#7 (12) December 2006

SPECIAL FEATURE: the enigma of "rusty" DNA

On the proteins “trackwalking” DNA

Antibodies with enzyme properties

On the most ancient process of protein synthesis

The Khunnu sepulchre was found at a depth almost equal to the height of a 6-storeyed building

Man can take control over earthquakes using explosions, vibration and water

On the diversity and patterns of vortical flow motion in the environment

The Great Northern Expedition: “We, Russians, drink to make merry and cannot live without it!”

#6 (11) December 2006

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE FIRST AFTER WORLD WAR I

The All-Russian Archaeological Congress (Novgorod, 1911 — Novosibirsk, 2006)

Leonardo's optics

What's in common between the artificial crystalline and space telescope?

In one "meal" lasting more than a week a taiga tick female can increase its weight more than 100 times!

Less than three per cent of scorpions are potential "man-killers"

#5(10) August 2006

SPECIAL FEATURE: DIATOMS: CREATORS OF GLASS CASTLES

About a flourishing group of unicellular algae that make perfect use of silicon

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

How the flu virus defends itself against the immune system attacks of the host organism

All you wouldn't like to know about Russia's readiness to a new pandemic

Secrets of the traditional medicine of Nenets forest dwellers

Excursion to the museum of an old Khanty settlement at lower reaches of the Ob

#4(9), july 2006

SPECIAL FEATURE: GET WELL, BIRDS!

"Bird flu" is a new chapter in the old history of complicated relations between humans and Nature

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

FEL radiation does not destroy the structure of biomolecules

Whereto, how, and why the migratory birds fly

Non-manmade memorials of the Altai earthquake

Paper Museum — Time Machine to 18th-century Kunstkamera

#3(8), May 2006

SPECIAL FEATURE: The Tagar Priest's Cache

IN THIS ISSUE:

Round Table: Humankind falls into those who are too lazy to look into physics and those who find it difficult to explain what it is about...

Delivery of offspring relieves laboratory mice from obesity and diabetes

Colliders ґ relativistic machines for producing elementary-particle fragments

Using the ordinary Euclidean geometry we may not even suspect that the world is closed

On "living fossils", creatures who challenged time

#2(7), March 2006

SPECIAL FEATURE: Science as a Way of Life

about impractical "heroes of our time"

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

Why future managers should major in physics

Academician N. L. Dobretsov: origin and evolution of kife

Synchrotron radiation indicated the murderer of ancient Pazyrykians

Complicated story of the Ilimsk Crucifix, an orthodox relic

#1(6), January 2006

SPECIAL FEATURE: Following The Traces of The Great Northern Expedition

Dedicated to the 300th anniversary of G. F. Mueller's legendary route

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

Shall we become a "hydrogen" civilization by the end of this century?

A sandwich with sea urchin's eggs for a long and healthy life

What do Baikalian sponges and silicone have in common?

On the true purpose of the Beagle expedition with Darwin aboard