... 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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] .

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.

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.

On April 1, 2015, our newspaper turned seven years old. Created in 2008 by his editor -in -chief Boris Stern in a slightly spontaneous and almost first -Aprilian way, she continues to work quite seriously . Over the year, who has passed since the previous birthday , our “first -grader” received two awards at once - a special prize of the Enlightener Prize and the “For Fidelity of Science” Award , established by the Ministry of Education and Science.

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] .

Continuation. For beginning , see the Trv-Hawk No. 175 of March 24, 2015. Alexander Drozdov, cand. Geogr. Sciences, Vedas. scientific. sore. Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences In the late 1990s and in the 2000s, there were no significant events in the life of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The general trend was a gradual weakening of the support of the Academy and Science in general from the state.

Natalya Ivanova-Gladilshchikova On March 28, the final stage of the All -Russian Olympiad of schoolchildren started. The victory in this intellectual championship of Russia for children from 15 to 18 years gives the right to enter a university without exams. The price of the issue is high. Therefore, it is so important to understand how objectively and honestly the final of the All -Russian Federation takes place. Natalya Ivanova-Gladilshchikova talks about the problems of the Olympics .

Lev Klein Speaking at the anniversary of one of his teachers, academician Boris Piotrovsky (Piotrovsky Sr.), I read the verses of my own compositions dedicated to the hero of the day. There were such lines: As soon as we sat down at the desk , Already crammed about Urartu . It was true. Since 1930, Piotrovsky, along with Armenian colleagues, began his research on monuments to Urartu. Urartu was the first state in the territory of the Soviet Union - our first state.