For many years, international scientific debate has not subsided about what killed the dinosaurs - a colossal catastrophe or gradual environmental changes in the biosphere. In recent years, it seems that the “catastrophists” have won this debate, and the voice of adherents of the ecological framework is being heard less and less. But is it? Is the scientific search over? Can we accept this side and finally sleep peacefully at night? Want to figure this out?

Alisa Ganieva Alisa Ganieva, writer Mikhail Gorbachev is one of the most underestimated heroes of our time. A person who gave us freedom, opening the boundaries who released political prisoners, unleashed their mouths, ears, arms and legs, so that we can speak and print what we think, go where we want and work as we can.

Atlas detector (LHC, CERN). Photo: Simon Waldherr ("Wikipedia") Anatoly Sidorin If the current European strategy for the development of high energies physics was adopted forty years ago, it would not cause any questions. The main priority for the future is work on the creation of an electron-positioning collider with a perimeter of 100 km.

Don't spit in the well Samizdat There are wonderful journalists in Russia. They know everything and about everything. Recently, one person informed the city and the world that the great 20th-century mathematician I. M. Gelfand was an emigrant and dissident. That's why it's interesting to readers. That's all the public needs to know about him.

At the beginning of the year, it turned 70 years old with a remarkable biologist and man, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Elizabeth Bonch-Osmolovskaya . We publish anniversary words about her, written by friends and colleagues. Lanters with lions Denis Dragunsky Denis Dragunsky.

Yuri Ugolnikov I will say right away: if you do not know what “dorsal”, “ventral”, “lateral”, “distal” and “proximal”, if you don’t say anything to the words “postcranial”, “gastralia” or, forgive Lord, “prepubis”, in general, if you are not too burdened with scientific and biological Latin, escape, close this book and do not get close to it and do not get close to it. never.

The American company SpaceX, which “returned the United States to space” [ 1 ], is working on the creation of the super-heavy space transport system Starship [ 2 ]. The new launch vehicle consists of two parts: the first reusable Super Heavy stage and the second reusable stage and at the same time the Starship spacecraft (this is also the name of the entire rocket assembly), which will be able to deliver 150 tons into orbit and return 50 tons of cargo to Earth.

Images from Pixabay.com and Freeimg.ru sites Attention! On March 14, at 19 o’clock in Arkha, an online discussion will be held on the same topic with the participation of Andrei Zhuravlev and Pavel Bruchs. You can register for participation here here If you ask about this with a non -specialist who is interested in the question, he is most likely to answer that dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid, which fell 66 million years ago.

Interview with physicist and translator Jile Pontecorvo About how the family of the future academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Bruno Pontecorvo appeared in the Soviet Union, about the features of life in the country of the victorious socialism and his own scientific career of the eldest son of the great physicist are talking about Jan Makhonin . Full version. In a paper newspaper and in the .pdf , abbreviated. Gil Pontecorvo on the Board of Honor Lags.

Enlightener Prize On February 25, the best popular science books of 2020 became known at the Moscow Theater “School of Modern Play”. The jury announced the winners of the XIII season of the Enlightener Award and the I season of the Enlightener. Training Award. The laureate of the Enlightener.

March 14 (Sunday) at 19:00 The Archae Cultural and Educational Center, together with the newspaper Trinity-Science -is invited to the online disposition “ Death of dinosaurs: Ecological changes or disaster? " Man is an exalted creature and cannot limit himself to everyday problems and pressing political issues.

Black humor from harsh limnologists of the Arctic With extended access If I was asked to describe my current scientific activity in one word, then it would be the word "death". Of course, I perfectly understand that this topic is very taboo, which is the fault of various superstitions, fears and the like. However, despite this, I still want to talk about it in the context of my professional scientific activity.

Alexander Khokhlov Until April 11, 2021, applications for the competition “Scientific orientation: Open Cosmos” are accepted on the website of the Russian movement of schoolchildren [ 1 ]. Schoolchildren from 12 to 16 years old can offer their research or practical idea for use on a small orbital nanosonomic Earth or Moon of 3U-Cubsata format (10 × 10 × 30 cm).

The entire issue of the newspaper Trinity Option - Science No. 324 of March 9, 2021 in PDF Number Materials in HTML The announcement of the room What did the dinosaurs become extinct from? In the discussion organized by Boris Stern , Alexei Ivanov , Andrey Zhuravlev , Pavel Skille and Kirill Yeskov participate - p.

Dear editors! Firstly, I want to congratulate all the cute ladies on the wonderful spring holiday on March 8! Beautiful women inspire us to work and exploits, which I especially acutely felt, starting to work in the mode of remote employment, and therefore it is impossible to live without them, that is, without you, dear woman-women! Unfortunately, various events distract us from those beautiful and elevated.