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IMPRINT OF DISEASE
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Voronezh scientists suggested an original express method which allows revealing the initial stages of diseases in plants caused by fungus pathogens. This simple method allows farmers to start curing plants in the earliest stage of a disease when the outward features have not appeared yet. In this case the plant is cured quickly and completely, and the farmers get maximal harvest.
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Ramon', Voronezh region
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27.04.2001
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RUSSIA RELEASE LESS CARBON DIOXIDE THAN IT ABSORBS
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Humankind is concerned about global warming. People want to know how much carbon dioxide comes to the atmosphere and to what limit industrial release should be reduced. According to calculations made by Russian scientists, Russia absorbs more carbon dioxide than it releases. The study is supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Russian Federation.
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Pushchino, Moscow Region
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27.04.2001
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ANCIENT CROCODILES GALLOPING ALL OVER ASIA
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Moscow paleontologists have discovered fossils of a new species of ancient crocodiles in Mongolia. In the Mesozoic Period these fast-running reptiles of the size of a comparatively small dog inhabited the banks of lakes and rivers.
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Moscow
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ECOLOGICAL CRISIS DESTROYED THE BIGGEST FEUDAL STATE OF 15TH CENTURY
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Why did the Golden Horde fell? Historians find different explanations: the straggle of the oppressed peoples, the inner political controversies, and the lack of connections among the parts of this enormous feudal state. The Russian orientalist Eduard Kulpin considered this problem in quite a new way and came to the conclusion that in the second half of the fourteenth and in the fifteenth centuries a socio-ecological crisis broke down in the East-European steppe. The Russian Foundation for Humanitarian Research supported the research.
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Moscow
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27.04.2001
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DON'T SEND YOUR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL AT AN EARLY AGE
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According to Russian scientists children are able to fully perceive visual information about an object only by nine up to ten years of age. One must take it into consideration, while teaching school children.
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Ekaterinburg
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20.04.2001
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SPACE TRAVELLER
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Scientists of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Scientists have proposed a new strategy of space exploration - a project 'Space Traveller'. The project should be technically based on a manned spaceship of a new type. The new strategy will increase the efficiency of space exploration and allow everyone to take part in it.
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Krasnoyarsk
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20.04.2001
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CHRONICLE OF MARTIAN EXPEDITION
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Russian scientists have developed a concept of manned space flight to Mars. They believe that people could survive during prolonged space expedition without essential harm to health. The work is supported by International Science and Technology Centre (ISTC).
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Moscow
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20.04.2001
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STARRY SKY BY THE EYES OF RUSSIAN SCHOOLCHILDREN
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Students of two Russian schools have got an opportunity to use data of the unique world telescopes and communicate in the field of astronomy with children from twelve other countries. British Council in Moscow has announced the launch of the project "International School Observatory" in Russia.
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Moscow
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20.04.2001
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HEARING ELECTRIC SOUND THROUGH HANDS
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A radio engineer from Samara has developed an interesting device. According to the experiment results, the device can transform the electric signal outcoming, for instance, from a tape recorder, and transmit the signal through a person's skin enabling the person to 'hear' the sound without a loud speaker.
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Samara
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13.04.2001
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JURASSIC PARK IN THE VICINITY OF MOSCOW
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Moscow paleontologists have discovered the remnants of Coelurosaurs dinosaurs in one of the Moscow Region open pits. This is the first finding of the secondary period terrestrial pangolins in the vicinity of Moscow. Coelurosaurs used to inhabit the territory of the present-day Moscow Region approximately 175 million years ago.
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Moscow
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13.04.2001
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EARTHQUAKE HUNTERS
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Russian scientists have developed an on-line tracking system to forecast earthquakes. Small groups of specialists with the help of the state-of-the-art satellite facilities will be constantly tracking the state of the ionosphere and the earth's crust in seismically dangerous areas. The project will be already tested on the territory of Russia by the end of the year.
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Moscow
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13.04.2001
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FOR REINDEERS POLAR SUMMER IS WORSE THAN WINTER
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Reindeers that easily endure frost in winter can die because of overheating during a short polar summer. Youngsters of the first year of life are most vulnerable. This study has been made by the International Research Centre "Arctika" with partial support of Russian Foundation of Basic Research.
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Magadan
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06.04.2001
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FLAX CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE DECODED FIRST
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Russian scientists in collaboration with their colleagues from Belorussia have pioneered identification of flax chromosome. The obtained results will help flax breeders to create new varieties of the plant faster and more efficiently.
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Moscow
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06.04.2001
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MALE DUCKS ARE ACQUIRING FEMALE FEATURES
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During half a century city ducks have evolved along the same lines as human beings: females have acquired some male features, and males - some female features.
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Moscow
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06.04.2001
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MODESTY NOT ONLY MAKES A GIRL MORE LOVELY, BUT PROLONGS HER LIFE
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Why do calm and steady people live longer than aggressive ones? Can you train a fidget to sit still and a meek child to be more active? Kazan scientists answer these and some other questions.
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Kazan
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06.04.2001
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RADIOACTIVE CAESIUM TAKEN WITH BREAST MILK
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Not all the radionuclides entering the body could reach breasts. Moscow scientists have found that radiocaesium is the exception: it is easily accumulated in the breasts and then it is transferred to progeny with breast milk.
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Institute of Biophysics (State Research Centre of Russian Federation)
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06.04.2001
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MEASURING TIME WITH MUSCLES
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Children of primary school age are much better at measuring off time intervals by pressing the lever (i.e. making some action), than by judging them verbally. The scientists believe that active perception of time, when muscles are engaged, is more correct, than passive perception
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Ekaterinburg
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06.04.2001
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RUSSIA'S VIRGIN LANDS: UNBRIDLED LIKE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Russian government meant to settle the prime of the French nation in the Crimea and the Azov sea maritime territories after the war with Turkey. But they failed to turn these virgin and very thinly populated lands into a flourishing country. Dmitry A. Rostislavlev restores the history of the unsuccessful re-settling of the French political emigrants into the South of Russia, basing on the documents he found in the Archive of the Russian Empire Foreign Policy.
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