The building of the MTC SB RAS (Novosibirsk). Photo from the site tomo.nsc.ru In December last year, in the 43rd number of the TRV, the article “Transparent Acceintorg” was published. It was about dubious schemes for the purchases of imported scientific equipment, thanks to which the RAS budget annually loses very significant amounts.

In the portal of the online magazine “Free Press”, in the issue of February 4, 2010, my attention was drawn to the article “Scientists have proven: the civilization of Europe originated in Russia.” This proud statement was put forward by a journalist with a telling surname - Olga Tyagnibeda.

The main advantage of living in a big city is the existence of 24-hour bookstores. The main disadvantage is that they are all located far from home. Therefore, most often I am too lazy to go there, and I try to buy something containing letters at a kiosk near the nearest metro. There are, to put it mildly, few books there, and even fewer books suitable for reading.

Just recently the whole world was crazy about them. Intoxicated by the coolness of the solution, people breathlessly admired the high-resolution picture depicting NEW. And they were amazed! Really? Will it be so? The picture, of course, was the result of a magical and professional rendering in a super 3D editor, followed by processing in Photoshop according to all the canons of a deceptive super gloss.

One of the winners of the Presidential Prize for young scientists was Alexei Bobrovsky, a senior researcher at the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University. Alexey is known not only as a chemist, but also as a musician (he plays the drums: www.myspace.com/alexeybobrovsky) and as a blogger (ratamaque.livejournal.com). But the questions of TrV-Nauka correspondent Sergei Popov concern only science.

“We were on a plane yesterday, and I and my colleagues discussed an innovative topic, and key employees of the Government and the Administration of the President of Russia were present there. What we were talking about (there was a fairly illustrative example for me): some outstanding girl of ours first went there and worked there. Apparently, she got tired of everything there and returned to Russia.

So Inuk could look in life 4000 years ago. Image Nature / Nuka Godfredsen from the site www.wird.com M of an annual group of scientists from several European countries, as well as the USA, Australia, China and Russia, by 80% deciphered the genetic code of a person belonging to one of the oldest cultures. The group was analyzing the bundle of his hair, well preserved in permafrost. Hair over 4000 years old was found in 1986. During the excavations of the Kketasusuk parking lot in Greenland.

Photo by Nina Arzamasas E Jnstein did not believe that God plays in bones. Therefore, he was skeptical of quantum mechanics, which allows to withdraw “speculative patterns”. However, it turned out that he was still playing. In 2009, Alexei Starobinsky and Vyacheslav Mukhanov received one of the most prestigious awards in astrophysics for the most important discovery in theoretical physics of the last 30 years.

The orientation and stabilization system on the Moscow State University satellite "University Tatyana-2", launched into orbit in September 2009, failed, which is why all scientific equipment was turned off, the head of the Space Radiation Department of the Research Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University told RIA Novosti Ivan Yashin. Earlier, some media reported that the Tatyana-2 device was out of order and communication with it was lost.

Announcement of the issue Let's give Russia back its brains! (pages 1, 14) The main material of the issue is devoted to the competition of scientific museums held by the Dynasty Foundation. We present a large report from the ceremony of announcing the laureates. Transparent Whirlpool: continued (p. 2) Last December, in the 43rd issue of TRV, the article “The Transparent Whirlpool of Akademintorg” was published.

Irina Levontina I am writing this column after returning from the wake. The amazing scientist and wonderful man Alexander Borisovich Penkovsky has died. Over his long life, he lived and worked in different cities of Russia, in the last seven years in Moscow. Thanks to this, we had the opportunity to enjoy personal communication with him and his brilliant reports, in which the depth of content was combined with the artistry of execution and a slightly old-fashioned professorial speech.

On February 24 at 18.30 in the Great Auditorium of the Polytechnic Museum there will be a lecture “Modern problems of astrophysics: from dark matter to wormholes.” Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Anatoly Cherepashchuk invites you to peer into the vastness of the Universe, try to uncover its secrets and learn about the latest cosmological theories.

Let's give Russia back its brains 02/16/2010 / No. 47 / p. 1 / Natalia Demina, Boris Stern / The problem of popularization / No comments A banner with a slogan consonant with this title was unfurled at the award ceremony for the winners of the next “Science Museum in the 21st Century” competition. The competition is organized by the Dynasty Foundation and is being held for the third time.

- What happens in the world? - And just winter. - Just winter, do you think? - I suppose. Yu. Levitan Approximately with such a heading, a note of a group of researchers under the leadership of James Hansen from the Institute of Space Research was published on the website of the REAL CLIMATE magazine. Goddard at NASA (Goddard Institute for Space Studies). After the “climategate” unfolding in the fall of 2009 (see TRV 2009, No.

We publish the text of the resolution of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences regarding our materials from No. 25 (44) dated December 22, 2009. Considering that readers of the “Trinity Option” themselves are able to compare our text, the text of the resolution, other comments, in particular the letter of Academician A.D. . Nekipelov to Novaya Gazeta and Poisk [1], letter from academician V.V. Ivanter in the journal “Expert” [2], notes by I.