WORLD in the eye of SCIENCE
IN THIS ISSUE:
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
The yolk granules in the cytoplasm of frog oocyte contacting with vesicles of the endoplasmic reticulum, a closed membranous system spanning the cytoplasm and providing for protein synthesis and transport in the cell.
Photo by the courtesy of E. Kiseleva (Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia)
#2 (26), 2010
