Famous experiment on simulating a manned mission to Mars “Mars-500” will not switch to winter with the whole country. Instead, participants may start using Martian time.

South Federal University, located in Rostov-on-Don, announced opening of an interdisciplinary student laboratory “Nano-design: physics, chemistry and computer modeling”.

Nanomaterials are the new Bible today – everything is made in, by, or somehow with these trendy materials. However, their effect on life is still obscure. Russian researchers have shed some light on this mystery.

Russian researchers worked with 16 strains of glowing bacteria from Azov and Black seas and found two strains, which can show whether water in reservoirs is toxic or not.

The possibility of the Apophis asteroid to collide with our planet is extremely low, however, if it happens, the asteroid would destroy a region, as large as a country, with an explosion more powerful, than all nuclear weapons of the mankind, Russian astronomers say.

Lightnings during thunderstorms generate nitrous oxides, which have a great effect on Earth’s atmosphere, which was previously never taken in consideration in climatic models, Russian researchers say.

Russian Nuclear Centre in Sarov prepared candidate releases of software packages for solving problems of hydrodynamics, aerodynamics and statics for supercomputers.

Tests, performed by Russian reaches, showed that humic acids, a common component of soils and mud, can reduce blood sugar level.

Second All-Russian conference of young scientists “Macromolecular nano-objects and polymer nano-composites” started working yesterday in Moscow Region.

Researchers from Italy, Russia, Norway and Japan are going to study dark matter by means of a new generation ground-based gamma-ray instrument – Cherenkov telescope.