Chinese team from Zhejiang was the best in the International Collegiate Programming Contest 2011, and Russian team from St. Petersburg ranked fourth.

A unique research facility, hosted on a survey motor boat, is currently studying water and bottom of the Caspian Sea.

Russian weapon-makers from Nizhniy Novgorod demonstrated a new grenade launcher, designed for special forces. New grenade launcher doesn’t produce any loud noise, fire or smoke.

The final of International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), in which students form 11 Russian cities will participate, takes place today in Orlando.

Scientists from Lebedev Institute of Physics (Russian academy of sciences) and International Laser Centre of Moscow State University are working on a small device, fed by a polymer solar battery.

Russian researchers from Orenburg State University suggest an explanation for functional difference of visually symmetrical cerebral hemispheres.

Russian physicists will soon end developing a new type of space ships for monitoring the Sun from a very close distance – less than Mercury’s orbit.

Russian engineers, working in the field of nanotechnologies, suggest several techniques for restoration and construction works.

Russian physicists from Kurchatov research centre decided to revive and modernize a unique particle collider – a proton accelerator, located in the Moscow Region.

A month of no visits has started in the Valley of Geysers, Kamchatka Peninsula, because of beginning of a mating season of bears, inhabiting the site.