Scientists from Ural State University have developed a unique LED lamp, which is several times more efficient, than a common street light.

Russian Academy of Sciences reports about development of a supercomputer, able to perform as many as 100 trillion operations per second.

Our organisms have a blood system and a lymphatic system, in which liquid moves thanks to contractions of lymph vessels. Russian scientists believe that lymph nodes may act like additional pumps for this system.

Russian architects have developed a smart house, called “The Ark”, which is able to use alternative energy sources and provide electricity and heat for its dwellers.

Russian zoologists studied behaviour of white whales in order to understand how brain asymmetry affected relations between mother whales and their children.

Russian meteorologists have detected 1002 dangerous hydrometeorological events in Russia during 2010, and only 110 of them haven’t been predicted.

University of St. Petersburg will open a research and education centre for mathematical systems biology.

International space astrophysical observatory “Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma”, scheduled for launch for 2012-2013, will help scientists to compile full map of the sky in X-ray radiation range and to perform a “census” for all galactic clusters.

Scientists from Russia, USA, Germany and Canada have finished deciphering nuclear genome of a mysterious hominin, which bone was found in Denisov cave by Russian archeologists.

For the first time in our country a patient got a trachea, made of a donor “framework” and her own cells, which later will develop into necessary tissues.