As if fabrications could be true. Anyway. For quite some time now, when I move from Okhotny Ryad to Teatralnaya on the metro, I hear one announcement that I think about every time. It says that unauthorized advertising is prohibited in the subway. The announcement is read by a female voice with a characteristic timbre and with the characteristic meaningful intonation of a Soviet announcer.

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...

On July 18, it will turn a year since the launch of the Radio -Astron space radio telescope. The case is moving, the radio telescope was successfully tested in the fall in the interferometer mode with ground radio telescopes. The other day, two press releases were published, for numbers 13 [1] and 14 [2]: the first reports on the next methodological promotion, the second is devoted to the first scientific results. Rice. 1.

The bed bug is making its way between the hairs. Photo: "Wikipedia" (Phil.cds.gov/Phil) A person stands out among primates with his hairlessness. In theories, explaining why he has lost the wool, there is no lack. And there is nowhere to hide the parasites on bare skin, and it is more convenient to climb into the water, and adjust the body temperature.

Full text of the article (doc) How are things with science in Russia? Mikhail Zelensky Find the answer to the question of how things are with science in Russia or, for example, in the Kingdom of Tong, just never more than ever, just look into the bottomless databases of Web of Science or Scopus. There is everything.

Andrey Kalinichev When reading the article by Mikhail Zelensky about the state and prospects of science in Russia, some kind of dual feeling did not leave me.

If you can imagine a murderer bacterium, then, of course, these are the bacteria of the Wolbachia group, which settled in insect cells and also affect their development and reproduction. In some cases, Wolbachia kills its male masters. Although this phenomenon is well known, the molecular mechanism of the death of males infected with volbahia is unclear.

In 1952, a forty-year-old geometer, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Alexander Danilovich Alexandrov (1912-1999) became the rector of the University of Leningrad (1912-1999). In 1964, he left the rector’s post, was elected an academician for a vacancy for the Siberian branch and moved to the Novosibirsk Academgorodok.

I often hear that all store-bought food doesn't taste good and we can never make anything even close to home-cooked food. I, of course, disagree. I know for sure that this is not entirely true; there are a lot of worthy products on sale. It's just about different tastes. We humans are extremely biased in our perception of the world around us.

I often hear that all store-bought food doesn't taste good and we can never make anything even close to home-cooked food. I, of course, disagree. I know for sure that this is not entirely true; there are a lot of worthy products on sale.

Perhaps it will not be a secret to anyone that by coming to Moscow or St. Petersburg and renting an apartment daily, you can save money, but few people know how to rent an apartment and not be deceived. But there is nothing complicated here, all you need to do is simply turn to professionals who have been on the Moscow rental market for several years and offer all services in this area.

Dear editors! Recently, there have become fashionable talk that our science is needed to deburocatization as air. Say, instead of doing research, scientists only do what all kinds of papers write. Huge applications, to which you need to attach tens and hundreds of different certificates and documents; The endless reports of the sometimes frightening thickness - in these and similar bureaucratic pools, any possibility of work is drowning.

Tamarisk sheet. Photo: "Wikipedia" American biologists from the University of California at Santa Barbara have developed a new method of struggle with the malicious weed of Tamarisk using a beetle of a leaflet eating this plant. By adjusting the number of the beetle by changing its life cycle, they achieved more effective extermination of the weeds. Research results are published in the journal Evolutionary Applications.

This is not the first time I have seen such hysteria here. All this would only be appropriate on the Echo of Moscow website in the comments. Kovalchuk did not say “the number of articles has increased” or “the impact has increased.” A journal with a volume of 200 articles cannot suddenly publish 400. Maybe he meant the number of submitted articles, maybe the amount of work of the editorial board, maybe the amount of spending on reviewers, maybe the quality level.

Photo by S. Shishkin It is said that during the Second World War commandant Copenhagen occupied by the Germans issued a decree that all Jews, going out into the street, were obliged to put on yellow stars. The next day, the inhabitants of Copenhagen, including the King of Denmark, massively took to the streets with yellow stars. The decree was not that canceled, but simply sent by the forest. Perhaps this is just a legend.