Today the crew of International space station actively fulfills scientific space programme – cosmonauts will perform 11 experiments in biology, geophysics and space medicine.

Two days ago the scientific vessel “Akademic Fedorov” headed for the Antarctica with 70 crewmembers and 110 polar explorers aboard.

Russia and Belarus agreed to create a united bank for storing space data, received during federal programme “Kosmos-NT”, Russian participants announced.

Russian scientists developed a technique for remote biochemical analysis of flora by means of hyper-spectral monitoring.

Russian scientists found out that mammoths suffered from same diseases that affected elephants.

Shooting of a documentary about Russian polar explorers will start this week in the Antarctica.

Last week ground-effect craft “Ivolga” successfully passed test flights.

Russian academicians, members of department of nanotechnologies and information technologies (Russian Academy of Sciences), and researchers, who deal with enzyme processes and bioenergy, have recently met for the discussion.

Russian and Chinese engineers plan a joint project on developing automated systems for controlling energy consumption.