By Academician Yevgeni VELIKHOV, President of the Russian Research Center "Kurchatov Institute"
January 2003 is the birth centennial of the great physicist Igor Kurchatov, the mastermind and the first head of the Soviet atomic project. His multidimensional …
by Olga AGEYEVA, Cand. Sc. (Hist.), Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences
Under Peter the Great, the czar who initiated what is called Petrine reforms, the Russian public split on the issue of St. Petersburg.
Some admired the new town a …
by Vladimir BUSHUYEV, Dr. Sc. (Phys. & Math.), Physics Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
In 1991 Russian scientists developed and patented a new method of producing X-ray images - roentgenograms - of weakly absorbing objects, including medi …
Ever since his birth as a species, man could not put up with the obvious fact: that sooner or later he has to die. Kicking against the pricks, so to speak. Not only in metaphysical terms, but also in a scientific sense, as we can see it in the example of r …
We know what paleontology is concerned with-it deals with extinct plants and animals. But why should one take the trouble and pick in the relics of organisms gone ages ago? What's the use? To find out, your correspondent Rudolf Balandin has interviewed a p …
by Alexandra GOLYEVA, Cand. Sc. (Biol.), Geography Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Phytolites (or silicon casts of cells) of an unclassified shape have been found in some ancient burials. What plant species were they part of? Biologists and ar …
by Boris Kuzhevsky, Cand. Sc. (Phys. & Math.), senior researcher, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
A NEUTRON CORONA AROUND THE SUN?
For several months our research team had been getting ready to obtain experimental proof …
By Igor REZANOV, Dr. Sc. (Geol. & Mineral.), S. I. Vavilov Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences
UNESCO has proclaimed 2002 a year of mountains. For centuries it has been an intriguing question to us: H …
By Natalya BREDIS, head of the Department of Optico-Physical Research, National Restoration Research Center, Ukraine (Kiev)
In times of old, one of the most coveted gems in many parts of the ancient world, especially the Arab East, was known by the name of …
Soaring up into the grey northern sky of St. Petersburg, like radiant blue torches, are the minarets of the city's Central Mosque. The austere background of the granite revetment serves to accentuate their geometry and monumental dimensions. The majolica t …
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