The editorial office came a letter from two scientists, telling about an alarming event: the street of one of the largest scientific centers in Russia-the city of Yekaterinburg lost the name of the outstanding Russian genetics N.V. Timofeev-Resovsky. The collection of signatures has begun against this decision of the head of Yekaterinburg A. G. Vysokinsky. With this letter, the editorial office addresses the city leadership with the question: Dear Alexander Gennadievich, what is happening?

How does the SARS-CoV-2 virus correct errors in the transcription of its genome? How does this ability relate to the failure of remdesivir clinical trials? And can these tests be considered a complete failure? questions Yulia Chernaya’s answers Dmitry Zharkov , corresponding member, . RAS, Director of the Center for Advanced Biomedical Research of NSU, Head. Laboratory of Genomic and Protein Engineering of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS.

Elena Rzhevskaya on the site of the destroyed Fuhrerbunker near the border between two Berlin, 1973 On the eve of May 9, the augmented and updated edition of the book of the writer and military translator Elena Rzhevskaya “Berlin, May 1945” was published. Translator Lyubov sums , the granddaughter of Elena, told a three-hobby how work on the book was going on. Talked by Natalia Demina . - What gaps and silence managed to eliminate in this publication?

Alexander Shen Alexander Shen , mathematician, Art. scientific. sore. Institute of Problems of Transfer of Information RAS (Moscow), scientific. sore. Lirmm CNRS (France, Montpellier): In April, I only participated in online seminars, and in this capacity the experience is more positive: it is quite possible to discuss something, and you can even write on an electronic board if two or three people participate.

Ksenia Gilyarova Ksenia Gilyarova , teacher of the French language, associate professor of the Department of European Languages ​​of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian State University: The last time I was at work on Monday, March 16.

Pauline Curved Scientific and popular book of comics? Yes, such a genre-in an original, not translated form-now appeared in the market of Russian popular science literature. Polina Kriv , a psychophysiologist, lecturer, told our newspaper about her comics book “Where are my glasses and other stories about our memory” (M.: Bombor, 2020), prepared together with the wonderful artist Marina Evlanova , as well as about a new project dedicated to Ig Nobel Prize.

The international group of scientists for the first time created stable luminous plants, transferring DNA from bioluminescent mushrooms into them. The article was published in Nature Biotechnology and attracted the attention of not only the scientific community, but also the world media: the Avatar plants were noticed in The Times, The Guardian, Vice, The Independent, CNN.

We continue to publish the forecasts of scientists about what will happen to their field of science in the distant future. Employees of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences - glaciologists, paleoclimatologists, economy geographers and soil scientists - looked a few decades ahead. Olga Solomin Olga Solomina , Correle Member.

Ilya Schurov. Photo by M. Mirmovich On Sunday, March 15, 2020, the Ministry of Education and Science recommended universities to switch to remote operating mode. The whole Monday appeared news about how this or that university followed recommendations. "Well, when are we?" I thought. The order for the Higher School of Enterprise came closer to the night.

Peter Savelyev Pyotr Savelyev , a graduate of the biological and soil faculty of St. Petersburg State University, a programmer, lives now in Sweden, not far from Stockholm. By the will of fate, he also has to work with utilities, with statistics related to housing and communal services, with regulatory legal acts in this area. For a three-hobby, he said that he actually happens in Sweden during the pandemic.

Alexander Meshcheryakov The Olympiads in Japan is mystically unlucky-Tokyo was moved due to Pandemia of Coronavirus to July 2021. In the twentieth century, Tokyo submitted applications for the summer Olympiads twice. The first of them (1940) did not take place, the second (1964) was successfully carried out.

Sergey Golunov Sergey Golunov , political scientist, invited professor MGIMO: For me, the transition to online learning turned out to be relatively easy. The Zoom program that I use is generally intuitive, and it is easy to show presentations in it. The university paid for the subscription to the premium version of the program, so the problem of restrictions on the free version is not worth it.

The entire issue of the newspaper Trinity Option - Science No. 303 dated May 5, 2020 in PDF Number Materials in HTML The announcement of the room Simpatient the "formula" of light Ilya Yampolsky and Alexander Borisov about the creation of luminous plants - p. 1–2 The lists is not listed The name of Timofeev-Resovsky disappeared from the map of Yekaterinburg-p.

On the arrow of Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg, the battle for academic real estate is flared up. The building of the NIS RAS One of the main concerns associated with the RAS reform announced in 2013 was the fear of losing the unity of academic science: many were afraid that such influential players as large universities or the Kurchatov Institute NIC would begin to take academic institutions under their control and, ultimately, academic science as such will cease to exist.

Ksenia Gilyarova: “The last time I was at work was on Monday, March 16th. When I came to the department after classes, they announced to us: “From now on, you teach classes remotely, dear teachers.” I well remember the confusion on the faces of my colleagues at that moment: most of us have never taught online, and not everyone is computer friendly - we are humanists, and many of us are not so young.