Alexander Nemukhin On October 9, 2013, the Nobel Committee awarded the Martin Karptus, Michael Levitt Award and Arieh Warshel for creating multi -level models of complex chemical systems. We publish the commentary of Alexander Nemukhin , the doctor. chem. sciences, professor of the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University Lomonosov, head of the laboratory of computer modeling of biomolecular systems and nanomaterials of the Institute of Biochemical Physics named after Emanuel RAS.

Nereevsky excavation in Novgorod. Photo of the 1950s In the field of history and archeology of ancient Rus', as in another field of historical knowledge, large, comprehensive monographs have particular value, and each such study becomes an event and does not lose relevance for many decades. It is enough to recall the famous two -volume "Ancient Kyiv" M.K. Karger and "Architecture of North-East Rus'" N.N. Voronin, later "Russian medieval aesthetics of the XI-XVIII centuries." V.V.

Russian-Israeli program for cooperation in the field of industrial research and development work Announcement on the third selection of Russian-Israeli projects in the field of industrial research and development work 2013 year Applications are accepted until November 25, 2013 As part of the agreement concluded between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the State of Israel on cooperation in the field of industrial R&D, the Fund for Infrastructure and Educational

Irina Levontina It was 20 years old in the tragic events of October 1993 in Moscow. And of course, I could have time to write about it in the last column, but I write with some delay, because it was important for me to listen to what words they say now. And not that it is important to me. This is generally very important - under what name the event remains in history. And in this story, neiming is of particular importance.

Mikhail Konashev It would seem that the struggle of scientists during the three months of the summer and the beginning of the fall of 2013 for the future of Russian science and the country, for the very existence of Russia, has ended, as the skeptics and cynics predicted, of which there are plenty of our country, almost complete defeat.

Active scientists, among other spam, often receive offers to publish articles in new, usually unknown open access journals. We have already talked about how a satirical magazine character was discovered on the editorial board of one of these electronic publications [1]. And last week, many online newspapers published a summary of the story told in the new issue of Science [2]. In short, it looked like all open access journals publish articles without peer review for a fee.

Alexey Paevsky For the man of Soviet Register - first of all, of course, part of the surname of one of the authors of the Soviet anthem. For a slightly more educated person, Registan is, first of all, the area and architectural ensemble in Samarkand, the ancient city in Uzbekistan. Oddly enough, the phrase "Square Registan" is in some way tautology. After all, the literal translation of the word "registan" - "sandy place". The desert is that is. Or, if in the city, then the square.

TRV-hobby has many friends. Among them there are two outstanding citizens, scientists and people with a capital letter, friendship with whom we are very proud and who have been friends with each other for a long time, almost 70 years! There are no special words in the view, their names will say everything for themselves-this is a mathematician, the main researcher at the St.

Alexander Panchin As the constant author of the Trinity Option, Sergei Belkov, noted, "from the point of view of attracting attention and entertainment of racially, a faithful scientific event loses to the anti -criminal event." Perhaps this is associated with the ardent love of the media for the pseudo -scientists, to whom they constantly provide airtime. We need a sensation, a spark, and not a dry and slightly boring story of a specialist.

Announcement of the issue Nobel Prize 2013 Brief review and comments from TrV-Nauka experts - pp. 1, 4-5 Academics-"rejecters" Has their position changed three months later - pp.

It is 20 years since the tragic events of October 1993 in Moscow. And I, of course, could have time to write about this in the last column, but I am writing with some delay, because it was important for me to listen in what words they are talking about it now.

A three-hobby continues to monitor the situation around the detention of a doctor of political sciences, professor of Kuban State University Mikhail Savva. As noted in our article ““ Hunting for Witches ”: Kuban. Next - everywhere? " [1], M. Savva is a researcher whose scientific achievements are serious and undeniable: in particular, he is one of the best specialists on the problems of interethnic relations in the south of Russia.

Sometimes it happens that members of the editorial board disagree on the issue of whether this or that material should be published. This happened with S. Smirnov’s article “Information from matter or matter from information,” published on August 13 of this year. in No. 135: one part of the editorial board believed that this was a funny joke, the other - that it was not at all funny. Moreover, we had absolutely no doubt that this was really a joke.

Sergey Belkov On October 12, 2013, a very rare event took place as part of the science festival in the Darwin Museum - a discussion on the topic of GMOs. Rare, because scientific. Among the participants, representatives of the All -Russian Association of Genetic Safety were usually noticed in this case. Those who are so fond of scorching people who are invented by the frails, whose strange opinions are so willing to listen to individual gifted politicians.

In higher mammals, people, including damaged tissues, are restored much worse than in salamandr and fish, and there is no question of growing a lost finger. It turns out that the loss of the ability to regenerate is a specialization fee. Such a hypothesis was nominated by the specialists of the Department of Cellular Biology of the University of Duke (Duke University) under the leadership of Kenneth D. Poss), observing the behavior of the Danio fish.