During General meeting of Russian Academy of Sciences its members decided to open a new department, dealing with nanotechnologies.
      
      New department will open on the base of the department of information technologies and computer systems of the Russian science centre “Kurchatov Institute”. New science branch requires at least ten more academics and twenty corresponding members to enter the Academy.
      
      Appropriate amendments to the Academy’s regulations were approved by the majority of Academy members.
      
      Source: Science News