Image Kepler 34 Most of the stars in the galaxy are double. There may also be planets. In order for the orbit to be stable, the planet should either turn close to one of the stars (the orbit of the planet is much smaller in double), or the planet should rotate immediately around the pair so that the planetary orbit is much larger than the distance between the stars. It is the second case that is most interesting. The first planet, rotating around double, was opened last year. This is Kepler-16.

CIMEX Lectularius bed bug on human skin It would seem that in our age of cleaning products, powerful vacuum cleaners and automatic washing machines about bugs can be forgotten, but no! Bed bloodsuckers often bother residents of developed countries, the Internet is full of photographs of Europeans demonstrating bitten places. So the fight against bugs is still relevant, but ineffective, because over many years, people have not found out what bugs are attracted and which scare away.

Articles in HTML: 06.11.2012 PDF: TrV No. 22 (116N) for 2012: In captivity of the absurd Announcement of the issue Captivated by the absurd (page 1) The editorial of the issue is devoted to the catastrophic situation that has arisen with the receipt of funds for a number of grant programs. At the same time, everything, as usual, must be spent before the end of the year...

Kirill Mikhailov The TRV-HOWN continues to introduce its readers to popular science publishers and their creators. In this issue, read an interview with Kirill Mikhailov , one of the creators of the KMK scientific publications partnership ( http://avtor-kmk.ru/main_nature.htm ). We learned about this publishing house from the paleontologist Alexander Markov and the scientific journalist Boris Zhukov . Questions were asked by Natalia Demina . - How did your publishing house appear?

On the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Semenovich Spinel On June 24, 2011, a wonderful physicist, a professor of the Faculty of Physics, MSU, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR, chief researcher at NIIIIF Vladimir Semenovich Spinel died. He did not live up to his anniversary very little: on October 4, 2011, Vladimir Semenovich would have turned 100 years old. V.S. The spinel was born in the city of Belaya Church of the Kyiv region.

As fans of television humor know well, “nerve cells do not recover.” Biologists know that this is not so, but that is a subject for another topic. But for the last sixty years, biologists have written in their textbooks that eggs (oocytes) in humans, like in other mammals, are formed only before birth. It turned out not.

A group of Russian scientists made an Appeal to the President and Government of the Russian Federation regarding negative trends in the work of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR). In just a few days, it was signed by 1,250 scientists, including 10 members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 430 doctors and 571 candidates of science. The preparation of the Appeal and the collection of signatures became the first action of the Society of Scientific Workers.

Valery Adzhiev At the request of the TRV-HOW, Valery Adzhiev , senior researcher at the National Center for Computer Animation at the University of Bournmouth, Britain (Bournemouth University, commented on the fall of the university ranking of Moscow State University. On March 15, 2012, the authoritative British weekly Times Higher Education (The) published the “reputation rating” of the world universities (The World Reputation Rankings 2012).

Announcement of the issue RFFI budget increased, but... (p. 1) The issue opens with material devoted to the main fund for supporting Russian fundamental science. The good news is that funding for the foundation will be increased, as scientists have demanded. The bad news is that most of the money will probably not go to well-established initiative projects and other useful programs.

We are publishing a transcript of the speech of our regular author, Dr. Philol. Sciences PM Frumkina at the “TrV-Science Birthday” Let's face it, it was a wonderful newspaper.

Articles in HTML: 06.11.2012 PDF: TrV No. 22 (116N) for 2012: In captivity of the absurd Announcement of the issue Captivated by the absurd (page 1) The editorial of the issue is devoted to the catastrophic situation that has arisen with the receipt of funds for a number of grant programs. At the same time, everything, as usual, must be spent before the end of the year...

Articles in HTML: 06.11.2012 PDF: TrV No. 22 (116N) for 2012: In captivity of the absurd Announcement of the issue Captivated by the absurd (page 1) The editorial of the issue is devoted to the catastrophic situation that has arisen with the receipt of funds for a number of grant programs. At the same time, everything, as usual, must be spent before the end of the year...

“Collapse or Renaissance: Russia and the world through the eyes of science” (M.: Algorithm, 2011) Humanity is threatened with a terrible danger: it is close to the end of “building world domination of the Jewish oligarchy. There is already a shadow world government.

We are publishing a speech by mathematician, Dr. physics and mathematics Sciences A. M. Vershik at the “TrV-Science Birthday” Very, very briefly. The first is a quote. If the “Trinity Option” did not exist, then it would have to be invented. But, fortunately, he appeared. He occupied a niche that was completely unoccupied and now, except for him, is not filled by anyone. And he doesn’t occupy her completely either.

On April 12, the celebration of the birthday of TrV-Science took place in the cafe “ZaVtra”. The evening was opened by Mikhail Gelfand, who noted that “four years ago, when we were just starting this, not a single person, except perhaps Boris Stern, believed that we could hold out for more than six months.”