Konstantin Zveznov In 2007, one of the most mysterious phenomena in modern astrophysicics was discovered: fast radio -bar (Fast Radio Bursts, FRB). The first of them was found in the archival data of the Parks radio telescope (Australia) - a millisecond surge in high -intensity radio radiation, which had a very strong dependence of the frequency signal delay.

Evgeny Onishchenko On December 19, 2016, President Putin signed the law on the federal budget for 2017 and the planning period of 2018 and 2019. Civil science expenses will significantly increase in comparison with last year: about 336 billion rubles are planned for these purposes in 2017. From the federal budget compared to about 268 billion rubles. In 2016.

The sad news came by email from Moscow. On January 5, 2017, Spartak Timofeevich Belyaev passed away. More recently, after his 93rd birthday, he wrote that he was cheerful and efficient. Just recently, his employees were amazed at how he climbed to the fourth floor without an elevator or cheerfully ran across the street to the bus, holding a wand under his arm. More recently, we discussed, via the same email, the properties of phonons and rotons in liquid helium. And now he’s gone...

Large colorful woodpecker Dendrocopos Major Vadim Gavrilov It is well known that on the ground only a strip near the equator is characterized by the lack of seasonal changes in the climate and weather. The farther from the equator, the more seasonal differences in the external living conditions of animals and plants. Annual rhythm is especially pronounced in birds inhabiting moderate and polar zones.

Dear editors ! As science tells us, 2017 is a simple number, but for many of us, the year has traditionally began not easy. What is superfluous proof of vastness and powerlessness of any numerology. However, it is time to slowly move away from the New Year celebrations and start work for the benefit of the Fatherland, which includes for me to write letters in my favorite newspaper.

Natalia Demina At the end of 2016, I conducted a survey of enlighteners about who gave how many lectures for a year, which audience liked the most and whether there were curious cases during performances. Several enlighteners have previously talked about their results of the year on Facebook. So, Sergei Popov noted that he “got more than fifty scientific-pools for the year. Moscow, Peter, Vladimir, Nizhny, Saratov, Ufa, Yaroslavl.

Stanislav Konstantinovich Smirnov - Russian mathematician, winner of the Field Prize (2010), professor of the University of Geneva, scientific director of the Chebyshev Laboratory of St. Petersburg State University, member of the Board of Trustees of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltha). He graduated from the Mathematical and Mechanical Department of St. Petersburg State University (1992) and graduate school of the California Institute of Technology (USA).

The Archae Cultural and Educational Center opens a set for courses Lecture cycle "The Evolution of the Biosphere, or a short course of the reconstruction of the Earth from bacteria to Trump and Putin." Lecturer - Andrey Yuryevich Zhuravlev, professor at the Department of Biological Evolution of Moscow State University named after M.V.

Natalia Reznik The daily way to work and back sometimes affects health more seriously than the labor activity itself. And this problem did not arise yesterday, the ancient Egyptians have already encountered it. This conclusion was received by Anne E. Austin, an osteologist and Egyptologist of Stanford University.

The free network community Dissernet has been posting for the fourth year on its website www.dissernet.org collections of dissertations in which unlawful borrowings are found. These collections are formed on the professional affiliation of the authors. The site is widely represented ministers, judges, prosecutors, doctors, teachers and a lot of people from the most diverse spheres of our lives. However, until recently, lawyers were undeservedly circumvented by the attention of the community.

This photograph of S. T. Belyaev was taken by Felix Israilev in 2008 during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, in the former office of prof. V. G. Zelevinsky. “There were three of us, and S. T. recalled his life, and how he fought, and how he“ worked ”by the rector at the University of Novosibirsk,” the author of the photograph recalls. (Photo was taken during this story) The mournful news came by e -mail from Moscow.

Isaakievsky Cathedral ("Wikipedia") Boris Vishnevsky On January 8, 2017, immediately after the New Year holidays, the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko said that it was decided to transfer the ROC -ROC. Details of the situation are told by a political observer, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky .

The entire issue of the newspaper Trinity Option - Science No. 220 dated January 17, 2017 in PDF Number Materials in HTML The announcement of the room "Big political error of the Russian Orthodox Church" Experts about the intention of the authorities of St. Petersburg to transfer the St. Isaac's Cathedral of the Church-p. 1–2 CAZUS MAKKIARINI Russia needs to answer the petition of doctors of the Caroline clinic - p.

On January 4, 2017, Vitaliy Dmitrievich Arnold, an enlightener, one of the creators of the Moscow Center for Continuous Mathematical Education, Summer Schools in Dubna, a well -known organizer of schoolchildren and extracurricular learning Olympiads, and a teacher of informatics of gymnasium informatics No. 1543, died in a car accident. Farewell to Vitaly took place on January 9 in Moscow. Moscow Mathematical Society (the text is written by the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.A.

Olga Drag Within five years, by 2020, all Russian schools should switch to a new training standard, in which the second foreign language is introduced from the fifth grade as an obligatory subject. Now the former Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Dmitry Livanov explained this innovation by the fact that foreign languages ​​develop memory and increase the intelligence of children. Head. Laboratory of Neurolinguistics of the Higher School of Economics (Moscow), Cand.