We have made a computer model of the human heart, which is primarily required for tests and experiments. Such experiments are impermissible on a living person, and on the computer we can test and try anything and check how it all works.

The Rocket and Space Corporation Energy took out the invention patent on the transformable manned module for the Russian segment of the ISS and perspective orbital stations.

This unique technology makes it possible to detect the disease parameters, which cannot be discerned by other methods.

Experts from Russia and other countries have combined efforts to prevent the threat of about five hundred abnormal fields of methane emission from the Arctic ice. According to the worst scenario the mankind will face a global catastrophe, which will require the world budget of all the states to eliminate it.

Domestic robot rescuers will soon help guard the safety of people in Russia. Anthropomorphic robot rescuers were presented at the 8th International Salon of Security Facilities.

A Yakut scientist found a way to preserve the limbs suffering from severe frostbites, which may subsequently help to revive people who are frostbitten and still alive.

Fast-growing poplar breeding project was developed by research workers of Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. Today biofuel boilers are becoming more popular. It happens due to the fact that fossil fuels like coal and oil are exhaustible, expensive and not eco-friendly enough.

One test makes it possible to determine the sex of the child starting seventh week of pregnancy, the second development allows to find out the fetus Rh factor starting tenth week. The new method is intended to be used internationally.

This year’s TechCrunch Moscow proved as exciting as ever, featuring the Battle of Startups and some tech celebs like LiveJournal founder Brad Fitzpatrick.

1. The first-ever electric bulb was invented by P. N. Yablochkov and A.N.Lodygin; 2. the radio was invented by A.S.Popov; 3. the first-ever electronic microscope, TV and telecasting were created by V.K.Zvorykin; 4. the first-ever plane was invented by A.F.Mozhaysky;

Promoting startups in education here in Russia is the same as betting on David in his lone fight against Goliath. It doesn’t sounds quite feasible but that’s what we must do against the odds because, ultimately, that’s where the future is.

At the 9-th International Exhibition Interauto, National University of Science and Technology presented a number of developments in the area of nanotechnology for modern and future-oriented automotive industry.

Archaeological excavations on Lake Andreev ended up with unique discovery. While performing practical training students and lecturers of Tyumen State Academy of Culture, Arts and Social Technologies have found an ancient settlement near Lake Andreev in the Tyumen Region.

Summertime is the period when many of us prefer to go to the woods for a traditional Russian-style barbeque called shashlyki. Unfortunately, this may also be the time when we are most susceptible to the encephalitis and Lyme disease caused by tick bites. Russian scientists have recently developed an express-test to help quickly discover, whether or not a tick was a virus carrier.

A recent expedition by Dmitry Kravchenko, a long-term explorer of the last journey of Willem Barentsz, has ended with an unexpected discovery of four fragments of the carvel bottom frames. Next year the group of scientists hope to find all remains of the sunken carvel.

Russian scientists and psychologists have created a system Spartan 300 to detect deviant behaviour in the crowd. The system uses the findings of Prof. Paul Ekman research into psychology of facial expressions, body movements, and speech patterns.

Petersburg scientists designed a new kind of rear-view mirror: it now combines spherical and aspherical mirror elements. The new design now allows a driver to better see the road and cars behind and around his vehicle. The first roadtests were successful.

Latest issue of 'Journal of Environmental Radioactivity' contains a paper by Russian researchers that covers distribution of radioactive isotopes from Fukushima nuclear power plant in space and time.

According to Russian researchers, dragon flies play a major role in transfer of nutrients, essential for terrestrial dwellers, from water to the shore.

Cultivable pluripotent stem cells are under close attention of researchers all over the world due to their enormous potential for curing a vast range of human degenerative diseases, which demand tissue replacement therapy. These cells have two unique properties: they can transform into any known cell types in an organism, and they also are able to indefinitely proliferate in vitro with all their fantastic properties kept unchanged.