Elena Murchikova A fanty -fantic film about interstellar travels , black holes and other dimensions was released on the screens - “Interstellar” . Its main feature is considered the best than in other tapes , the study of many physical and astrophysical details . Even the book “ The Science of Interstellar ” , written by Kipa Thorne , has been published . Numerous aspects of the phenomena shown in the film are versed in it in detail .

Photo by N. Demina In Moscow, in the 70th year of his life, Valery Sentorov died (March 17, 1945-November 12, 2014)-teacher of mathematics, composer of Olympiad tasks, publicist, religious and public figure, who played a key role in the struggle against anti-Semitism in the Soviet mathematical environment. In the last years of his life, he was seriously ill. Bright memory, dear Valery Anatolyevich. In his presentation, mathematics was unusually attractive.

Daria Lebedeva In the Higher School of Economics , on the basis of the Faculty of Philosophy on November 6 and 7 , the scientific conference “Intellectuals go to the Great War” was held , dedicated to the centenary of the beginning of the First World War .

Alexey Kuznetsov What do you think, dear reader, how many times in the history of the United States did the president of this country invite historians to a conversation of an installation, so to speak, character?

Dear editors ! Despite all the fears of our very progressive public, which considered the Law on RAS last year as the machinations of a bloody gabny, intentionally destroying academic freedom and planting a power vertical in science, Fano behaves as a completely democratic organization, ready to listen to the opinion of the workers.

Representatives of many species pay for contacts with the opposite sexual health and longevity. This fact will not surprise anyone, but now it will not be about how the female burns the used male or dies by washing the resources to frequent mating and the production of numerous offspring, and about sophisticated ways to destroy the partner developed by the males of some invertebrates. A lot of this succeeded tiny round worms, soil nematodes of Caenorhabditis elegans .

Announcement of the issue Presidential message to the muse Clio The head of state met with young historians. Teacher and TV journalist Alexey Kuznetsov looked at their speeches critically - page 3 RAS Academician Alexey Khokhlov proposed financing science in a new way Scientists clarify: how exactly? — page 4 Expert advice from the Higher Attestation Commission Finally cleaned up! — page 5 Philae: on the verge For the first time, a man-made vehicle landed on the surface of a comet!

The Moscow Planetarium, the host of his work since 1929 , notes his 85th anniversary. We publish the responses of astronomers and astrophysicists with congratulations and dreams of the future. Vladimir Surdin, astronomer, associate professor of the Faculty of Physics , Art. scientific. sore. GAISH Moscow State University, Laureate of the Enlightener Prize - What would you wish the Moscow Planetarium on the eve of his anniversary ?

The Philae team says goodbye to the probe.

"Treated Orangutan." Caricature for Charles Darwin in the magazine "Hornet" (1871) On October 31, an event with the charming name "Adam or Monkey: whose children are we children?" Was held at the Kazan Federal University? - An open discussion about the origin of a person between representatives of science and religion. It opened a series of measures to popularize science and rational thinking, organized by the initiative group "Think!" [1] .

Alexey Khokhlov The head of the Council for Science under the Ministry of Education and Science, Vice-Rector of Moscow State University, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Aleksey Khokhlov, answered the questions of scientists who received the FRV-Hungry editorial office after the publication of proposals for financing science in Gazeta.ru [1] . - What is the essence of your proposals?

Why in Russian science centers of collective use? What are their successes and problems? The TRV-hobby decided to figure out the example of the Central Committee for the Belgorod State University, where they are engaged in nanotechnology-in particular, improve the properties of thermoelectric materials, modifying the structure of the TVismuth telluride. This project can be useful for the space industry, metallurgy, and aviation.

Konstantin Plotnikov, A graduate student of IMLI RAS The art of painting is not reduced to reproduction of reality. The XX century proved this perfectly . One of the provocative forms of painting of the last century is abstractionism. Frantiseka Kupka is the brightest figure of abstract art recognized in Europe and almost unknown to the Russian public. An artist who has not entered the history of arts in Russian .

At the end of October 2014, an incredible but quite expected event happened: the expert advice of the Higher Attestation Commission was cleaned! Perhaps not everyone remembers a fascinating story about how the existing expert councils of the Higher Attestation Commission were formed.

Arkady Viktorovich Kryamimsky (January 2, 1949 - November 3, 2014) was an outstanding Russian mathematician, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the field of management theory, chief researcher Mian named after Steklov.