#2(26), 2010

“WE DRANK SOMA, WE BECAME IMMORTAL...”

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Since inception, the Russian Academy of Sciences has not only performed its direct duty – revealing the basic laws of nature – but also has been involved in solving topical problems of contemporary society

The scientists who made the artillery fired atomic projectile were among the founders of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences

The embroidered carpet from the Xiongnu grave supports the hypothesis that soma, a legendary ritual drink of ancient times, was made from mushrooms

On the first edition in the Russian language of the 18th-century fundamental work on ethnography The Description of Siberian peoples by G.F. Müller

#1(25), 2010

WORLD in the eye of SCIENCE

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The main stages of influenza virus reproduction take place in the most protected compartment of infected cell – its nucleus

Man’s desire to know how matter is constructed calls for an ever greater energy of colliding particles and ever greater intellectual and financial resources

Why the unicorn – a most important and positive symbol in Chinese culture – is depicted on ornaments for horse harness from the tombs of Khunnu nomads?

An unsolved mystery is why an artifact belonging to the Ancient East culture should have been kept for over a thousand years as a sacred attribute at a Khanty sanctuary

#3(24), 2009

INFLUENZA VIRUS: Intimate Life Details

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The main stages of influenza virus reproduction take place in the most protected compartment of infected cell – its nucleus

Man’s desire to know how matter is constructed calls for an ever greater energy of colliding particles and ever greater intellectual and financial resources

Why the unicorn – a most important and positive symbol in Chinese culture – is depicted on ornaments for horse harness from the tombs of Khunnu nomads?

An unsolved mystery is why an artifact belonging to the Ancient East culture should have been kept for over a thousand years as a sacred attribute at a Khanty sanctuary

#2(23), 2009

NUCLEAR FURNACE OF THE EARTH

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Many properties of modern materials are determined by the sample "macrostructure" rather than by its internal composition

Ultra-cold atoms of alkali-earth elements will help to develop a primary standard of one of the main physical quantity - time

The new mosquito-borne West Nile virus strain causes severe encephalitis in one-fifths of the infected people

Today, the lost world of the caldera of this dormant volcano in Kamchatka is only accessible to scientists and thrill-seeking travelers

#1(22), 2009

Way to the East

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Academician M. A. Grachev: "Brain drain to the west is a real problem. To overcome it we have to create conditions for brain drain from the west to the east"

The "energy cocktail" of the modern Universe is mixed according to a strange recipe: there is too much "dark" in it

Similarly to a cannon net the pores of a metal-organic polymer only hold the molecules of a specific size and shape

Ruins of mausoleums, a broken millstone and pottery crocks are evidence that in the medieval times the Aral Sea bottom was populated

Calling names was a taboo in the traditional Khanty culture-the children used to show the offender a horror doll instead

Scientists-"microbe hunters" have made it to the legendary Death Valley in Kamchatka