Russian engineers started electric testing of a new geodetic satellite “Geo-IK-2”.

Russian government signed an agreement providing organization of production of nano-heterostructural photoconverters with efficiency coefficient of 37-45%, solar modules and new power facilities with echelon lenses and solar trackers.

Russian schoolboy built a model of a moon rover, aimed at search and exploitation of helium-3 deposits and other natural resources of Earth’s satellite.

Russian engineers work on a superconductive magnetic resonance imager, suitable for scanning whole body of a patient.

Russian state nanotechnology corporation “RosNano” will cooperate with American MP Biomedicals company in human life extension and ageing fight.

Oil spill, which currently takes place in the Gulf of Mexico, can become a model for possible spill elimination during deep-sea oil production, Russian scientists say.

Panel discussion on laser physics and its applications, involving Nobel Prize laureates and other eminent researchers from Russia and France, will take place in Moscow on May 13, 2010.

Head of Moscow State University Victor Sadovnichy offered cooperation in constructing a satellite to Japanese researchers.