Alexander Fradkov The other day, on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science, the results of the competition of large projects of 2020 were published [ 1 ]. This was the first mass competition, significant on the country's scale, where the examination was conducted by the Russian RAS.

On August 1, 2020, the July 1st Club released the following statement. The crossroads at which our world finds itself today is giving rise to a sharp increase in instability and activity of various political forces, often exceeding the limits of reasonable sufficiency. This poses a particular danger to the scientific world, the existence of which requires an atmosphere of freedom, wide contacts and discussions between representatives of different points of view.

Alexey Tkachenko and Sergey Maslov (right). Photo from the archive of heroes interviews The fact that new physicists can bring to mathematical models of coronavirus pandemia, why it is worth talking not only about collective immunity, but also about the heterogeneous exposure of people to the virus, we talked with physicists Sergei Maslov and Alexei Tkachenko .

This summer marks 80 years of one unusual rescue operation carried out in Kaunas by the Japanese and Dutchman, the result of which was the salvation of thousands of Jews from the inevitable death due to the repression of the Nazis. Tiune Sugihar. "Wikipedia" One of the heroes of our story is the Japanese diplomat of Tyune Sugihura (Sugihara Chiune, 1900–1986), whose fate was quite closely connected with Russia. Tiune was born at the turn of the century - January 1, 1900.

From left to right: Atlas-5, Changzhen-5, H-IIA. NASA / Xinhua / Hope Mars Mission Alexander Khokhlov Missile summer. From the mouth to the mouth with the wind from the house to the open house - two words: missile summer. Hot, like the breath of the desert, the air overdid frosty patterns on the windows, licked fragile lace. Skis and sleds suddenly did not need. The snow that fell on the town from the cold sky turned into hot rain, not reaching the ground. Missile summer.

Boris Stern Our editor -in -chief Boris Stern told what he worked on during the year in his free time from science. - How did the idea of ​​a new book appear? How long has the work went on it? - Starting idea: if civilization perishes and revives through millennia - what can distant descendants know about it, how will they investigate this death?

Dear editors! The well -known question "does the size matter?" There is a completely obvious answer: of course, has! Especially when it comes to financing projects. And it is obvious not only for us, recipients of money, but also for those who give money, for officials. Is it possible to do serious work for a penny? In the best case, you can only pretend that you did something useful.

Alexander Meshcheryakov By the way, at the end of May 1915, in the midst of the First World War, a terrible pogrom happened in Moscow. The “glorious” tradition of Jewish pogroms was finally interrupted-German stores robbed: after all, they fought with the Germans, and not with the Jews. But they smashed still fiercely, plundered everything that would fall under the gangster hand.

Love Borusyak The information that appeared about the abolition of the previously planned introduction of the obligatory exam in a foreign language immediately caused a violent public discussion. This was supposed to happen in two years-in 2022; Now this will not happen. I think that there are more supporters of such a decision than opponents, and hundreds of high school students and their parents breathed a sigh of relief.

Mikhail Sodin Fedor Nazarov Once, a complex device stubbornly refused to work at some plant, and not a single specialist could do anything. The young man came, carefully examined the cunning device from all sides, walked around, thought, scratched his head, took a regular hammer, hit the device, and the device earned. The man was generously awarded this. But many were surprised that a high reward can be earned for a hammer.

Pavel Tychina You mean the PDF is not downloaded via a script? Corrected there, but direct link https://trv-science.ru/uploads/310N.pdf just in case. Maybe it’s not worth fussing over, there have already been complaints, maybe someone has some configured security systems in their browsers that block the activities of such scripts...

The competition for the 2020 award is held in the following categories: “The best popular science book for schoolchildren and students”; “The best series of popular science lectures for schoolchildren and students”; “The best series of short popular science videos.” Popular science books aimed at scientific education of schoolchildren and elementary students and published in printed or electronic form in 2018–2020 can be submitted for the competition in the category “Best Popular Science Book

Alexey Ivanov , Dokt. Geol.-Min. sciences, deputy. Director for the Science of the Institute of Earth's Cossack SB RAS, made a short review of the news of the CO2 variation science over the past 300 million years and the possible environmental consequences of the modern growth of concentrations of this gas.

In my memory, there are as many as four heads of Moscow education, not counting the newly appointed A. B. Molotkov, about whom there is nothing to talk or write yet. G. A. Aseev (1962–1986), L. P. Kezina (1986–2007), O. N. Larionova (2007–2011), I. I. Kalina (2011–2020) were successively leaders in this area. But perhaps none of his predecessors received such a public reaction to his resignation as Isaac Kalina, who closes this list.

Lyudmil Katsarkov Alexander Efimov awarded the European Mathematical Society (EMS-Prize). This prestigious international award is awarded once every four years of ten outstanding young European mathematicians (up to 35 years) and is awarded during the European Mathematical Congress two years before the international congress of mathematicians (ICM). It is ICM that awards Fields medals - an analogue of the Nobel Prize in mathematics.