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17.02.2001
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VOLCANOES OF KAMCHATKA AND NORTHERN KURIL ISLANDS ARE DANGEROUS FOR AVIATION
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Clouds of volcanic ash can rise as high as modern airplanes fly, thus presenting serious danger to aircraft. Particles of ash hit upon warmed-up turbine blades, melt, stick to the moving parts and stop the turbines. Russian volcanists and geochemists have studied the ash content of 26 volcanoes and have identified volcanoes most dangerous for airplane flights.
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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
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17.02.2001
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MICROBES CAN BE MADE TO CONSUME OIL
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Russian scientists have developed a new method of fine purification of oil-pollutant effluents. This dirty work can be successfully accomplished by microbes, if they are well stimulated to do it. And the agents capable to stimulate them are discharged by some water plants.
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Kazan
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17.02.2001
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VIRTUAL REALITY SAVES THE NATURE
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The pilot site 'Virtual Biological Museum' has started its work at http://www.iteb.serpukhov.su/biomuseum. (At present the information at the site is in Russian).
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Pushino
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09.02.2001
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HOW DO SPROUTS AND ROOTS GROW IN MAGNETIC FIELD
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Russian and American scientists use magnetic field to simulate gravitation effect on plants and help them to choose the right direction of growth in zero-gravity conditions, e.g. on the board of a spaceship.
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Moscow
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09.02.2001
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PLANTS FIGHT ROCKET FUEL CONTAMINATION
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After rocket launching not only ozone holes occur, but also puddles of toxic rocket fuel, which poisons soil, plants and air. Russian scientists have worked out and introduced the technology of restoring the contaminated soil: plants cure it.
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St-Petersburg
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05.02.2001
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EARTHQUAKES HAPPEN AT FULL MOON
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Russian physicists have found that flashes of neutron radiation from the Earth surface are bound to increasing in seismic activity. They believe that this phenomenon can be used as a novel kind of earthquake foreboding.
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Moscow
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05.02.2001
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CARPS COMMUNICATE WITH SCALES
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Fish do not speak but they are capable of exchanging information with each other. Carps' state of health can be judged by the chemical contents of mucus their scales are covered with. Moscow biologists have come to this conclusion in the course of research with partial support from the Council for Grants of the President of Russian Federation, supporting leading scientific schools, and the Program "Universities of Russia".
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Moscow
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05.02.2001
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VIKINGS: TURNED SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES?
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Moscow archaeologists have excavated unique finds in the town of Vikings - in Gnezdovo, which is situated near Smolensk. They discovered traces of spades and tips of ploughs. So Vikings turn out to have not only been at war, but to have been engaged in ploughing as well.
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