Unique astrophysical observatory “Spektr-R” has been launched today from Baikonur launching site. The research programme is called “RadioAstron”.

Researchers from Omsk suggest a project for making Russian trains less noisy, reduce vibration and locomotive power.

An inventor from Kaluga has built a winged car for simulation and practicing of take-off and landing.

Russian astronomers will bring back to life projects, suspended during Soviet times.

Russian scientists from the city of Omsk have developed a technique, which helps make air flows visible.

An international sailing regatta left St. Petersburg for the Arctic I order to draw people’s attention to the problems of the region.

Russian scientists and engineers from Tomsk and Cherepovets have come up with a new alloy for making crucial components for nuclear power plants.

Russian engineers have built a new communication device for Global Maritime Distress and Safety System, which can be installed on both civil and military vessels.

Today a group of archeologists heads for Khasansky district of Primorsky Territory in order to start diggings of a regional centre of ancient Bohai Kingdom.

International research group known as Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium, which included Russian scientists, has read potato genome and identified genes, responsible for bulb formation and accumulation of starch.