1….., Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva and Deputy Minister Grigory Trubnikov introduced new members. As part of the regular rotation, 13 out of 22 people left the Council of their own free will. The council, in turn, offered new personnel to the ministry. …… Miracles!!!! The Ministry of Education and Science is forming a science council for itself.... ...And the thought immediately arises - how smart are the staff of the MINISTRY OF Educa- tion and Science!!! 2.

White dwarf from the HD49798/RX J0648.0–4418 system. Posted by Francesco Mereghetti The white dwarf from the HD 49798 double system in the southern constellation of the stern was the first to record the compression process at an early stage of gradual cooling. This was recently done by astrophysicists from the GISH of Moscow State University together with colleagues from Italy.

An interesting and useful discussion about the fate of Russian science and Russian scientists has unfolded on the pages of the TRV-hub and on the network. As it should be in science, various, including categorical, points of view are expressed. This is wonderful: it means that we can speak and convince each other.

Stepanova M. M. In memory of memory. Romance. M.: New publishing house

Its ex-chairman Aleksey Khokhlov , a specialist in the field of polymer physics, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and vice-rector of Moscow State University, spoke about significant rotation in the Science Council under the Ministry of Education and Science at a press conference on November 17. M.V. Lomonosov [1]. It should be noted that, among other things, the gender composition of the tall Areopagus has changed.

President of the Russian Academy of Sciences A. Sergeyev presents the genetics-megagantnik, head of the Center for Genomon Bioinformatics named after Dobrzhansky St. Petersburg State University Stevens O'Brien (Stephen J. Photo by N. Demina The question of how to improve the work of the scientific certification system in Russia became central at the next meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences on November 14, 2017. There was no stormy discussion.

Ksenia Lisitsyn Ksenia Lisitsyn, a member of the North-West Organization of the Cosmonautics Federation of Russia, talks about two space forums she visited. Over the past weeks of September, Adelaide has become the center of the universe for everyone who is interested in the study of space. For nine years, the Australian Space Industry Association [1] worked to bring to itself the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), and with it 4,000 representatives of the industry from 80 countries.

Alexey Levin As already described in the Trv-Hunus No. 240, on October 16, 2017, several press conferences (including in Washington, London and Moscow) announced a new demonstration of the possibilities of gravitational-wave astronomy. Since the fall of 2015, the American double detector of the weightlifting waves Advanced Ligo, along with the younger Italian partner Virgo, caught the gravitational traces of the meeting of black holes: LIGO - four times, and Virgo once.

The article by N. Reznik “Rock, Paper, Scissors” describes numerous interactions of males in the fight for females. The principle of interactions “rock, paper, scissors” is considered in biology as one of the universal ones, supporting biodiversity at a variety of levels. This range of phenomena is called intransitive competition. Here, the superiority of A over B and then B over C does not extend to the pair A - C: in it C can dominate (win, surpass A).

Ekaterina Buz The book of Mikhail Zygar about the collapse of the Russian Empire is one of the most anticipated new products of this fall. In the preface, the author warns honestly that he is a journalist, not a historian.

People of the world. Russian scientific abroad. Ed. D. Yu. Bayuka. -M.: Alpina Non-Fikshn, 2018 The ups and downs of the twentieth century forced hundreds of thousands of our compatriots to leave their homeland. But this book is not just about emigration - it is about Russian scientists and engineers who realized their talents abroad.

Alexander Poddyakov, professor of the Department of Psychology of the Higher School of Economics The article by Natalia Reznik “ Stone, Scissors, Paper ” [1] describes numerous funny ones - from a human point of view - the interaction of males in the struggle for females.

Vasily Borodin From October 24 to January 21, the first in Russia exhibition of painting Khanim Sutin 1 (1893–1943) is held in the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum - the event is exceptional against the background of all museum retrospective and modern exhibitions of recent years. Exceptional, because it leads away from the habitually complicated, fractally branched author’s and curatorial reflection and poses before the most basic, naive questions: “Why do you need painting?

Sergey Popov It would seem that on the search for extraterrestrial life in general and reasonable in particular it is difficult to say something new. Therefore, it seems that there is no great sense in reading a whole new book on this topic. However, the collection "Are we alone in the universe?" I was pleasantly surprised.

Alexander Moldovan We publish the performance of the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Moldovan at a meeting of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences on November 14, 2017, dedicated to improving the certification system of scientific personnel in the Russian Federation.