Scientific development and production centre “Saturn” together with IBM and KROK companies has recently announced launch of a joint project aimed at creating a supercomputer with productivity of 8 teraflops.

Eating genetically modified organisms can seriously damage human health, say scientists from the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysics.

Archeologsts have recently discovered graves of ancient Russian family of Ruriks (“Rurik” means “famous ruler”) in the town of Zmeinogorsk, reports famous Russian historian.

Soon Yekaterinburg scientists would start investigation on whether hypothetical bones of the Royal Russian Family really belonged to prince Alexey and princess Maria.

Another expedition arrived to the Altai Republic to search for meteorite, which has fallen this January, and to talk with those, who witnessed this event.

The Iturup island, which belongs to the Kurils, now hosts a geothermal power plant, built on the Baransky volcano.

Joint Russian and American team of ornithologists has recently started studying of rookeries, located on the Commander Islands, which bear the status of international biosphere reserve.

The best place to observe full sun eclipse, which is expected to happen on August 1, 2008, is the capital of the Altai Republic – town of Gorno-Altaisk, claim Russian and French astronomers, who have already booked a seat in the first row to make necessary science measurements.

Scientists from several Siberian universities have discovered that biogeochemical anomalies in deposits of complex ores appeared due to microbes and trees.

Last weekend first full-scale model of “Phobos-Grunt” interplanetary station has been presented during “MAKS-2007” air salon.