On August 10, 2011, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, while visiting an archaeological site on the site of the ancient Greek city of Phanagoria, sank to the bottom of the Taman Bay. Having risen to the surface, V. Putin, dressed in a wetsuit, was holding two amphorae in his hands, which were partially broken. “The head of the archaeological expedition said that this is VI AD. When ships were unloading at the port, the amphorae were often broken and then thrown overboard,” he explained.

Articles in HTML: 08.11.2011 PDF: TrV No. 22 (91N) for 2011: Rally, science and prosecutors Announcement of the issue Rally, science and prosecutors (page 1) Evgeniy Onishchenko While scientists are demanding increased funding from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and meeting with parliamentarians, the Prosecutor General's Office is conducting checks there and discovering inappropriate spending...

There are quotation marks in the title not only because that is the title of a book I recently read: “V.B. Berestetsky 1 . Prose. Compiled by: Tatyana, Irina, Yulia Berestetsky, Boston - 2010", but also because the word prose , when it is not a literary term, has a figurative meaning: prose serves as a contrast to poetry or the sublime: the prose of a poet , and especially the prose of life . I want the figurative meaning not to interfere.

Marina Astvatsaturyan is a well-known popularizer of science, Ph.D. biol. in Genetics, freelance scientific columnist, author and presenter of a regular column on the Ekho Moskvy radio station, freelance scientific columnist for the Context program on the Kultura TV channel, author of a column in the newspaper of the scientific community Poisk.

In the last issue of the newspaper, I mentioned the statement of the archaeologist Mallowan (Malowan) in a poem by Agatha Christie: ...This is the work we, archaeologists, do. We can't afford wealth. But archaeologists live long And healthy as bulls. As for health, Agatha Christie’s hero boasted, but as for wealth, everything is true.

At the end of July - beginning of August, the last competitions of the Federal Targeted Program “Personnel” were announced for groups led by doctors and candidates of science this year [1].

Dear editors! One of the mysteries of social life that constantly torments inquisitive minds is the problem of the August turmoil and disasters. It is well known that in August something bad almost certainly happens in Russia: coups occur and destructive fires burn, gangs of terrorists invade and submarines sink, fire destroys television towers, and water kills people at power plants. Not to mention all kinds of defaults.

We publish the second part of the interview with Boris Georgievich Saltykov, General Director of the Polytechnic Museum, specialist in the field of economics, organization and management of scientific and technical development. In 1991-1996 He held the post of Minister of Science and Technical Policy of the Russian Federation, and on his initiative the Russian Fund for fundamental research (RFFI) and other state scientific and innovative funds were created. Talked by Natalia Demina.

Bear is white, brown bear (www.zoochat.com) The climate in the Arctic is changing: the temperature is growing, the sea level is also melting. Among the problems generated by these changes, many people are concerned about the question of the fate of white bears. How will they adapt to new conditions, will they have to save them, and if you have to, then how? At one time, the livestock of practically extinct bison was restored, crossing the surviving animals with bison.

Articles in HTML: November 8, 2011 PDF: TrV No. 22 (91N) for 2011: Rally, science and prosecutors Announcement of the issue Rally, science and prosecutors (page 1) Evgeniy Onishchenko While scientists are demanding increased funding from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and meeting with parliamentarians, the Prosecutor General's Office is conducting checks there and discovering inappropriate spending...

African crested rat Lophiomys Imhausi (http://upload.wikimedia.org) African crested rat Lophiomys Imhausi - the poisonous animal who will bite her, he will die. However, this toxicity is not congenital, but a well -made: the animal (s of the animal (the animal captures its coat with a plant toxin, which falls down from the head of the elephant. The crested rat lives in North-East Africa and looks quite harmless.

In the recent issue of Nature (June 16), a short article was published about testing a new drug against melanoma. It says that the new medicine works on almost half of the patients, and after six months 84% ​​of patients remain alive. In the control cohort, which was treated with an old drug that only worked on 5% of patients, 64% survived. What is the effectiveness of the new drug? Let x% of those affected by the medicine survive, and y% of those not affected by it.

Articles in HTML: 08.11.2011 PDF: TrV No. 22 (91N) for 2011: Rally, science and prosecutors Announcement of the issue Rally, science and prosecutors (page 1) Evgeniy Onishchenko While scientists are demanding increased funding from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and meeting with parliamentarians, the Prosecutor General's Office is conducting checks there and discovering inappropriate spending...

My co-authors and I, all my familiar colleagues, and strangers at all, always “post” an article in the archive before publication. At what stage? Who how, and when how.

Two decades on the World Wide Web August 1991 will go down in history for many reasons. Even before the coup, several important events took place. Many people trace the history of the World Wide Web back to August 6, 1991. It was on this day that Tim Berners -Lee published the World Wide Web project in the news group alt.hypertext.