An unusual experiment will be held at Tambov State University May 10-31. During three weeks 25 student volunteers will not use computers, mobile phones, tablets and other popular gadgets.

Representatives of 26 school scientific communities will participate in the forum February 25-26.

The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) has revealed results of the latest opinion poll, in which Russian schoolchildren expressed their career aspirations.

Forecasters predict that a new ice age will begin soon. Habibullo Abdusamatov, a scientist from the Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences considers that the sharp drop in temperature will start on the Earth in 2014.

On Thursday, two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station (ISS) to fulfill some of the necessary tasks under the Russian space program.

Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Rosgidromet) is creating a national system for monitoring the space weather. The system will include a special flying laboratory.

Teachers who proposed to revive hobby groups popular in Soviet times, have been supported by deputies of Moscow City Duma.

A new draft bill on the governmental funding of education in private schools and kindergartens will be discussed in the Russian State Duma. The document was approved in the first reading November 17.

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania confirmed that Native Americans came from Altai Territory, southern Siberia.

The head of Skolkovo Fund Victor Vekselberg announced that Russian innovation center would send first tourists to space in three years.