“International Smoking Control Day. Shocking Oncology Statistics” Press Conference To Be Held In “Izvestia” Newspaper Office Tomorrow.

These are the words of the director of Russian Science and Research Institute of Veterinary Sanitation, Hygiene and Ecology, RAAS (Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences) academician A. Smirnov. During recent press conference he made a report, informing press that bird flu H5N1 virus is environmentally stable, and with incorrectly taken sanitary and epidemiological measures the infection can be spread further.

Unique blood substitute is ready to be produced in Obninsk biotechnology park

A mermaid is flying in outer space, observing the level of carbon dioxide and methane and telling people about what it sees. “Is it a fairy tale”, one may ask. It is not.

51st Russian Antarctic expedition takes off from Saint Petersburg today. Russian Polar fleet flagship “Akademic Fedorov” starts its 6-month journey to the South Pole, taking 150 people to the very south of our planet.

About 300 students have taken part in the anti-fascist “March Against Hatred” held in Saint Petersburg Sunday, November 6.

Russian scientists qualified for the final of the prestigious Rene Descartes Award Contest. The submitted project “Climate and Environmental Change in the Arctic” (CECA) was developed by international research consortium headed by professor Johannessen of NERSC – Nansen Environment and Remote Survey Centre (Bergen, Norway). Besides Norway CECA science and research team includes German scientists (Max Planck Meteorology Institute, Hamburg) headed by Lennart Bengtson and Russian scientists (Nansen Environment and Remote Survey International Centre, Saint Petersburg) headed by Leonid Bobylev.

Today every viewer can create his personal TV channel. The only thing he needs to do is to use the cutting-edge technology, developed in Russia.

Scientists from Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Microorganisms’ Biochemistry and Physiology want to find new bioactive compounds. For this purpose they’ve started exploring relic mushrooms, isolated from ancient sediments, found in the permafrost zone.

Archeologists found unique artifacts at the bottom of Azov Sea – where now Taman Bay is, and ancient town of Fanagoria was in VI century