Russian geneticists now have a bank of full genetic information on all female sturgeons of Russian Federation, which produce caviar.

Russian medics now have a totally safe reagent, based upon ascorbic acid, for development of X-ray images. The reagent was created in Novosibirsk, Siberian flag-city of Russian science.

Scientists resume negotiations with government of the Altay Republic. They discuss famous “Altay princess”, a mummy of a woman, discovered at the Ukok plateau in 1993.

Russian scientists think that Scythians were ancestors of East Afghans, and not Ossetians, as was considered before.

Recent expedition to the Antarctic resulted in samples of cereals, which can be used in creating new frost-resistant wheat.

Students from Moscow State Vehicle and Traffic Institute have won a robotics contest, which took place in the Russian capital on Saturday.

Scientists from Murmansk observe Greenland seal pups from space.

A contest in robotic technologies will take place in Ural State University tomorrow. Participants will present computer programmes for robots to imitate their behavior during a mission to Mars.

A long time ago Southern Kurils were a part of a bridge between Smaller Kuril chain, Kunashir Island and Hokkaido Island during the last ice age, Russian scientists say

Water of deep hydrothermal vents in rich in heavy metals, hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen and methane. How fauna of these habitats survives in such dangerous environments?