Blood! Its smell excites and leads along the trail of the predator, and brings the victim to awe and turns to flight, even if this blood belongs to an animal of a different species. In some cases, this smell allows us to establish the reproductive status of the female. It is natural to assume that in the blood of mammals of different species there is some kind of general odorous component, recognized by everyone.

The title of the discoverer of mobile genetic elements rightfully belongs to the Nobel laureate of the American Genetics Barbar McClint, which in the middle of the last century discovered their activity in the genome of corn. And before it, some researchers turned their attention to the mysterious perestroika in the genome and mutations that could not be explained by the then knowledge.

Andrey Demidov, co -chairman of the Teacher's Interregional Trade Union, in 2004-2014 an employee of the Institute "Collective Action" Recently, an interview with Santa Claus was printed in one of the magazines. An experienced artist notes: in recent years, our fellow citizens began to smoke less and abuse alcohol (at least December 31), dress better and monitor health.

George Chernyavsky, doct. East. Sciences, professor of the University. Jones Hopkins (USA) The texts of the former Moscow mayor Yu.M. Luzhkova seems to indicate that he took up something in the middle between history and political science, and as an object of his developments he chose the latest history of China, in particular, the biography of the famous leader of this country Dan Xiaopin.

Dear editors ! Valery Rubakov On December 27, I sent by e -mail a letter to the chief editor of the Izvestia newspaper Alexander Potapov with a request to publish my replica. I received no answer. Please publish this replica in your newspaper. Here she is. On December 25, 2014, the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Andrei Alexandrovich Fursenko gave a large interview to Izvestia.

Rebekah Frumkin To multi -reading people are familiar with the situation when an attempt to only clarify something - perhaps not too significant - leads to an acute experience of their own ignorance. By the warehouse of the mind, I am not erudite, and therefore I mainly suffer not from ignorance of the facts, but from misunderstanding of logical connections in (supposedly) developed material. ... I read about Dutch painting, forced to limit myself to available on the Internet.

Rice. O. Feigelman At the ethnogenesis, ethnic and socio-political history, the genesis of the language and culture of the Karachay-Balkarian people, who took place at the end of 2014, performed by the Academic Conference. chem. Sciences Anatoly Kleosov , claiming that he created a new science, which, according to the formulas of chemical kinetics, reconstructs the history of peoples.

Anna Muradova, Ph.D. Filol. sciences, Art. scientific. sore. Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Seven years ago, several friends met in the city of Renn, former classmates-philologists who once studied together at the Department of Breton and other Celtic languages ​​of the University of Renn-2.

A couple of decades ago, when the generation born in the first third of the 20th century was still alive, the vast majority of Breton speakers learned the language at home and spoke one of four dialects. There were no questions for them about how to speak the language and how not to...

Mikhail Rodkin, doct. physical. sciences, ch. scientific. sore. ITPZ RAS Recently, large -scale reforms of science, education, and medicine have been implementing in the country. The need for reforms in these (and many other) areas in most cases is not in doubt. However, the response to the reforms was mass protests of scientists, doctors, teachers, and reviews of reforms are full of expressions such as “last blow”, “defeat”.

Daria Lebedeva The State Public Historical Library of Russia has published a series of books for the centenary of the First World War. All these are sources, personal evidence, memoirs, notes, diaries that have not reprinted for almost a century.

Over the two years of Dissernet's functioning, his activity has acquired a fairly impressive scale. By the beginning of 2015, more than 2 thousand examinations of linden dissertations were prepared by the dissertation community. The general statement includes about 9.7 thousand names of dissertations. Now Dissernet reveals not so much individual owners of linden degrees as a network of fake dissertations and methods of their organization.

The archive of electronic preprints arXiv.org has existed for more than twenty years. There are more and more articles in it, and the number of areas covered by the archive is also increasing. At the beginning of 2014, it was clear that in about a year the archive would grow enough to overcome the barrier of a million e-prints. Everyone was wondering: will they make it in time for the New Year? We didn’t make it in time for Christmas (December 25), but right after - yes!

Vladimir Putin signed a list of instructions following a meeting of the Council for Science and Education held on December 8, 2014. Among them, the government of the Russian Federation was instructed to issue a regulatory legal act by June 1, 2015, providing for an increase in the size of the monthly monetary payment to members of the RAS for the title of academician - up to 100 thousand rubles. per month, for the title of corresponding member - up to 50 thousand rubles. per month.

Lev Klein Archaeological literature on burials and funeral rites, of course, is extremely plentiful, but the book of the Moscow archaeologist Yuri Alexandrovich Smirnov is still apart. For this category of books, it is called strangely: “the eternal light of life”, and its content is revealed only in the subtitle: “Sacred texts and funeral traditions” (Moscow, ed. “Man”, 2013). Alas, we know from astrophysics that the world is final, and, as it was born once during the big explosion, it may die.