I’m not over eighty, but I work a lot - every year I write several books, a dozen articles, reports, and now I write a regular column in the newspaper. So whenever I die, I will die prematurely. I don’t have the slightest belief in “life after death”, in heaven, hell and similar fairy tales. The only real life after death is in a person’s works, in his children and students. So I try to have more of me left.

Block has these lines: Accidentally on a pocket knife Find a speck of dust from distant lands -And the world will appear strange again, Wrapped in a colored fog! This feeling is well known not only to poets, but also to researchers. You accidentally catch on to a fact (in our science it’s usually some kind of example) - and suddenly everything will sparkle with new colors, and the most ordinary thing will turn out to be mysterious.

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...

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...

Your credo? Everywhere! There is one bright star on a gray scientific and political sky. While others are boring about achievements or regret the lost in recent decades, this person, assertive, like a tank, shines with optimism and is ready to take on large -scale, one might even say that epoch -making projects. Nothing is impossible for him, he is ready to lead our country into a new technological way.

This article continues the publication about the observation of exoplanets published in the TRV No. 49, which presents the main facts known at the moment. Repeat the main one. Rice. 1. Protoplanetary disk against the background of Orion's nebula. A picture of the Hubble space telescope. So, 442 planets are known for other stars (at the time of writing the previous article was 429). Almost all of them are much more than the Earth, most comparable in mass with Jupiter.

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...

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...

There is one bright star in the gray scientific and political horizon. While others boringly report on achievements or regret what has been lost in recent decades, this man, as assertive as a tank, shines with optimism and is ready to take on large-scale, one might even say, epoch-making projects. Nothing is impossible for him; he is ready to lead our country into a new technological order.

will be held in Gelendzhik From September 20 to 24, 2010, the scientific conference “Information Technologies and Systems 2010” (ITiS'10) - the 33rd conference of young scientists, organized by the Institute for Information Transmission Problems named after. A.A. Kharkevich Russian Academy of Sciences. The chairman of the ITiS conference board of trustees is academician E.P.

Russian physicists from the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions named after. Flerov of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, together with American colleagues from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed to synthesize the 117th element of the periodic table (conventional name - ununseptium) and thereby fill the missing “cell” in the series of superheavy elements.

One of the creators of the device and its brainchild (the contents of the "suitcase") A unique detector has been developed with the branches of the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Troitsk). It consists of 16 quartz sections filled with liquid organic scintiller, and allows you to measure the flows of fast neutrons with high energy resolution.

Tatyana Pichugina ( sciencewriter.livejournal.com ) has prepared for TRV a new selection of interesting proposals for science journalists and scientists writing about science. A forum of science journalists - Media For Science Forum 2010 (MFSF2010) - will be held in Madrid on May 12-13, 2010. The organizers allocated 50 travel grants in the amount of 500 euros for European journalists and science communicators. Electronic applications will be accepted until April 13.

Photo archive SB RAS Deep -liable edition! In the program “Freedom of Thought” on the fifth channel of March 15, which is conducted by K. Sobchak and A. Weinstein, the problem of the development of fundamental science in the country was discussed. After that, a furious discussion on the Internet flared up. It seems to me that this discussion, like any other, does not bring anything but benefit.

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:...