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February
- 02.02.2006 | Old Spacesuit Is Starting New Life as Satellite On 4 February 2006 the ISS crew of Valery Tokarev and Bill McArthur are going to launch an unusual mini-satellite called RadioSkaf. They will throw it away during their coming out into open space. more »
- 01.02.2006 | Plasma Coatings Against Mollusks Researchers from the Institute of Physics, Dagestan Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, have proposed efficient techique for preventing fouling. more »
January
- 24.01.2006 | Art Helps to Communicate with Apes Drawing together helps orangutans and men to become closer. more »
- 20.01.2006 | Genetic Passport Will Foretell the Future Probably, a choice of professional field, career and medicinal treatment will be made by genetic analysis. more »
- 17.01.2006 | Bird Flu Is a Retribution for Earth Population Growth Highly pathogenic flu viruses may act as factors controlling population density. more »
- 12.01.2006 | Invasion of Strange Ticks Mutant ticks found in the Russian territory can transmit a few dangerous diseases, which symptoms may be revealed many years later. more »
December
- 27.12.2005 | Genetic Rush for Mammoth Genome A few international research teams have declared that they partially encoded mammoth genome. All the studied samples originate from Siberia, but the results are different. more »
- 13.12.2005 | In Search for Targets for Future Medicines Russian academic researchers sign several million dollar agreements with Novartis. more »
- 07.12.2005 | Global Warming: Scientists Are Not Sure About Prognosis Global warming or global cold spell? Climate experts cannot answer this question now. More observations are needed, for at least 70 years ahead. more »
November
- 30.11.2005 | Parkinson’s Disease Should Be Treated Before Its Beginning Russian researchers have found that the first signs of Parkinson’s disease are revealed only after irreversible destruction of the neurons, controlling movements. The dopaminergic neuron system impedes the disease development to the uttermost, using intermediate products. This explains why any treatment aimed to supporting neuron activity is inefficient in the stage of recognizable clinical symptoms. more »
- 21.11.2005 | Skin Fluorescence Betrays Your Age Russian scientists have suggested a simple technique of monitoring human ageing. more »
- 15.11.2005 | Would Weather Forecast Be More Precise? Russia is restoring a system of Earth remote observation. The first special satellite of a Meteor series will be launched next year. more »
October
- 31.10.2005 | No Italians Were Among the Battle of Kulikovo Warriors Russian historians have filled in some ‘blank spots’ in the history of 13th –15th centuries due to an intensive study of Genoa and Venice archives. more »
- 24.10.2005 | A Monument to the First Heating Radiator A monument to the first heating radiator, which was invented in Russia 150 years ago, was unveiled in Samara. more »
August
July
- 18.07.2005 | Algae Under Suspicions Researchers at the South Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences have studied a cause of the ‘strange’ behaviour of the Sea of Azov. more »
- 18.07.2005 | Scientists Will Examine Northern Boundaries of Russia In June 2005 a research expedition Arctica-2005 started. A team of geologists and geophysicists from Moscow and St. Petersburg is going to carry out studies at the boundary of the Chuckchee Sea and East Siberian Sea, in the Mendeleev Rise area. more »
- 14.07.2005 | A Novel Trap for Harmful Metals Siberian scientists have developed a new carbon material which can take in heavy metals 10 times better than a well-known charcoal. more »
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