Russian scientists claim that artificial reefs are extremely popular with marine inhabitants. Researchers from the Institute of Marine Biology (Far East branch of Russian academy of sciences) say that if Russian coastal shallow waters were filled with such reefs, catches of various commercial species of fish, invertebrates and algae will grow significantly.

It has been 30 days already, since participants of the Mars-500 project were locked in special flight-imitating facilities. There are only 490 days of Martian mission simulation left.

Today various nano-substances, created for medical purposes, attract attention of many medics, biologists and physicists. Studies of magnetically controlled precise drug delivery by means of magnetic nanoparticles are of specific interest to scientific and medical community.

When a standing person moves, any kind of motion changes body configuration, and centre of body’s mass shifts. In order to prevent a moving person from falling, a huge coordinated work of muscles, responsible for motion, and postural muscles, helping keep upright body position, is carried out. Russian scientists from the Institute of Information Processing (Russian Academy of Sciences) decided to find out how mentioned coordination was conducted

Darwin Museum of Moscow welcomes visitors – new exhibition “Disappearing World” tells them about extinct and endangered animals.

Russian mathematicians and physicists calculated consequences of possible collisions of natural cosmic bodied with our planet’s atmosphere and surface, and worked out a collision classification

Russian researchers from the Institute of Metals Superplacticity Problems (Russian academy of sciences) developed a new technology for creating 3D and flat sheet materials with homogeneous nanostructure.

Russian scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics, located in the city of Novosibirsk, build a new facility, which will enhance LHC’s performance 100 times.

Every night, when people fall asleep and dream, their brains switch off the ability to control their bodies, paralyzing every muscle, Russian somnologists say.

Solar wind removed a significant amount of water from Venus’s atmosphere – this is what data from automatic interplanetary station “Venus-Express” revealed to astronomers. The probe also shed light on characteristic patterns of winds in the atmosphere of the brightest planet on our night sky.

Does positive attitude, or absorption in work, as psychologists say, help avoiding professional exhaustion? Two points of view exist – some researchers say that positive attitude never accompanies professional exhaustion, some think it does, unfortunately.

Scientists from Omsk State University perform interesting experiments - they grow dental calculus in vitro. The aim of the experiment is learning how saliva affects structure and chemical composition of dental calculus, and this knowledge can help linking properties of saliva and dental calculus with human health.

All-Russia Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM) published data on what inventions, made in the 20^th century, Russian people considered to be most important, and what discoveries our fellow nationals were waiting for in the 21^st century.

Over 125 million hectares in the world are currently under transgenic or genetically modified plants, and about one-fifth (21-23%) of these plants are resistant to pests. Recent research showed that plants, producing bacterial toxins, which kill pests, might have negative effect on our environment.

Russian biophysicists and economists found out, which components form smell of porcini (Boletus edulis) and oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus). Scientists advise how to cook these mushrooms to preserve their delicious aroma.

Researchers from the Russian city of Tumen suggest a new hypothesis of the Bermuda Triangle mystery. Scientists link the famous effect with accumulation of gas hydrates in Atlantic waters.

How multicellular organisms came into the world, happily inhabited by unicellular organisms? Perhaps the explanation is self-organization of individual cells into multicellular agglomerations, Russian biologist believes.

Students of Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) recently presented some of their scientific projects, and, honestly speaking, their innovations heat the imagination of not only ordinary people.

According to RosCosmos, Russia has four main priorities in space. Here are a few words about each of them.

Safety of cell therapy is very important for medicine, and researchers from Russia faced a great challenge – they decided to find out whether stem cells, a common tool of genetic engineering and basics of cell therapy, were genetically stable.