Recently, in connection with the crash of the Costa Concordia, which again brought to mind the circumstances of the recent crash of the Bulgaria, the word negligence is constantly heard. And in roughly the following contexts: How does Italian/European negligence differ from Russian sloppiness/Russian “maybe”?

Articles in HTML: 05/08/2012 PDF: TrV No. 9 (103N) for 2012: Why is science needed in Russia? Announcement of the issue Save ITEP: up the stairs leading...? The chronicle of events at the country's most important physics institute is analyzed by Andrey Rostovtsev - page 3 A tool not for cracking nuts What the Unified State Exam can and should not be, using the example...

Articles in HTML: 05/08/2012 PDF: TrV No. 9 (103N) for 2012: Why is science needed in Russia? Announcement of the issue Save ITEP: up the stairs leading...? The chronicle of events at the country's most important physics institute is analyzed by Andrey Rostovtsev - page 3 A tool not for cracking nuts What the Unified State Exam can and should not be, using the example...

Biochemists from Kazan Federal University under the leadership of the senior teacher of the Department of Microbiology, Dokt. Biol. Sciences Ravil Fahrullin took another step in the development of “cell therapy” - treatment by introducing ordinary or stem cells into the human body. They developed a method of applying magnetic tags to the introduced cells, which then allowed to move them to the human body. The work was published in the Langmuir journal of the American Chemical Society [1].

This text is not an attempt to open your eyes, not an ultimatum, not a petition, and not even a cry from the heart. This is a spell, a mantra, which, out of hopelessness and impotent anger, a person clenches his teeth and repeats to himself, just so as not to turn into an animal.

Highlighting the main discoveries of 2011, Nature magazine put in the first place the detection of the dynamic effect of Casimir (see the full list in [1]). The results of the study were published in the article [2]. Below are a dozen main facts regarding this significant scientific work. 1. The dynamic effect of Casimir is the emission of electromagnetic waves with a moving mirror (or other object). Image: Wikipedia 2.

On September 13, 2011, the Republican presidential candidate Michelle Bakman mentioned the MSNBC channel live about how, after the debate, a woman came up to her and said that her daughter became mentally enthusiastically after vaccination from the papalloma virus. This story was used to attack another republican candidate, Texas governor Rick Perry, who in 2007 signed a law on mandatory vaccination against this virus of all girls aged 11-12 years.

Photo by A. Artamonov An instructive story about attempts to influence researchers on the bureaucracy, or a story about how we sought to amend the law on public procurement One of the most serious problems of Russian science is colossal bureaucratic pressure on it. The number of all kinds of papers that researchers and teachers have to fill out for any reason is amazing. Worse, the labyrinths of the Russian regulatory framework often turn the simplest thing into an intractable task.

The TRV-HO-NAUKA is regularly writes about the Radio Astron project, and this is not surprising-the first successful Russian astrophysical project over the years has become the main source of good news about space science. In No. 93 of December 6, 2011, we reported that the Radio Astro group began the search for interference “petals”-peaks of the correlation of the signal from the space radio telescope at ground-space bases.

Articles in HTML: 01/29/2013 PDF: TrV No. 2 (121N) for 2013: Two cultures, or Devastation in the minds Two cultures or devastation in our heads (editorial). Page 1Sergey Popov “Lectures are our duty” K. Severinov, V. Surdin, A. Oganov, Dm. answer questions from N. Demina and S. Popov. Wiebe, M. Krongauz and T. Chernigovskaya. Page 2-3 Economics...

A detailed 589-page study released last week by the US National Science Foundation (NSF Science & Engineering Indicators 2012; www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind12/ ) points to two telling global trends in the funding of modern research and development (R&D): .

Remember the episode from the beginning of the story of Arthur Conan Doyle “Scandal in Bohemia”? Or a similar episode from the first series of the Soviet film about Sherlock Holmes "Acquaintance"? Holmes asks Watson the question: how many steps at the stairs leading to Baker Street. In the film, Watson responds uncertainly (eight? Seven?), And in the book he does not take to answer at all - does not know. But he went through these steps hundreds of times.

The Russian State Duma elections that took place on December 4 left few people indifferent. Many researchers have turned to the analysis of voting data. Publications with a detailed analysis of statistics appeared in TrV-Nauka and other popular publications, and they were also posted in the e-print archive arXiv.org . A variety of authors have paid attention to certain oddities in samples. Of course, they started talking about obvious oddities.

It is possible to force people to act for the benefit of society by the power of moral influence. This conclusion was the specialists of the Canadian University of British Columbia and the German Institute of Evolutionary Biology of the Max Planck Society (Max Institute for Evolution Biology).

E. CHEN. Photo by V. Vasilyeva, hro.org On January 11, 2012, a meeting of members of the Presidential Council for Human Rights with representatives of the Public Committee for the Protection of Scientists, the chairman of this organization, academician Yuri Alekseevich Ryzhov and executive secretary Ernst Isaakovich Black, took place. The subject of the discussion was the fate of scientists, unreasonably accused of the FSB of state treason.