The “Genoma of the Naked Sino” is not the name of the novel by Pelevin or Sorokin, although this text is read, consisting of 2 billion 700 million letters, with no less interest. The point is the unusual of a living creature, the genome of which was described on October 12 in the electronic preprint of Nature magazine. Mikhail Gelfand says what this study and its object are remarkable.

The origin and development of "extremes" Today it is difficult to believe in this, but the fact remains: whatever the intensity of public passions at different periods of Boris Yeltsin’s reign, in the actual legislation in the 1990s, in principle, there was no concept of “extremism” and there were no state structures engaged in the fight against “extremism”, the prevention of “extremism”, etc.

The relative concentration of hydrogen isotopes in Comet Hartley 2, according to the HIFI spectrometer on the Herschel spacecraft (ESA), corresponds to what is observed in the Earth's oceans. This result, according to Paul Hartog of the Society's Institute for Solar System Research. Max Planck (Germany), confirms the hypothesis that water on Earth is of cometary origin.

The costs of the most popular statistical parameter is perhaps the most popular statistical parameter (hereinafter - the average). This concept is used everywhere - starting from the saying “average temperature in the hospital” and ending with serious scientific works. However, oddly enough, the average meaning is an insidious concept, often misleading, instead of giving clarity to the presentation and making clarity.

Russian physicists almost accidentally discovered a new form of self-organization in hydrodynamics. The discovery was made by a group from the Laboratory of Macrokinetics of Nonequilibrium Processes of the Department of Wave Phenomena of the Scientific Center for Wave Research of the Institute of General Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences under the leadership of Georgy Shafeev.

Among the many responses to the rally of scientists that took place on October 13, there are a couple that are not exactly critical, but rather provocative. Moreover, in terms of logic and style, one of these responses is extremely poor quality, the second is quite masterful. Let's start with the first one, although there is a rule - do not respond to bad attacks from trolls. However, sometimes it is not a sin to break this rule for educational purposes.

We continue to publish a series of articles of the flavorist, the head of the development of Sergei Belkov’s food additives, about popular food myths and food. Validity One of the attributes that determines the value of any tool, any methodology is validity. The term means that the tool should measure what it must measure. We can determine the temperature of the body by the thermometer, but we cannot measure the refractive indicator for them.

Announcement of the issue Scientists came to the square (page 1) Evgeniy Onishchenko A rally of scientists took place in Moscow on October 13. It was devoted mainly to the bureaucratic problems that researchers have to face, as well as the need to increase the share of effective funds (RFBR and RGNF) in financing science. Several materials in this issue are devoted to this topic.

It looks ridiculous to contact your work colleague through the press; it would seem possible to talk in person, but not in this case. A lie publicly promulgated requires a public response.

ESA/CNES/Arianespace - S. Roscosmos and Esa Corvaja, 2011 October 21 at 14.30 Moscow time. From the Guyan Space Center, the Russian Ruis-ST launch vehicle with two spacecraft (KA) of the European Navigation System Galileo took place. In 18 hours 19 min. The spacecraft successfully separated from the accelerated block "Fregat-MT" and began an autonomous flight.

The rally on October 13, 2011 on (new) Pushkinskaya Square, organized by the RAS Workers' Union together with a number of youth and other associations, turned out to be noticeably more expressive than the previous rally on October 21, 2010, which the RAS PR had to be held in a deserted corner on the Shevchenko embankment .

As a child, I read out space science fiction. I remember that a separate impression on me was made by a thin book in the soft cover “I have a spacesuit, ready to travel” Robert Heinlin. Still, the main character and I were almost the same age. And we had the only dream - to fly to the moon. Educational experiments are regularly conducted on the ISS, the results of which can be used by schoolchildren (and even be directors).

In this article I want to summarize the problems existing in Russian science and propose a simple, but, it seems to me, effective solution. It is difficult to characterize the situation in domestic science as anything other than catastrophic. The state, while verbally advocating for science, has placed scientists in conditions in which any productive research work is impossible.

I. National research universities Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated October 7, 2008 No. 1448 “On the implementation of a pilot project for the creation of national research universities”, without competition, this status was assigned to the first two universities: MEPhI (National Research Nuclear University) and MISiS (National Research Technological University). The status is established for a period of 10 years.

The academic year 2011-2012 was declared the Russian-German year of science, education and innovation. A huge role in the process of strengthening bilateral scientific cooperation is assigned to German funds. The Correspondent of the TRV-HUNDAY met with Peter Stefanovich , a representative of the Foundation named after Humboldt in Moscow asked him about the work of the Fund.