The carrier rocket Proton-M with the upper stage Breeze-M and the Express AM5 communication satellite onboard has been launched from Baikonur spaceport.

Russian scientists have found the most ancient spider in coal formations of the Rostov Region. Its age makes about 315 million years.

Russian presidential aide Andrei Fursenko headed the board of guardians of the Russian Scientific Foundation, as the official web portal for legal information announces. The board of guardians also includes the former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov.

A Russian researcher has made it into the Top 10 list of ‘people who mattered in 2013’ compiled by Nature, one of the prestigious science magazines.

Russian scientists from the Moscow State University (MSU) theoretically proved the possibility to experimentally distinguish the symmetry of the order parameter in the new high-temperature superconductors based on iron. Their article written in cooperation with foreign colleagues was published in the scientific journal “Superconductor Science and Technology”.

Russian scientists proposed “revolutionary” changes in the methods of oil and gas extraction. The idea is to use a laser instead of a drill; the new method does not destroy the rock, but melts it.

Solemn send-off of the recruits of the first naval research company was held at St. Petersburg's city assembly point. Conscripts will serve in Pushkin town’s cantonment, where VUNTS Navy "Naval Academy" Research Institute (of Operational and Strategic Studies of Naval Construction) and the Naval Polytechnic Institute are based.

Seven state colleges are set for a major overhaul after a comprehensive assessment done by the Education Ministry across the establishments providing tertiary education.