Looking at glass, it is difficult to imagine that this material has a rather complex structure. It seems absolutely amorphous, although in fact this idea is wrong. Oddly enough, it took modern science centuries to understand this. Not a crystal or liquid Externally, glass is very similar to ice. Certain parallels can be drawn between them: both substances are formed from crystals (water or quartz), which first melt and then, quickly cooling, acquire such an unusual appearance.

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Evgeny Onishchenko On "mourning festivities" for the wounds of the State Duma, July 5, 2013. Photo by N. Demina In connection with the authorities that suddenly ripened the desire to eliminate the wounds, it is useful to try to understand whether the state of affairs at the Academy is so deplorable that you can’t do without emergency measures? Scientific data definitely say that this is not so.

In a modern society of abundant food, people often forget how temporary this abundance is. After all, we are not the only ones on the planet who want to eat. There are a lot of people who want our food in nature.

Sergey Belkov In modern society, an abundance of food often forgets how abundance this abundance is temporary. After all, we are not alone on the planet who wants to eat. There are a lot of wishing to our food in nature. Steel rust is a disease of cereals caused by mushrooms. A parasite that turns the stalk of wheat into a red straw is able to make a pile of brushwood out of a flashing field in a couple of weeks.

For the third time, the authors of the Biomolecule website are holding a competition for the best popular science article about the achievements of modern biology - molecular biology, biophysics, biomedicine, bio- and nanotechnologies. Anyone can participate in the competition (regardless of age, specialty and citizenship), who can correctly and clearly tell an unprepared reader about biomolecular science.

Rebekah Frumkin Dmitry Bykov wrote the book “Soviet Literature. Short course ”(M.: Proseik, 2013). In my opinion, this is undoubted luck. I generally like, as Bykov says/writes about literature, and his Jesaeovsky Pasternak is completely a good caliber. And the book "Was Gorky?" It also turned out excellently. At the same time, Bykov, as the author of the novels, is not at all close to me - I read only two, and even then not without effort.

Budva is one of the regions of Montenegro, covering an area of ​​more than one hundred and twenty square kilometers. The administrative center is the city of the same name, which has the status of a world-famous resort city. The city of Budva, among other things, is a valuable historical site, on the territory of which there are a lot of monuments of ancient architecture. The landscape of the area seems to be designed for organizing tourist services.

Alexey Ivanov Justifying the need for the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov and Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets cast reproaches that the Russian Academy of Sciences occupied only 193rd in the world. This position appears thanks to the rating of Nature Publing Group [1], taking into account the total number of publications in the journals of this publishing house. In the same rating, Harvard University (USA) leads a large margin.

Open letter Deputy Head of the Science Council under the Ministry of Education and Science, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Askold Ivanchik to Dmitry Livanov To the Minister of Education and Science Russian Federation D.V. Livanov Dear Dmitry Viktorovich! I have always considered election to the Russian Academy of Sciences to be the highest recognition of a scientist’s merits in our country.

Andrey Rostovtsev The Academicians undeservedly offended by the authorities recently have one question on his lips: “Who wrote all this?” Someone speculates that the draft law on reform was born almost within the walls of the Kurchatov Institute, someone is blaming for the authors of the “modeling charter” of the 2007 Academy, and someone ... even scary to say ...

The night sky is an arena of the great battle of butterflies and bats. Mice hunt, butterflies try not to get into their teeth. The main thing is to prevent the predator from getting closer to inaudibly. During the evolution of different insect detachments, at least 19 times, hearing organs arose, capable of fixing the ultrasound signals of bats.

It seems that the authors of the bill on reform of the Academy of Sciences, who initially planned to complete the defeat of the Russian Academy of Sciences in a few days, greatly underestimated both the enemy himself and the level of his external support.

The authors of the site "Biomolecule" for the third time hold a competition for the best popular science article on the achievements of modern biology- molecular biology, biophysics, biomedicins, bio- and nanotechnologies. Everyone can participate in the competition (regardless of age, specialty and citizenship), capable of correctly and affordable to tell an unprepared reader about biomolecular science.

A person actively affects the environment, and affects negatively. Rare species suffer from his actions. The question of how much the ecosystems will suffer, if they lose rare species, French researchers studied with the participation of Australian, American and British colleagues under the leadership of Wilfried Thuller, professors of the University. Joseph Fourier.