Russian scientists have developed the first nanolaboratory in the world, which combined various research techniques for materials, and this developed was recently awarded the Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award.

A biotechnological park, consisting of several large enterprises and about a hundred small ones, will appear in the town of Koltsovo, located in Novosibirsk Region, by 2015.

A delegation from Australia and the SKA (Square Kilometer Array) project has recently visited Russia in order to invite Russian researchers to participate in the project.

Russian scientists have developed a new ecologically safe material for bags, which gets degraded in soils within two weeks.

Russian engineers started pilot production of nano-structure graphite for medical purposes.

Before summer 2011 ends, Russia plans to orbit 18 space vehicles of second generation, belonging to American Globalstar satellite communication system.

Russia plans to launch several European satellites by means of “Rokot” rocket carrier from Plesetsk launching site, mass media report.

Three participants of the international Mars manned mission simulation “Mars-500” will perform a virtual landing on the Red planet in February 2011.

Russian scientists work on protecting manned space stations on the Moon, Mars and other planets of the Solar system, by means of self-pressuring systems.

Unique data on thunderstorm formation in upper atmospheric layers were obtained during a series of geophysical experiments, performed at the International space station.