Stephen Hawking In January of this year, Vyacheslav Mukhanov and Stephen Hawking received the International Prize "Borders of Knowledge in Fundamental Science." Generally speaking, this is another major prize, which in one combination or another receive these two laureates for the work of thirty -five years ago. More than two years ago, we already wrote about the previous award received by Mukhanov along with Alexei Starobinsky.

President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov at the opening of the monument to the Nobel laureate in physics Alexander Prokhorov July 9, 2015. Photo - Antares 610 "The ball is on our side" On the eve of the Day of Science, February 4, 2016, a press conference of President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov was held at the Russia Today MIA today . We publish a short interview with Vladimir Evgenievich. Talked by Natalia Demina .

Olga Orlova Residents of Russia use more than a hundred languages ​​to communicate. But not all of them are well described by the linguists. And some may disappear at all without waiting for their researchers. Is it possible and necessary to maintain language diversity? About this Olga Orlova , the host of the Hamburg account program on public television of Russia, asked Sergei Tatvosova , Dokt. Filol. sciences, professor of Moscow State University named after MV Lomonosov.

I would very much like to divide the “cautious optimism” of Sergey Vladimirovich Krivovich, but it doesn’t work. Because cunning is. (Just in case, I’ll make a reservation: I in no way make claims to Professor Krivovichov, nor to Deacon Krivovich; all my assessments relate to the stated system of statements, quite typical).

Russian mathematician, head of the sector of algebra and number theory at the Institute of Information Transmission Problems (IPTP) RAS, vice-rector for scientific work at the Independent Moscow University, leading researcher at the French National Scientific Center (CNRS), Dr.

Natalia Reznik The octopuses are single creatures, they are found only for mating, brief and dangerous, because the female may well eat a partner. Mindful of this, the male tries to stay from her as far as possible and the spermatofor into the mantle cavity of the female introduces a special tentacle. A fertilized female lays a fair portion of eggs and dies. The picture is unconscious, and we are glad to report that a clearance appeared in it.

Geochronological scale Fanerozoy. Mnemonic cheat sheet: “Every excellent student should smoke cigarettes. You, Yura, small - grow up by a quarter " What are the genuine causes of mass extinctions of biological species tens and hundreds of millions of years ago? Scientists break spears, protecting different hypotheses.

Kirill Kopeikin To the question of the TRV- science, why theology of the modern university answered Kand. physical .- Mat. sciences, cand. Theology, director of the scientific and theological center of interdisciplinary research of St. Petersburg State University, associate professor of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, rector of the university church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, Archpriest Kirill Kopeikin .

Askold Ivanchik The doct told about his attitude to the emergence of theology in Russian secular universities . East. sciences, member- Corr. RAS, ch. scientific. sore. Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Council of RGNF, deputy. Chairman of the Council for Science under the Ministry of Education and Science Askold Ivanchik . - How do you feel about the emergence of aunts or departments of theology at Russian universities ?

One hundred years ago, Karl Schwarzshild , the 42- year-old director of the astrophysical observatory in Potsdam and an artillery officer of the German army, made important calculations in the front-line hospital in Russia and, thanks to Albert Einstein , published two articles that paved the way to create the theory of black holes. In May 1916 , he died of bubbles. Alexei Levin read fateful texts in the original and decided to share the conclusions with readers of the TRV- science.

Alexey Zygmont, graduate student of the school of philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities of the Higher School of Economics All of us have the so -called problems with relatives - first of all, probably with parents, although the world's first fatal quarrel, according to the Book of Genesis, still took place between the brothers.

When they talk about the existence of a special stream of “scientific poetry” in the work of O. E. Mandelstam, most often they mean poems that are thematically related or entirely devoted to one or another direction of scientific thought... Meanwhile, in the poet’s heritage it makes sense, it seems to us, to highlight and comment on another phenomenon, at once more specific and more comprehensive, directly linked to his interest in the language of scientific knowledge.

Anna Dybo The linguist, a doct, answered the post-day questions of the TRV-hobby. Filol. sciences, professor, member. RAS, head. Department of the Ural-Altai languages ​​of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Anna Dybo . Talked by Natalia Demina . - What to do to the scientist in the folding of the socially and political SI Tainia ? Can a scientist develop science in modern Russia and what is needed for this ?

Rice. M. Smagina Dear editors ! My dear colleagues and friends ! I congratulate all of you on the newly past day of Russian science, our professional holiday. It is beautiful that we have it, that we, in spite of everything, can be proud of ourselves and our profession, our work inconspicuous and incomprehensible from the part! What did I think about, raising my second glass already with a feeling of legitimate pride and tears in my eyes? About a lot and different.

Andrey Rostovtsev, doct. physical. sciences, and. O. Vedas. scientific. sore. Laboratory No. 5 (“Quantum Physics and Information”) According to the number of candidates and doctors of sciences with dissertations, who, simply put, are roughly glued from other people's work, teachers are in second place after economists.