Despite eating or selling black caviar is illegal, this tasty fish eggs regularly appear in shops. Biologists from World Wildlife Fund remind that selling even a single black egg is against Russian laws and demand banning black caviar export.

Nanobioelectronics is a new, rapidly developing discipline, combining achievements of nanoelectronics and molecular biology. Integration of nanoelectronic devices and such complex biological structures as cells throws a bridge between biotechnology and nanobioelectronics.

Russian scientists in cooperation with their English and German colleagues have studied effect of alcoholism on life interval of adult men of Russian city of Izhevsk and came to an interesting conclusion.

Genetically modified organisms (GMO) make trouble between scientists.

Russian engineering and technology company “ScanEx” has launched a project on space monitoring of seawaters near the Sakhalin Island, where oil is produced and grey whales unfortunately dwell, being an endangered species.

Third millennium has started not very long ago and brought us a new stage of development of tiny space vehicles – micro- and nano-satellites. Small space crafts are already widely used for Earth remote sensing, ecological monitoring, earthquake predicting and studies of ionosphere.

Eminent Russian scientists tend to think that future of Russian power engineering lies in building thousands small heat and power plants with modern gas-turbine units, which allow rapid increase of power production and saving gas.

Infertility in Russia becomes a crucial factor, having a significant effect on demographic situation in the country.

On the one hand, alcohol-containing drinks damage cardio-vascular system, but on the other – a glass of red wine is ambrosia for heart. Should people drink alcohol, or not, and what to do when so many tasty drinks surround you?

Many mysteries of the Antarctic continent have been already solved, but even more of them are waiting for an answer to be found. For example, scientists still fail to calculate balance of the Antarctic ice sheet, i.e. its annual snow income and iceberg and melting losses.

Scientists from Russian HydroMetCentr (chief weather predicting institution in the country) tell what they do to develop technique for predicting these natural disasters, which doesn’t exist yet.

Invertebrates, inhabiting Russian north-eastern seas, are in real danger – the situation reminds of a standard Hollywood thriller. However, human beings are drama characters too, and they are even capable of changing the situation.

Russian geographers have found out how over three thousand glaciers of Caucasus, the Pamirs and Tien Shan mountain systems change.

The Russian Centre of Aeronautical Science and Technology in Zhukovsky, a Moscow satellite town, is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary on Friday.

Research fellows from Moscow Gubkin State Academy of Oil and Gas claim oil production should be temperate, and they have substantial reasons to say so since they suggest a geodynamic concept of continuous formation of hydrocarbon materials.

1st of February is the day when biologists of the Primorye region (Russian Far East) and neighbouring Chinese territories started recording population statistics of Far Eastern leopards. Said monitoring process is a joint project of Russian branch of World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Far Eastern branch of Russian Academy of Sciences.

Russian Academy of Sciences plans to publish the dictionary of Mikhail Lomonosov in 2011, when scientific community all over the world will celebrate 300 anniversary of the genius.

Russian spacecraft manufacturer Energia has come out with several ideas for Russian space programme for the period up to 2050. Mentioned suggestions for the Russian space programme consist of four stages.

Russian scientists have suggested a technique for detecting stomach cancer – bacteria are invisible though indispensable human helpers.

Several years ago the ecosystem of the Black sea was nearly collapsed, but this time human beings were not to blame.