... thanks to research vehicles, we know that Mars is an empty, hostile world, which will be very difficult to master. But the desire to fly there still warms enthusiasts, which, as it turns out, can be taken advantage of by unscrupulous figures. Writer and journalist Anton Pervushin told TrV-Nauka about this.

On March 15, 2015, the deadline for filing applications for the entry into the expert councils of the VAK. According to the new regulation on the expert councils of the Higher Attestation Commission, the lists of candidates must be published within 10 days so that within another 15 days the scientific community can submit a reasoned objection.

Snow White peak. View from the village of Chitkul. October 2, 2011. Photo by A. Andreev Lev Borkin, Head of the Center for the Himalayan Scientific Research of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists The Satledi River in the state of Himal-Pradesh cuts out several large ridges, including large Himalayas, and goes beyond India, making a sharp turn towards the Holy Mountain of Kylash (Kailas) in the southwest of Tibet.

On April 5, 2015, a rally “For Freedom of Creativity” was held in Novosibirsk in support of the play “Tangaer”, which gathered several thousand people. We publish a video message from the journalist and co -chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Enlightener Award Alexander Arkhangelsky , with whom he came to the participants.

Dear editors ! April is already beginning, but if I look out the window, as I see almost winter weather - snowfalls and all other cold outlook. From observation of this whole non -strip picture it becomes dreary and ugly. But my inquisitive mind tries to find the truth and meaning in everything. Destruction, as Professor Preobrazhensky said, is not in closets, she is in the heads. Exactly the same thing happens in winter - it is in our heads and hearts.

The Central Siberian State Biosphere Reserve in 2015 celebrated the 30th anniversary. Its creation was preceded by fundamental scientific research of the average taiga under the leadership of the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yevgeny Syrochkovsky, which successfully continued on the territory of the new reserve.

On April 24 and 25, 2015, at the Department of Physics and IT of the Moscow Pedagogical State University (MPSU), a festival of fascinating science will be held. On the first day, from 18:00, you are waiting for lectures on sciences and professions for teenagers and their parents. From 12:00 on Saturday, April 25, visitors will have many classes and workshops on a variety of topics - from linguistics to optics, from robotics to the game Rennie.

Announcement of the issue The apotheosis of bureaucratization Askold Ivanchik on the interim results of the RAS reform - page 2 New facts in the Litvinenko case Boris Zhuikov analyzes the materials of the hearings on polonium-210 - pp. 4–5 USA and China: battle of scientific titans Alexey Ivanov about publishing activity in Elsevier journals - page 6 Himalayan Baspa Valley Lev Borkin about the premonition of Tibet - pp.

Architecture - art is not visual, but creative. She does not portray objects, but creates them. You can portray anything from any material by any method. You can only build what justifies itself in practice. A. Burov Rebekah Frumkin The openwork house on Leningradsky Prospekt, 27 (construction of 1940) is well known to Muscovites; Those who are older know him as Burov's house. But that this wonderful house is panel, only architects remember.

Svetlana Yastrebova Surfing and girls, the war in Vietnam, swimming under methamphetamine on a yacht in a Bermuda triangle in a storm, three wives, subordinate in a costume of gorilla. What is it, the chronicles of the punk movement of the 1970s? No. The autobiography of the person whose genome was read one of the first: the book of Craig Venter “Decrypted Life”. The content cannot be dispensed with.

Askold Ivanchik On March 24-25, 2015, a general meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences was held, attended by the Prime Minister and several members of the government [1] . In his speech, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev tried to reassure with the studied words that now all the transformations of science will pass “meaningfully and neatly” [2] .

Alexey Ivanov Alexey Ivanov , Dokt. Geol.-Min. Sciences, Vedas. scientific. sore. The Institute of Earth's Corta of the SB RAS (Irkutsk) conducted an analysis of the publication activity of researchers from different countries using the example of publications in the magazines of the Elzevir publishing house. Competing with each other, scientific publishers launch various and, I must say, convenient services that allow you to evaluate scientometric indicators.

Mikhail Shifman, Dok. physical. sciences, professor at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Minnesota (USA) All that we see around consists of quarks and gluons. Quark-gl ilon interaction is described by quantum chromodynamics -a science created 42 years ago. Despite the solid age and efforts embedded in it with the best minds of mankind, one in quantum chromodynamics remains one not completely solved (some believe that simply unresolved) riddles.

The TRV-hobby continues the publication of a series of articles by a doct. chem. sciences, head. The laboratory of the radioisotopic complex of the Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences Boris Zhuykov dedicated to Polonia. Boris Zhuikov The history of the poisoning of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko continues to grow details thanks to the public hearings that are now in London [1] .

On January 13, 2015, the draft law “I2-2015” (“Immigration and Innovation”) was introduced into the US Senate. The project, which has strong support from both Republican and Democratic senators, would nearly double the annual cap on H1-B temporary work visas, which are the most commonly used visas for U.S. companies to hire qualified researchers, engineers, and programmers, from the current 65,000 to 115. 000 (and with the ability to raise this ceiling to 195,000 if necessary).