Researchers from all over the world are still unable to tell whether our planet shrinks, expands or somehow pulses. What prevents them from making the final decision is the lack of objective data about Earth’s radius changes. However, Russian geologist from Russian Kant State University managed to use most recent data and concluded that Earth should be shrinking.

Those, who try to lose weight by means of removing sugar from their diet, should be aware that sugar substitutes not always do good to health, moreover, their effects vary with seasons, Russian scientists and medics believe.

Russian scientists performed a study and found out that, when stored under improper temperatures, chocolate can harm health of chocoholics.

Earthquakes are powerful natural disaster, which human beings often fail to predict accurately, live alone controlling them. However, scientists all over the world search for some peculiar phenomena, which are associated with earthquakes.

Changes, which took place in a unique ecosystem of Lake Baikal, have always attracted scientists. Heating of Baikal water column was of extreme interest – climate warming near the lake was two times faster than average values for any place on the globe.

Russian chemists created polymer materials with a unique property – their rigidity or elasticity modulus gradually changes in given direction in such a way, that one side of material is a solid plastic and the other – soft rubber.

Microorganisms, bacteria in particular, which show resistance to all antibiotics, even the newest ones, can be defeated with a natural substance, existing for millions of years on our planet.

Experts consider rabies to be almost irremediable, killing up to 50 000 people every year. Unfortunately, Russia is not an exception. Russian scientists from Research Centre of Molecular Diagnostics and Treatment started development of first domestic rabies treatment.

Russian scientists and power engineers suggest storing energy in the form of heat by means of a natural material, called talcum peach or talcum chlorite.

Scientists from the Institute pf Gene Biology (Russian Academy of Sciences) currently work on nanotransporters, which will deliver anti-cancer treatment to tumors.

Alzheimer's disease, the plague of human civilization, appears to have strong connection with sense of smell. Russian scientists found out that parosmia or olfaction disorder can be the first sign of this terminal disease.

Russian biophysicists developed revolutionary techniques for diagnostics, prevention and treatment of age-related eye pathologies.

Russian scientists suggested a principally new cluster model of a lightning ball – a plasma crystal, formed by water kvatarons. This hypothesis gives explanations to the majority of observed properties of ball lightnings, especially their great destructive power.

Traditional sun protecting creams and lotions are based upon mineral filters, mainly titanium or zinc oxides. Recently sunscreen producers started adding silicon to their protective emulsions. Is this element effective enough against furious sun?

Breathing exercises according tummo (yoga of Tibet) treat atherosclerosis and can be used as non-medication doping for athletes under conditions of low temperatures and altitude hypoxia.

Russian researchers, who deal with diagnostics of heat and power objects, developed a technique for remote noncontact monitoring of municipal underground heat pipelines. The innovative technique detects corrosion in metal pipes, which is the main reason for their high breakdown rate, and helps finding defect locations without starting excavation works.

International research team, supervised by Artem Oganov and Yanming Ma, discovered that sodium (chemical element Na) gets transparent under very high pressure. This fundamental discovery is a great contribution to understanding of metal properties under high pressures, for instance, in stars and giant planets.

Russian engineers from the town of Dolgoprudny (Moscow Region) currently work on a new measuring device with subatomic resolution – protonic nano-introscope. This device is expected to expand existing methods of electron and probe microscopy, as well as unveil new horizons for studying structures with atomic and subatomic dimensions.

Scientists from the Russian city of Novosibirsk currently work on developing new effective and cheap anticonvulsants, which are also less toxic than existing anti-epileptic drugs.

Russian scientists invented a polymer-gel system for extracting additional oil from a well and reducing water content in hydrocarbon materials. The system was called “Temposcreen”.