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.

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.

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.

Yuri Reshetnyak Introduction For the past few years, the Russian Academy of Sciences, from academics to younger scientists, lived in the foreboding of a disaster.

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.

James Rotman (born in 1950, US citizen, employee of Yale University). Randy Shekman (1948, USA, University of California in Berkeley, Medical Institute of Howard Hughes, USA). Thomas Zyudhof (1955, Germany, USA, University Stanford, Hovard Hughes, US Medical Institute, USA). Michael Levitt (1947, citizenship - USA, Great Britain and Israel, University Stanford, USA). Martin Karplus (1930, Austria and the USA, works at Harvard (USA) and Strasbourg University (France)).

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.

Andrey Olenin One way to confirm or refute one or another hypothesis is the use of mathematical, in particular statistical, methods. In this sense, the statistics of the results of the exam are no exception. Every year we have a selection of almost a million individual results of exams throughout the country. It is quite possible to apply the law of large numbers to it. Trends in the development of our secondary education cannot but be reflected in statistical data.

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.

At the beginning of October 2013, the Chilean Atacama Desert turned into Mars for a week: a group of scientists and engineers came here to conduct full-scale tests of the prototype of the automatic Mars rover they had developed. A prototype of the Bridget rover, which is due to go to the Red Planet in 2018 as part of the European Space Agency's ExoMars mission, was brought to the Southern European Observatory for testing.

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.

Alexey Merkuryevich Gilyarov On October 20, 2013, after a serious illness, a wonderful ecologist, beloved by many generations of students of biofica lecturer, the author of the classical textbook “Population Ecology” for university students, enlightener and popularizer of science, organizer and permanent leading part of musical evenings at the BBS of Moscow State University, professor of the Department of General Ecology, Aleksey Mercuryevich Gilyarov, passed away.

Boris Stern Before the award of the Nobel Prize, Thompson Reuters traditionally publishes its version of three leading nominations. This year, the three physics leaders looked as follows: - For the prediction of Bozon Higgs - Francois Engler, Peter Higgs. - For the opening of superconductors based on iron - Hideo Hosono. - For the opening of extround planets (exoplanets) - Michelle Major, Didier Kelo, Jeff Marsii.

Yuri Ivlev The reason for this note was a survey conducted by the highest certification commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation on October 8 regarding the introduction of a single -level system of scientific degrees.