Olga Zelenina, Tatyana Tuchina, Sergey Shilov, Alexander Bykov near the Bryansk Regional Court ↓ "poppy" and forensic examination: scientists in the service of security forces? On February 21, 2019, an acquittal of the “poppying case”, issued by the jury in the Bryansk Regional Court, entered into force. Olga Nikolaevna Zelenina told our newspaper about the immediate plans. Talked by Natalia Demina . - What was the result of 2018 for you?

Arkady Kuramshin The first material that began to be used by humanity was, of course, a tree. The tools and hunting equipment-sticks, spears, bows and arrows-were made of wood, and far from always our ancestors managed to modernize these “devices” with stone tips. It would be more fair to call the Stone Age “wooden age”, but time did not spare the wooden products of our ancestors, leaving only stones in memory of us.

Only 15 seconds were needed by Judge Albine Galimova to announce his decision on March 19, 2019: to leave the 75-year-old physicist Viktor Kudryavtsev in a pre-trial detention center for another two months, until May 20. Graduate of graduate school of the Institute of Mechanics of Moscow State University, cand. tech.

Former, real and future members of the TRV-HO-HOUSE team on the anniversary (April 2018). Photo by I. Nightingale The start turned out to be very successful: in the first three days 600 thousand rubles were collected. The goal has been changed from 600 thousand to a million, which we dreamed about, but not very hoped. At the moment (March 25), 750 thousand were collected. We answer the question sometimes asked: why do we turn to readers for help instead of earnings ourselves?

On the 35th anniversary of the first publication of Roman Harry Harrison "Eden" The whole world Lay before them, where to choose housing They had to. The craft of the Creator The driven, walking hard, Like wanderers, they are a hand in their hand, Eden crossing, wandered His deserted road. John Milton. Lost paradise In 2019, it marks the 35th anniversary of the first publication of Harry Harrison’s novel “The West Edem” - the first part of the famous trilogy.

Photo of the press service of "Yandex" Svetlana Mikhailova Mathematics is the very school subject to which students have practically no even: either love and understanding, or hatred and a complete stupor. How to help schoolchildren and teachers make this science more affordable and understandable? Will gadgets help this? Or will it be more benefit if you connect the study of the student’s psychology?

Pixabay.com The preface of Boris Stern We have long planned to conduct a discussion related to the eternal question about the place of man in the universe. This, of course, is about extraterrestrial life and planets in other stars. At the moment, a little less than 6 thousand exoplanets are known, of which more than two thousand are waiting for independent confirmation. But for statistical studies, you can use all 6 thousand. Among them are very few planets, supposedly suitable for life.

By the decision of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Literature, the 2019 Laureate of the Abel Prize of 2019 was the 76-year-old member of the American Academy of Sciences, Professor of Texas University (Austin, USA) Karen Uhlenbeck .

Vladimir Sidorin The project of creating the so -called basic schools of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a new initiative, which the last weeks talk about since February 26. The author of the proposed article is Vladimir Sidorin , scientific. sore. Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. Philos. sciences, managed to work at the school at one time (2009–2017).

Artyom Akshintsev. Photo from Facebook Facebook.com/artem.akshintsev This year, Nature magazine called the field popularization of science the main new trend in scientific communication 1 . Five years ago, knowing nothing about the scale that this phenomenon will accept in Russia and in the world, I gathered my first group on a campaign in Kamchatka through the Internet.

Claire Voisin is a kind of role model for many mathematicians of my generation. I first heard about it from my supervisor (I studied in Leiden, Holland, with geometer and topologist Ton Van de Ven). Almost in the very first week he told me that I should go to Paris to see Claire Voisin, which greatly intrigued me.

When European colonialists began to master Western Africa, they noticed that local women wear massive copper and bronze bracelets as an indicator of the wealth of their husbands. It took only a minimum psychological shift so that these bracelets began to be used as the money that was called - “Manilla” (rather from the Portuguese Manilha than from the Spanish Manella - “ Bracelet” - which, in turn, goes back to the Latin Manus - “Hand”).

Anna Novikova ( hse.ru ) For the first time, the directors of the country of victorious socialism drew attention to women in science. After all, it was in Stalinist Russia that women were massively able to get into institutes and universities. However, why do the heroines of Valentina Serova and Lyubov Orlova in the cinema look so harsh, they are not up to love, they have a heavy character and certain strict glasses on their nose? How was such an image born?

... the time of the moon is the time of the moon; We have a chance, we have a chance, In which there are no rules. Boris Grebenshchikov.

Andrey Zasakin. Photo by A. Zharinov The experts of the Higher Attestation Commission and the Ministry of Education and Science were saved from the FSB dungeons, but brought the chairman of the VAK Filippov under the article. So far, newspaper.