Natalia Reznik Hundreds of millions of people around the world have a fever, and has not yet been able to cope with it. There are no drugs from Dengu, Zika and Chicunga. Experts tried to fight the infection carriers - mosquitoes of yellow -bearing AEDES AEGYPTI, draining the reservoirs where their larvae live, but also to no avail. Mosquitoes continue to bother, and the list of diseases they transfer are continuously replenished.

The publishing house of Alpina Non-Fikshn, with the support of the Trajectory Foundation, was published by the new book of the astronomer, laureate of the Enlightener Prize, Vladimir Surdin, “The Universe in questions and answers. Tasks and tests on astronomy and astronautics. ” The new book includes 181 tasks, 50 questions and 319 tests with answers and decisions.

The articles of Vanda Tilles [1] and Murat Choshanov [2], open letters to the leadership of the Ministry of Education and Science [3, 4] teachers of higher school pose an acute problem of prohibitive teaching (auditorial) loads and excessive, ineffective regulation of their labor, or simply stationery. I am completely in solidarity with colleagues and I believe that the problem, although it is not the only one, plays a decisive role in reducing the quality of higher education.

According to the World Health Organization, from 250 to 500 thousand people dies from influenza. Due to the fact that this virus quickly mutates and becomes resistant to drugs, it is very difficult to develop an effective vaccine against it. In Russia, scientists from the Research Institute of influenza in St. Petersburg are trying to solve this problem. They created a special antivirus RNA against pork flu (H1N1).

The collage uses photos from the Fano website and the fictional “portrait” of Prutkova, created by L. M. Zhemchuzhnikov, A.E. Beideman and L. F. Lagorio On April 14, 2017, the head of the Coordination and ensuring the activities of organizations in the field of science Fano Mikhail Romanovsky sent a letter “On the answer to the fundamental challenges of science”, which contains proposals on how to transform the fundamental science in Russia, with the signature of the organization.

Dmitry Rozhkov On April 23, 2017, in the Moscow Conference Center of “Yandex” “Extropolis” on Lev Tolstoy Street, the annual Vicki Prime was presented, and this is a good reason to tell readers of the “Trinity option” about an unusual and very interesting reward. After all, the past ceremony is already the seventh, and it seems that only avid Wikipedists and their few allies in the matter of free knowledge of knowledge have heard about Vicki-Premium.

13 On May at 12:00 and 14 May at 13:00 (Saturday and Sunday) at the club “That very place” (Nizhny Novgorod, Gorky St., 226, entrance from the yard) there will be a two-day course of lectures by astrochemist, Dr. physics and mathematics sciences, head Department of Physics and Evolution of Stars of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dmitry Vibe . Topic: “How are born stars . Interstellar medium and star formation" . The cost of participation is 500 rubles.

Boris Larionov According to Rosstat, less than 10% of the population in Russia dies from infectious diseases, and according to the Security Council of the Russian Federation, 85% of Russians die from NCDs - non-infectious diseases, and the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of Sciences are not involved in their prevention, although back in 2014 the FAO and WHO recommended reducing the consumption of animal fats, margarines, added sugar and SALT to combat NCDs.

April 25–26, 2017 in Moscow, in the Skolkovo Innovation Center, the international conference “Shaping the Future: Big Data, Biomedicine and Frontier Technologies”, organized jointly MIT and Scoltkh ( http://shapingthefuture2017.skoltech.ru ). We publish several responses from the participants of this scientific forum.

Poems of tanker, guard of Lieutenant Jonah Degen (1925–2017), after the war, who became a doctor of medical sciences, researcher in the field of orthopedics and traumatology: At the front you can’t go crazy, Without learning to forget right away. We raked out of the lined tanks Everything that you can bury in the grave. The brigade commander rested his chin on the tunic. I hid tears. Enough. Stop. And in the evening the driver taught me How Paspan is dancing correctly.

Grandma always made me wash my hands after I touched money. She was right: the first concerns that paper money might carry pathogens date back over a hundred years [Schaarschmidt 1884], and the first systematic study was just under fifty [Abrams 1972], when I was nine years old.

Evgeny Ananyev Many important scientific discoveries gave the world the twentieth century, including in the field of biology and genetics. And one of these discoveries is the detection of mobile genetic elements. It is difficult to imagine that the existence of mobile elements in the genome only a few decades ago seemed real fantastic. Genetics, which declared strange "jumping" genes, seriously risked their reputation.

Dear editors ! May is a wonderful month, when spring is completely in its own rights. Yes, it happens, snow falls, yes, there are still not uncommon. But the trees are covered with foliage, the grass turns green, the sun shines - beauty, in a word. The month of May begins with a wonderful holiday of spring and labor - the day when people can either go with joyful faces marching for a festive demonstration in the columns of workers, or go to drink all kinds of holiday drinks to the country.

The Evolution Foundation announced a competition of applications for summer scientific schools for high school students. Free applications until May 15, 2017 send to the address info@evolutionFund.ru . The results of the competition will be announced on May 30.

My grandmother always made me wash my hands after I touched the money. She was right: the first fears that paper money could serve as carriers of pathogens more than a hundred years ago [Schaarschmidt 1884], and the first systematic study was a little less than fifty [Abrams 1972], when I was nine years old.