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22.12.2000
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A SPIDER FACTORY FOR THE SILK INDUSTRY
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Russian scientists have created a unique analogue of the natural compositional material that spiders weave their cobwebs from. If the inventors succeed in introducing the technology into industry, then scientists will get the material that can be made use of, when producing body armour, ropes and stitch materials for microsurgery.
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Moscow
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22.12.2000
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BLACK RATS ARE AFRAID OF PEOPLE
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Domestication of animals results in changes in their appearance. Most of the time one can predict from the appearance of an animal, what its attitude to a man will be. Russian Foundation for Basic Research supported the investigation.
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Novosibirsk
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22.12.2000
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IT WILL BE POSSIBLE TO PREDICT EARTHQUAKES FROM SPAC
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The scientists of the Department of Physics, Moscow State University, have proposed to predict earthquakes by measuring polarization of the solar light that is reflected from the surface of the Earth. The small and cheap equipment, which the scientists have designed, can be placed on meteorological satellites.
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Moscow
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15.12.2000
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SUNFLOWER OF THE FUTURE
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In several years the fields of sunflowers will look quite differently from the way they do now. Sunflowers will be low, with big heads. They will grow close to each other and won't be afraid of frosts. It is this profitable variety that Kuban scientists have bred.
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Krasnodar
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15.12.2000
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LIZARD WITHOUT TAIL IS AN INVALID FOR THE REST OF THE LIFE
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Researchers of Bashkir State University studied lizards at Ural for several years and found that human presence was likely to have strong influence on their life that depended on the longitude of lizards' tail.
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Ufa
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15.12.2000
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DO NOT HIDE FROM RAIN UNDER A FIRTREE
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Russian scientists have found out that industrial contamination of atmosphere has more impact on flora and soil under the trees and the trees as such than on the space between the crowns. The study has been funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the President's grant.
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Apatity, Murmansk Region
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15.12.2000
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EARTHWORMS - FOOD OF THE FUTURE?
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Scientists from Saratov State Agricultural University are sure that the worms which are able to transform any organic waste into a useful fertilizer should be of interest to people as a source of nutritious and indispensable bioactive compounds. From the scientists' point of view, the time when the useful and nourishing dishes from earthworms become popular and fashionable is close at hand.
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Saratov
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08.12.2000
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TYRANNOSAURS IN AMUR REGION
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Russian paleontologists have found a fossil vertebra of a huge dinosaur. They suppose that they are faced with an unusual species of predatory tyrannosaur which was unknown before.
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Moscow
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08.12.2000
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POTATOES CAN NOT BE PRESERVED INFINITELY
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Numerous varieties of potatoes are kept in special collections: potato sprouts are preserved in sterile nutrient medium for years. The purpose is to ensure that healthy potato plants are available to the farmers at any time. Nevertheless, Russian scientists have proved that after a ten-year cultivation in artificial nutrient medium, potatoes fail to root in the soil.
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Ufa
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01.12.2000
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ON TRAILS OF ANCIENT SEA GRASSES
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Paleobotanists from St. Petersburg have found that ancestry of sea grasses had come to sea from desert 40 million years ago. The study was supported by International Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C., and by Linnean Society of London
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St. Petersburg
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01.12.2000
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WHERE DOES PLAGUE COME FROM?
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Russian scientists have put forward a hypothesis that plague microbes came into being about a million years ago in Siberia and Central Asia, where the climate had undergone a change to become extremely continental. At that point marmots, namely subspecies of Marmota bobak Sibirica, that are plugging up the holes with their excrement, came to populate this area. This hypothesis enables the scientists to predict the locations of new pestholes.
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Moscow
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01.12.2000
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WHY CANNOT CUCUMBERS STAND COLD?
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Cucumber plants freeze even if they stay for twenty-four hours at a temperature of -0.5C. But tomato bushes are much more resistant to cold weather. Russian scientists have studied the causes of these differences and found out that the system of photosynthesis is the most sensitive to cold.
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