Scientists from Novosibirsk repeated the great biological experiment of prehistoric man and tamed foxes. Ancient man spent a thousand years to do it, modern specialists spent half a century on it.

Russian physicists from Incorporated Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna (Moscow Region) jointly with their colleagues from the USA will suggest to international community versions of names for the superheavy chemical elements 114 and 116 this autumn.

The scientists from the Ural are working on the system, which can help to control the state of health of patients with the help of mobile telephone.

A new telecom satellite, which will replace the lost Express AM-4, will be put to orbit before 2015, Yevgeny Buidinov, the director general of the Space Communications Deputy, said.

Scientists of the Institute of Neurocybernetics of Southern Federal University invented an apparatus for the control of stimulation of brain, which allows to cure depression and several mental diseases.

On Friday a group of Russian and U.S. scientists left the port of Vladivistok on board of a Russian research ship "Academician Lavrentyev" to study methane emissions in the eastern part of the Arctic.

Today more than 7 million students begin the new academic year in Russian universities, according to Russian Deputy Minister of Education Maxim Dulinov. It is 500 thousand less than in 2010.