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BACTERIA CLEAN WATER OF CADMIUM USING THEIR SKIN
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Moscow scientists have fount that some cyanobacteria feed on cadmium salts dissolved in the water. Cadmium is a heavy metal toxic for living organisms. Maybe the bacteria help people to clean rivers contaminated with industrial wastes.
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Moscow
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ONE MORE ACTIVE VOLCANO DISCOVERED ON KAMCHATKA
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Russian scientists have determined an age of earlier unknown eruptions of Khangar volcano on Kamchatka. The volcano was considered as extinct, but the data of radiocarbon analysis have shown that it is alive. The work was supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the National Geographic Society, the USA.
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Moscow
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FANTASTIC PINES
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Russian scientists have published the results of 12-year observations for pines grown in the closed zone of the Chernobyl NPP. The work was finished due to the financial support of Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
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Moscow
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WHAT HAPPENS TO FEMALE EMBRYOS?
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Female embryos have significantly less chance to live up to the middle of pregnancy than male embryos, Tomsk geneticists have found. Young male embryos are more viable than female ones.
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Tomsk
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24.08.2001
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SOLAR ENERGY: ELECTRICITY OUT OF A HELICOPTER TURBINE
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In the mountains of Armenia radiophysicists are building a concentrator of sun energy equipped with a big spherical mirror. It will produce electricity on an industrial scale.
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Yerevan, Armenia
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24.08.2001
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HEAVY PARTICLES ATTACK EYES
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In outer space man is influenced by heavy charged particles which spoil the eyes irreversibly. The work was supported by Federal Scientific and Technological Program "Investigations and Developments on Priority Directions of Scientific and Technological Progress for Civil Purposes" and Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
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Moscow
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24.08.2001
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COMMON SHREW SHOWS THE WAY
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The scientists from Novosibirsk, having investigated the chromosomes of Siberian shrews, drew up the route these animals followed returning to the North after the glaciation. Human beings could have returned the same way. The research has been supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and INTAC.
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Novosibirsk
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17.08.2001
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WHEN WILL A PROTUBERANCE TEAR OFF?
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The space weather has started to impact our life significantly, soon its forecast will be as necessary and customary as the everyday weather forecast in the evening news. The scientists of the Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio-Wave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences, have developed a new method for early forecasting of magnetic storms.
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Troitsk, Moscow Region
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10.08.2001
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BEETLES CONTRIBUTE TO BERINGIA STUDY
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Numerous remains of the heat-loving beetles, found in the huge country of the past times called Beringia, have made scientists to reconsider the typical image of the tundra in the glacial epoch. Helpfully, entomologists are capable to determine accurately the temperatures of the beetles' habitat 12-14 thousand years ago. The work on the reconstruction of the climate of Beringia have been supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
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Magadan
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10.08.2001
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SEAGULLS: PROFESSIONAL ESCORT
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Seagulls turn out to be fond of seeing off trains as well as ships. Why do they do that? The ornithologist at the Kandalaksha National Park shares the results of his observations.
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10.08.2001
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PEOPLE AND VIPERS
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The staff of the Central Black-Earth Zone Biosphere Preserve named after Professor V. Alekhin have undertaken an unprecedented operation to remove to the open steppe all poisonous steppe vipers (Vipera ursinii) from the summer houses area in the Kursk Region. Both people and vipers sighed with relief.
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Kursk Region, Village Zapovedny
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10.08.2001
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NOISE WHICH HELPS US
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We live in the permanent noise environment, which is considered to disturb us. However, according to Russian scientists a low-level noise does not impede hearing what we want to hear and in some cases increases human ability of reacting to sounds.
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St.-Petersburg
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03.08.2001
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NEVER CATCH FISH IN TURBID WATER
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Why do fish in turbid water reject food and get sick? Russian biologists, supported by the Programme "Leading Scientific Schools", Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the Programme "Russian Universities", found an answer to this question.
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Moscow
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03.08.2001
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FROST-RESISTANT EARTHWORMS
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Earthworms participate actively in the soil fertilization. However, they are unable to stand the frosts, that is why they do not live in cold areas. Russian scientists have found out the earthworm species well adapted to the frosts. The scientists have even determined the territories where this very useful worm species can be settled out.
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Magadan
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03.08.2001
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REJUVENATION OF OLD MONKEYS
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The living organism ageing results in the eventual disorder of its functions and processes. It partially happens due to the hormone synthesis disruption. Russian scientists have come forward with a new remedy to prevent ageing, its action being based on the recovery of the normal hormonal status.
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Sochi
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