteorite. However, perhaps, the very fact that the Mars -Roads continue to work is even more surprising.

As often happens with us, in the midst of summer and vacations in scientific circles there was a commotion. Another day - two before the event, information was held that the head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko prepared an offer to transmit itaps, IFVE, as well as a number of academic institutions (either a nuclear profile, or at all physical) to a single department - either to the new, or to Rosnauka - and will speak with this proposal at the government commission in the presence of D.A. Medvedev.

Inna Cooper The American media intensively discusses the candidacy for the post of heads of national institutes of Health, the main government organization financing and regulating biomedical research in the United States. The director, of course, does not solve anything single -handedly, but his values ​​and vision of science and medicine can significantly affect the support of certain areas of research in the field of biomedicines. Francis Collins, proposed by B.

There are special popular science magazines devoted to technology, astronomy, mathematics, etc. etc. Can there be a “humanitarian scientific and popular magazine”? If yes, then how could it be? The topic was discussed several times on different Internet sites. On the pages of the TRV , Olga Blaztyai , candidate of philological sciences and scientific journalist answers these questions.

Dear edition! Recently, at a meeting of the Presidential Commission on the modernization and technological development of the economy, Sergey Kiriyenko voiced the idea of ​​collecting all the scientific institutions of a nuclear profile into one fist to create a single research program, effectively manage money and tasks. They can wave this fist either Rosnauk or Rosatom.

Irving Langmur and Willis Whitney In the laboratory, 1920 Photo from the site www.harvartsquarelibrary. Org/Unitarians/Whitney.html Irving Langmur is an American physicist and chemical, Nobel laureate of 1932 for work in the field of surface chemistry. After receiving such a prestigious reward, of course, he no longer had to worry about food, but he was not always a Nobel laureate, and, like many others, his path began in obscurity and concern for the daily bread.

In May, the Khabble space telescope was repaired by the ATLANTIS SCATTLA astronauts (STS-125 mission). According to NASA plans, all this summer was allocated for testing and calibrating new and updated tools. However, the regulatory work was temporarily interrupted due to an exceptional event: it was decided to take pictures of the atmosphere of Jupiter, which received a “slot” in the area of ​​the South Pole.

Fundamental physics. Only one thing can be said here. Today, of course, there is a temptation, and such formulations are sometimes heard, that practical results cannot be expected from fundamental physics in the coming years, so there is no point in investing a lot of money in it. We encountered this, among other things, when we were preparing our federal target program “New Generation Energy Technologies”, because after agreement with the departments it remained purely applied.

As often happens with us, in the midst of summer and vacations, there was a commotion in scientific circles. Another day or two before the event itself, there was information that Sergei Kiriyenko had prepared a proposal to transfer ITEP, IHEP, ... to a single department - either a new one, or to Rosnauka ...

- Don't spread! – the cluster manager barked. – After work training! - Training again! – ordinary water molecules groaned. – You work all day like a beast, now washing, now compote, now the tank is leaking, and these trainings are endless... - Sha, be quiet! Another dilution on the nose, and you haven’t learned the properties of occillococcinum yet! If they get divorced, what are you going to tell the young people? Well, they quickly formed into subclusters!

Jacques Adamar (French Jacques Salomon Hadamard, 1865-1963) was one of the best mathematicians of the late XIX - the first half of the 20th century. And deservedly considered the legend of science. Adamar gracefully combined work in pure mathematics with applied research and pedagogical activity and, as many outstanding scientists of his time, was actively interested in public life.

Rebekah Frumkin In 2002, the press and the public celebrated the 40th anniversary of the famous art exhibition of 1962 in the Manege. The corresponding event was called "40 years of non -conformist art ." It was supposed, apparently, that the meaning of this phrase is still obvious. But outside the artistic environment, not only the association of non -conformist art with the 1962 exhibition, but also the plot of the scandalous visit of this exhibition N.S.

Recently, a new project has appeared on the Web - Physics - Online . ru . Its creator is the Publishing House of Turpion LTD . Turpion publishes English versions of Russian scientific journals (“Success of Physical Sciences”, “Quantum Electronics”, etc.). Lev Malov, General answers Sergei Popov questions Manager Turpion Ltd. ​ - PHYSICS - Online project . Ru Created by the publishing house. How unusual is this situation?