The launch of the Russian "Soyuz" spacecraft with an international crew aboard to the International Space Station (ISS) from the “Baikonur” cosmodrome is scheduled for March 27.

Specialists of the N.E.Zhukovsky Central Institute of Aerohydrodynamics (TsAGI) developed a technology platform (a set of interrelated technologies) of the accessible light multipurpose aircraft (LMA) with advanced deployment capabilities.

Nizhny Novgorod Research Institute of Measuring Systems plans to deliver the equipment for the nuclear power plants under construction in Belarus.

If it is necessary, the presence of the human researchers on the Moon will be guaranteed. This was stated by the head of ROSCOSMOS Vladimir Popovkin speaking at the 37th Academic Royal Readings.

The grants for the universities will be allocated on a competitive basis, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science will hold the competition and develop the requirements for the participants.

Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory in the U.S. city of Cambridge (Massachusetts) announced the laureates of the prestigious international award named after Edgar Wilson given for the discovery of new comets. Among them were three Russians - Leonid Elenin, Artem Novichonok and Vladimir Gerke.

Computer viruses will be able to cause physical damage to the various devices already in ten years. The well-known Russian programmer, the computer security expert Evgeny Kaspersky expressed his confidence in this probability.

The scientists of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) examine the structure of the brain of a mammoth for the first time in the world. The study will identify the differences and commonalities between elephants and mammoths.

Russian authorities will create the program under which every student of the country will have to visit the state capital – Moscow.

The students' academic performance declines at the initial stage of the reorganization of universities. This conclusion was reached in the study made by the Russian Union of Rectors by the results of the summer session in several universities which passed the reorganization.