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26.04.2002
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CHIMPANZEES BUILD WITH A DRAWING
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The experiment of Russian scientists carried out in Koltushy, the place where a famous Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov worked, has demonstrated that chimpanzees can build a pyramid of cubes using a drawing approximately at the same speed and with the same number of mistakes as the children with the retention of speech development.
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COSMONAUTS, MIND THE GALACTIC RADIATION!
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Space expeditions will fly to the Mars in fifteen years if all prerequisites are successfully met. For the future interplanetary expedition Moscow scientists have developed an efficient system to protect the crew from space radiation during the long-term travel to the Mars and back.
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CHIMPANZEES BUILD WITH A DRAWING
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The experiment of Russian scientists carried out in Koltushy, the place where a famous Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov worked, has demonstrated that chimpanzees can build a pyramid of cubes using a drawing approximately at the same speed and with the same number of mistakes as the children with the retention of speech development.
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St. Petersburg
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26.04.2002
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SHOES TO PASS TO THE NEXT WORLD
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Excavating ancient burials in Moscow and other Russian cities and towns, Russian archaeologists very often find footwear. The slippers for the dead were made in a particular way especially for funerals.
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Moscow
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26.04.2002
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COSMONAUTS, MIND THE GALACTIC RADIATION!
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Space expeditions will fly to the Mars in fifteen years if all prerequisites are successfully met. For the future interplanetary expedition Moscow scientists have developed an efficient system to protect the crew from space radiation during the long-term travel to the Mars and back.
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LETTUCE DOES NOT WORRY ABOUT THE CLOBAL WARMING
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The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of our planet continuously increases. In this connection, scientists and all other people are concerned about many things, in particular, what will grow in the new conditions and how. The Russian scientists give first answers to these questions.
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St. Petersburg
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26.04.2002
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SALT MEMORY OF THE OCEAN
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Russian meteorologists have found out, that for a long time the ocean surface maintains information about the last typhoon and the rainfall amount. It is possible, using these data, to calculate the typhoon energy and to model it.
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Obninsk
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26.04.2002
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BRUNO WITH THREE WHEELS
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Scientists from the Centre of Science and Education "Robototekhnika" of the Moscow Bauman State Technical University have created mobile robots which can move and take decisions without human participation. One of these robots has been named Bruno.
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Moscow
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19.04.2002
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A VOICE OF OTHER CIVILIZATIONS
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It is possible that in a few years astronomers will be able to 'hear' a voice of the Universe at a terahertz waveband. It is expected to happen when a new telescope called 'Submillimetron' is delivered to the International Space Station. An international team of scientists, including Russian researchers, are designing this telescope.
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Moscow
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19.04.2002
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WAR AND PEACE BY PROFESSOR BUTOVSKAYA
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Russian scientists believe that to study reconciliation is as useful as to study aggression. They followed the behavior of monkeys and children after a conflict and found lots in common.
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Moscow
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19.04.2002
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PRINTING INDUSTRY: CANCER DEVELOPMENT RISK
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Russian oncologists were the first in the world to estimate the professional risk of cancer development for women engaged in printing industry.
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Moscow
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19.04.2002
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MUTANT TOMATOS
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Nowadays, genetic methods for producing plants with new properties become more and more popular than traditional selection procedures. The plant's genome is altered either by inducing its mutation or by incorporating an alien gene. The scientists from St. Petersburg have obtained plants, which are mutant and transgenic at the same time.
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Saint Petersburg
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19.04.2002
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TO RAISE AND STORE POTATO
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To increase crop yields, fertilizers and growth stimulants are usually used. However, small dozes of these substances are ineffective, and high ones are hazardous both for plants and men. T.N. Martynova and her colleagues develop ecologically safe regulators of plant growth.
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19.04.2002
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ENZYMES MAKE WATER CLEAR
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Ecologists have got a quick, simple, and cheap method of water analysis in bodies of fresh water. The method is based on measuring the activity of enzymes that split proteins and complex carbohydrates. Using the method the scientists could estimate the quality of water in the rivers and lakes in Siberia and on Altai Territory. The work was supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
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Moscow
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19.04.2002
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GREY WOLVES ARE SMART
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The experiments carried out by Georgian scientists have proved that wolves are capable of counting objects, their quantity being up to seven. Wolves are also capable of learning a complex acoustic code, which identifies the number. Wolves successfully apply their intelligence to the collective hunting for big catch.
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Tbilisi
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19.04.2002
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DO NOT STRIP YOUR GARDEN
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With the first scent of spring, gardeners begin planning land treatments, among which the weeding procedure takes a significant place. However, weeding the space between rows in orchards is ineffective and even harmful. A favorable impact of wild herbs on the fertility of orchard soils is demonstrated by Krasnodar scientists, whose study has been supported by the Russian foundation for Basic Research.
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Krasnodar
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12.04.2002
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HOW LIFE ORIGINATED IN SPACE
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The eternal question about the origin of life on the Earth has no answer so far. One of the theories assumes that life on the Earth might have originated in space. Russian scientists successfully reproduced the experiment carried out by Nature three and a half billion years ago.
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St. Peterburg
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12.04.2002
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BETTER SMALLER, BUT MORE
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The spawn of city frogs differs from that of their relatives from wild habitats by a smaller size, but a higher number of eggs, conclude Russian biologists, who studied the spawn of these amphibians in ponds of Moscow and suburbs for several years.
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Moscow
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12.04.2002
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PREHISTORIC TUMOUR
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It is difficult to reconstitute the case history of a creature which died hundreds of millions years ago, since the scientists have at their disposal only the creature's bones affected by time. Nevertheless, the traces of some diseases remain even on the bones. When examining the skull fragment of a prehistoric amphibian, the scientists have found a malignant tumour on the skull - this is the case of the most ancient tumour known to palaeontologists. The research has been supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
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Moscow
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03.04.2002
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HOW TO CATCH EL-NINO
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Russian scientists have proposed a new way to predict El-Nino. The coming of this catastrophic natural event may be forecasted by the amount of tropical typhoons, which appear in the Pacific Ocean.
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Obninsk
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03.04.2002
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DATING OF THE TURIN SHROUD WAS INCORRECT
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Ministers of Church entrusted the scientists from the USA, Great Britain and Switzerland to determine the age of the Turin Holy Shroud by small fragments. Unfortunately, Russian scientists were not invited to participate in this project. However, it appears that the western experts have incorrectly determined the age of the sacred relic.
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Moscow
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03.04.2002
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THE WINNER GETS ALL. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
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Is it possible to compare the aggression of human beings and animals? The scientists from Novosibirsk believe that it is. The research has been supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
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Novosibirsk
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03.04.2002
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THE FIELDFARE PROTECTS SMALL BIRDS
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A small bird has several ways of protecting its nest from ruining: to hide the nest carefully, to attack the predator collectively or to settle down near the birds which are capable of protecting themselves. Small birds most often seek other birds' protection in the cities and towns where there is no place to hide themselves, and where the crows are having the upper hand. This study of the Moscow biologists has been funded through the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the program for support of the leading scientific schools, Department of Science and Industrial Policy of the Government of Moscow and the 'Bio-diversity' subprogram (Federal Scientific Research Program).
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