Articles in HTML: 12/07/2010 PDF: TrV No. 24 (68N) for 2010: “At least we tried” Announcement of the issue Interview with Minister Andrei Fursenko Mikhail Gelfand asked about who was given mega-grants, how to change examination procedures and what to do with 94-FZ - pp. 2-3 Akademintorg and Co. State procurement of scientific equipment:...

Most of the objects around us are made up of polymers: plastics, rubbers, fibers of our clothing, most films, adhesives, paints, etc. Moreover, we ourselves also consist of polymer molecules: DNA, RNA, proteins, polysaccharides. It was not by chance that nature chose these molecules to implement life processes: polymer systems have low entropy, so they have a pronounced tendency to self-organize.

Articles in HTML: 12/21/2010 PDF: TrV No. 25 (69N) for 2010: Man and Corporation Announcement of the issue Man and the Corporation (page 1) The issue opens with a story about the problems Alexey Krushelnitsky encountered after his publications about Akademintorg. The problem was solved (to a large extent due to...

Popular Science And when the sun becomes a fat hog... (V.V. Mayakovsky) The sun will swell, helium will flare up, At least get high on tryn-grass. The end of sorrows and joys, And the Earth as such. Tired of fears and doubts, From “how could it not work out”, From constant changes Bless the status quo The end of a natural process When, devoured by the muzzle, We will all turn to iron And we will be sold for scrap.

On March 31 at 18.30 in the Great Auditorium of the Polytechnic Museum (Novaya Ploshchad, 3/4, entrance 9), with the participation of the Foundation for the Support of Fundamental Physics, a debate will be held “ Where did the expansion of the Universe begin?” ". Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valery Rubakov and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Igor Tkachev are participating in the debate.

I received a letter with beautiful official letterhead, which stated that in commemoration of my services to science, I had been elected as a full member of the New York Academy of Sciences. Wait congratulations. Firstly, this was 16 years ago. Secondly, I did not accept this election. No, I am not Perelman, I was not offended by the hypocrisy of my colleagues and did not become proud, considering my discoveries above all awards. I respect the opinion of the scientific community.

The newspaper is two years old. Fifty number. 800 lanes. For two years we wrote about a lot, for which we were at the same time praised and scolded. They asked us and ask a lot of questions. Let's try to answer some of them. Let's start with a response to the often arising misunderstanding about the regional affiliation of the newspaper.

Founder of the genre The newspaper is celebrating its anniversary, and one of its regular authors is Rebekka Markovna Frumkina, whose work I admire. Many years ago, she and I met at round tables in the magazine “Knowledge is Power.” I just don’t understand how she manages to read so much. In the humanities, professional reviews died out in Soviet times. Friends wrote if they were asked to do so for a long time, or enemies wrote on their own initiative.

One of the brightest events of recent times is the “human shield” scandal. (On March 5, on the Moscow Ring Road, traffic police officers, in order to catch a thief, stopped several cars and ordered the drivers to turn them around so as to block the road.

An international group of astronomers from Europe, the USA, Australia, Brazil and Chile for the first time managed to discover, using the so-called transit method, a new planet with parameters comparable to those of the planets of the Solar System. Moreover, the mass of the new planet resembles the mass of Jupiter, and its orbit is close to a regular circle (eccentricity 0.11 ± 0.04) and comparable to the orbit of Mercury (0.36 astronomical units).

Tatyana Pichugina ( sciencewriter.livejournal.com ), currently working in the Nanorf.ru , Nanoru.ru , Strf.ru projects , has prepared for TRV a new selection of interesting proposals for science journalists and scientists writing about science. The US National Press Institute is offering journalists an all-expenses-paid training on AIDS (J2J HIV/AIDS Global Media Training 2010) ahead of a major scientific conference in Vienna, Austria. The training will take place July 14-17 in Vienna.

From the main building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the Sparrow Mountains of the web, numerous institutions of the Academy of Sciences disperse. After the collapse of the USSR, the lack of financing, the outflow of scientists and the complete spit of the authorities, the institutions have been falling apart for a long time and inevitably, the Hileli, and the attention to them disappeared. True, not from large business.

After the collapse of the USSR, the lack of funding, the outflow of scientists and the complete disregard of the authorities, the institutes for a long time and inevitably fell apart, grew weaker, and attention to them disappeared. True, not from big business. If scientific value was reduced to nothing, then market value, on the contrary, increased. Each institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is assigned land, which became more expensive from year to year.

A year ago, on Saturday morning, I observed the following scene: the best correspondent of the best popular science program sat huddled in a chair, in a state of deep hangover, was silent, gloomy, and did not respond to external stimuli.

Fans of counting citation indices sometimes divide scientific articles into several categories: more than 500 citation - an outstanding article; 250-499-famous; 100-249-very well-known; 50-99-well-known; 10-49-a well-known article; 1-9-little well-known; And 0 is completely unknown.