Valentin Ryzhov Within the framework of the project “Living Science”, which started in the TRV No. 15 (134) dated 07/30/2013, the deputy became our interlocutor. Director of the Institute of Physics of High Pressures of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dokt. physical. Sciences Valentin Ryzhov . Our correspondent Alexander Gapotchenko talked with him. Over 90% of the substance of the universe is at pressure, turning 10 thousand atmospheres (10 kbar).

The famous mycological magazine Mycotaxon has a logo with the inscription "Bad Taxonomy Can Kill". Mycology, along with herpetology, is one of the biological disciplines, where a mistake in species identification can cost life. Many people died due to the fact that they could not distinguish a pale bark from raw or champignon.

Rebekah Frumkin The Diary of the Gonkur brothers, even at the Western Department of the Filfak, Moscow State University was not included in the list of “compulsory” literature, but, of course, I should read it even then. However, what could I understand in it without a “background” accumulated for a lifetime? I did not find the original “diary” on the Internet, but in the Belousenko electronic library there is a Goslitizdat abbreviated translation [1].

This is an attempt (according to my recollections of publications in the newspaper “Abroad”) to compare our “wanted the best” with the Japanese experience of restructuring science with a very high positive result. About 40 years ago, Japan's executive elite concluded that they would be far behind the competition by buying patents from the US and Europe. We need to create our own developments!

Photo by E. Strebkova - How would you comment on the probability of transferring physical institutes to the Kurchatov Center? - This issue was considered by scientists of our institution of general physics and our department. There were several options for the agreement, the latter was sent to colleagues four days ago. All our institutions expressed an insistent desire to remain in the old legal status, and unite only within the framework of one general megagrators program.

Every year on May 23, the entire progressive and conservative biological community celebrates the birthday of Carl Linnaeus . And not some banal drunkenness or conferences. But who knows, biologists? May be so. However, for several years now this day has been celebrated in Arizona in the most original way.

Lev Klein We are now experiencing a sunset of Russian science. Russia leaves among the great powers one more parameter - in science. Its fate depends on very little on the scientists themselves, and among them there are too few people thinking about the good of science and understanding what is needed for this. Of the thousands with the linest, academicians and members of the scores, only seven dozen refused to enter the new “Academy”, deprived of property and authority.

Galina Zirina In Part 1 (TRV-HOW, No. 134, 07/30/2013), in connection with “a number of measures to increase wages” at Moscow State University, issues were discussed relatively simple-“organizational”. In the presence of common sense, they are somehow clarified on the basis of regulatory documents, in extreme cases - with the help of lawyers. And in part 2, you will have to discuss issues that do not always have unambiguous answers.

Dear Editor! This Appeal was prepared by parents of high school students who studied at educational centers of a number of institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in the future wanted to become scientists. Therefore, the authors of this document do not necessarily represent the RAS. The appeal was published on the website Democrator.ru , under No. 12116 and is presented below. Unfortunately, despite the importance of the issue raised and the measures taken, voting is sluggish.

Sergey Belkov At first there were fireflies. These insects, as you know, know how to radiate light and use it for their own purposes. Their mysterious lights are a consequence of the amazing reaction of the oxidation of Luciferin, catalyzed by the enzyme by Luciferaz, an extremely effective reaction that turns the energy of chemical connections into light with an unattainable efficiency of the efficiency. Then science came.

Announcement of the issue Who teaches whom and what at Moscow State University The second part of Galina Tsirlina’s research - pp. 2-3 RAS reform The flow of responses (typically negative) does not dry up - pp.

Essays filed for the competition of American Scientist magazine Stanislav Smirnov What is information? Surprisingly, using the information, transmitting and spreading it, remembering and forgetting it, we still do not know the answer to such a simple question: what is it? This question is asked by researchers from various scientific disciplines. Linguists, biologists, anthropologists, mathematics, physicists, chemists.

The scientific electronic library "CyberLeninka", with the support of the Russian State Library, offers free access to a wide range of scientific articles. The main objectives of the project are the popularization of science and scientific activity, public control of the quality of scientific publications, the development of a modern institute of scientific review and increasing the citation rate of Russian science.

Dear editors! Despite the dead holiday season, thoughts and thoughts continue to swirl in the scientific and bureaucratic community. Instead of working on potatoes, cucumbers and tomatoes in their dachas, creating food reserves for the hungry winter, some scientists rush through the empty corridors of institutes, preparing for rallies and protests in the hot autumn.

In Troitsk, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov gave a short interview to our newspaper. Talked by Natalia Demina . I like your newspaper, ”said President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov in anticipation of an interview with a TRV-hobby correspondent.