The Kulikovo field mystery – the lack of burial grounds – has generated many incredible hypotheses: starting with denial of the very fact of this historical battle.

The nature lacks absolute silence: when there are no cars that beep, ships that hoot, and planes that take off, we can hear rain drops, bird singing and our own heartbeat.

Russian think-tank was the first to discover thermal anisotropy of background radiation.

Is there any life on Mars? What is the origin of life on our planet? Scientists, who study permafrost, appear to have surprising answers to these questions.

Recent studies of the Tunguska cosmic body gave new evidence of the mysterious body having been a comet.

One of the leading Russian biologists reveals some of his thoughts about current state of Russian biotechnology.

Phenomenon of bacterial resistance keeps scientists and producers from “retiring on their laurels”, because it requires development and introduction of more and more new effective treating agents.

Russian scientists have patented a system, which helps to avoid collisions of planes and helicopters with mountain slopes.

Inventor from Moscow has developed a brand new technology: he suggests removing a queen bee from the hive, which allows cropping as mush as 20 kilos of the purest honey every month.

Design of a laser-based drive for a space yacht united physicists from Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Tokyo.

Russian physicists devised an important experiment, which was carried out on the International Space station. For the first time a set of scientific procedures resulted in so-called dusty plasma.

Russian astrophysicists Mikhail Revnivtsev and Sergei Sazonov suggested new hypothesis, explaining origin of almost all kinds of x-ray radiation in our Galaxy.

Russian Academy's of Sciences Immunology Institute and "Petrovaks-pharm" company developed unique drug "Longidaza", which cures urologic and gynecological pathologies, accompanied with connective tissue hyperplasia, and serious skin complications after traumas, skin burns and surgery.

Russian scientists have developed special device, which calculates blood glucose level according patient's blood pressure. This portable device has evident merits - it measures glycemia level noninvasively, i.e. without blood.

Group of Russian scientists of the Siberian Company Sayany has developed a bioreactor of new generation. It’s called gas-vortex bioreactor.

Painting has long ago become common in life of apes in captivity. It makes their life brighter. Scientists developed an original method of teaching drawing to orangutans.

The report about an outstanding scientific achievement of Russian scientists is published in PloS Biology magazine: they have deciphered full sequence of mitochondrial DNA of the mammoth, who lived 30 000 years ago.

Biological pest control tends to replace traditional chemicals. New products are based on viruses, fungi and bacteria. Various strains of Bacillus thuringiensis are most widely used anti-pest bacterial products.

Recent biochemist considered chromatograph and electrophoresis unit to be his main facilities. But now computer replaces them. Bioinformatics professionals have developed special software for modeling biochemical processes and complex molecules’ behaviour.

When alien organs or tissues are transplanted to a human organism (recipient), it usually rejects them as an immune response to transplantation - it is called rejection reaction. To prevent an organism from rejecting alien tissues, doctors prescribe patients large doses of chemical drugs. Are there any other ways to suppress the rejection?