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LASER HELPS TO CREATE MUTANT
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Modern selection has exhausted all the resources of most agricultural crops and it is keenly interested in new mutations. Russian and Moldavian scientists in their co-work have shown that laser radiation of a certain wavelength causes these long-awaited mutations in plants.
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Ryazan
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26.01.2001
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WILD GUPPY IN THE MOSKVA RIVER
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One of the favourite topics of fantastic movies: little harmless creatures accidentally get into sewer system where they become wild, brutalize and start to terrorize their neighbourhood. Now Russian researchers investigated what we could expect from wild guppy. Their study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Researches.
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Moscow
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26.01.2001
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ALGAE CONSUME CARBON DIOXIDE
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Russian scientists have found microalgae, which grow in the atmosphere of pure carbon dioxide. The researchers believe that this finding will help not only to utilize smoke fumes, which cause the greenhouse effect, but also to produce substances of commercial interest. The study is being funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
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Moscow
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26.01.2001
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IRRADIATED CHROMOSOMES: ABNORMALITY BECOMES NORMAL
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Russian scientists have found abnormal chromosomes in abnormal quantities in the cells of mouse-like rodents that live in the territories polluted with radiation - the Chernobyl NPP area and the area of East-Urals radioactive trail after the accident of 1957.
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Syktyvkar
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19.01.2001
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WHY IS COD FISHERY IN JEOPARDY?
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Russian scientists from the Knipovich Polar Research Institute for Sea Fishery in Murmansk have been investigating the Atlantic cod distribution in the area of the Great Newfoundland Shoal. They have noticed an interesting regularity: where the cod is numerous, there is no food, and stomachs of the majority of fish are empty, but in other locations where the food is sufficient, for some reason there is practically no fish. Having determined the reasons for such discrepancy, the scientists came to the conclusion that the cod fishery is in jeopardy in this area.
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Murmansk
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19.01.2001
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LASER WILL MONITOR GREENHOUSE EFFECT
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Scientists at the Institute of Radiotechniques and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences (Fryazino, Moscow region) have offered to monitor the greenhouse effect using the laser installed on the satellite.
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Fryazino, Moscow Region
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19.01.2001
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ARCTIC CLONING
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Sea polyp Obelia easily realizes the dream of many scientists - it can clone itself. The polyp occupies Arctic seas from Barents to Chuckchee by its copies. However, such genetic homogeneity makes population of Obelia very prone to unfavourable environmental changes.
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Murmansk, ul. Vladimirskaja, 17, 183010
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19.01.2001
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HOW TO REAR A WOLF IN CAPTIVITY?
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Russians have the proverb about wolf: no matter how well you feed a wolf, it will be looking towards the wood. Now zoologists claimed that the proverb is not correct if we applied it to the real, not to the fairy wolves. Whether the wolf reared in captivity could live in wood depended on how it was fed.
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Tbilisi
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12.01.2001
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WHO'S WHO: THE MAN OR THE APE?
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On finding out the general history of human evolution scientists keep on verifying the time of certain events. Russian scientists have made another correction in the pedigree tree of the human. They compared the succession of the genes that codes hemoglobin proteins in humans and anthropoid apes.
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Moscow
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12.01.2001
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DHOLES CAN SPEAK IN TWO VOICES
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Researchers at the Moscow Zoo found that dholes could produce two different sounds simultaneously, using different parts of vocal apparatus. Studying their vocal repertory, the researchers decoded the meaning of wolves' sounds and actually wrote a dictionary to translate from 'dholish' to human.
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