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BURYAT WOMEN NEVER CONCEALED THEIR AGE
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Buryatia scientists studied traditional female clothing of the Buryat people and came to a conclusion that it showed exactly the age of the person, who wore it.
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Ulan-Ude
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GLOBAL WARMING IS NO THREAT TO MIGRANT BIRDS OF RUSSIA
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Some researchers assert that the global climate warming is a threat to the existence of migrant birds, which spend winter in the southern hemisphere. Scientists from St. Petersburg disagree with that. Their study has been supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
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St. Petersburg
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30.08.2002
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INVISIBLE ENEMY OF BIOSPHERE
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It is possible that trichloroacetic acid, a substance formed from industrial chlorine-containing gases, seriously affects biosphere. Scientists of the Oboukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics in collaboration with colleagues from other countries have studied the level of the dangerous compound in forests of European part of Russia. The work was done in the frames of Copernicus and RFBR projects.
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Moscow
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30.08.2002
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EARTH LOOSES OXYGEN
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People who fight against greenhouse effect are afraid to strike a match just to avoid increasing in the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere, which, in turn, can cause a general growth in world temperatures. However, technogenic burning represents not only a grave danger of melting the polar ice caps due to the gradual warming but also leads to a decrease in oxygen content around the planet.
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Moscow, Russia
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30.08.2002
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MICROBES ACT LIKE VANDALS
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Colonies of germs, fungi and bacteria ruin cultural and historical monuments. What exactly microorganisms settle on gravestones and sculptures? Microbiologists from St. Petersburg and Moscow are investigating the issue. They also propose a remedy to overcome the problem.
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Moscow
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30.08.2002
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MICROBES ACT LIKE VANDALS
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Colonies of germs, fungi and bacteria ruin cultural and historical monuments. What exactly microorganisms settle on gravestones and sculptures? Microbiologists from St. Petersburg and Moscow are investigating the issue. They also propose a remedy to overcome the problem.
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Moscow
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23.08.2002
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NEW HYPOTHESIS OF THE TUNGUSKA EXPLOSION
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A geologist from Novosibirsk has set up a new hypothesis of the explosion in Podkamennaya Tunguska, which took place on June 30, 1908. It was not a meteorite that caused such extensive destructions and conflagration, but a fluid jet, which had shot up under high pressure from the interior of the Earth.
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Novosibirsk
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23.08.2002
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YDROGEN BREAKS METAL
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Under load, temperatures and tension developed in friction units are so high that lubricants fail and decompose, and the hydrogen formed in such a way penetrates into metal. As a result, the components become fragile and break faster. Russian scientists have found the way to choose a better lubricant.
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Moscow
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16.08.2002
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UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS DETERIORATE THE OZONE LAYER
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Russian scientists have found correlation between ozone holes above Yakutia and underground nuclear explosions, which took place in its western part in divers years. They think that depletion of the ozone layer is dangerous for the neighbouring territories: Russian Far North, Sea of Okhotsk and even Canada.
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Moscow
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16.08.2002
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VOLES 'BEHIND THE GLASS'
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Genuine rodents' life has not been thoroughly studied, since rodents are very difficult to observe. Russian scientists with assistance of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research are trying to fill the gap in the study.
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Moscow
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16.08.2002
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A BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN THE BUSH
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The people who hardly strive to achieve an aim important to them usually have strong and mobile type of the nervous system. On this principle they differ greatly from the people who prefer more accessible aims. These are the objective conclusions made by psychologists and physiologists and obtained from the experiment.
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Moscow
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16.08.2002
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"GLOBAL WARMING" IN THE BAIKAL AREA
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The global warming within the area of Baikal Lake is progressing at a high rate. Russian scientists state that the air temperature above the lake surface rose by 1.2 degrees Celsius within the past century. The consequences of this change are already visible today.
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Irkutsk
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09.08.2002
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RUSSIAN AND FINNISH BABBLE
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St.Petersubrg scientists have established that three-month-old babies of different nationalities have almost same babble. At the age of six months language peculiarities appear between Russian and Finnish babies.
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St. Petersburg
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09.08.2002
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RADIATION PREFERS PHOSPHORUS
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Radiation affects concentration of chemical elements in liver, kidney, lung and especially in spleen of laboratory mice. According to Russian scientists, phosphorus concentration reduces dramatically in all these organs. Russian Foundation for Basic Research has supported this work.
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Moscow
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09.08.2002
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CRANES SET FREE FROM THE ZOO
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This June in the Primorski Krai (Maritime Territory of Russia) Moscow zoologists set at liberty three Japanese crane females (Grus japonensis) born and raised at the Zoo. Thus, the scientists hope to rescue the rare species from extinction.
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FORK-SHAPED NANOTUBE
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Two years ago Canadian researchers have grown carbon Y-shaped nanotubes. This structure was predicted by a Russian physicist. Recently he and his American colleague have calculated the unique conducting characteristics of the nanotube, which can work both as a diode and a current stabilizer. The work is supported by grants of Russian Scientific Research Program "Fullerens and Atomic Clusters" and National Science Foundation (U.S.A.).
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Moscow
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06.08.2002
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REFORMS AFFECT OUR HEALTH
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Even those reforms, which the time itself makes urgent, may have the reverse side and lots of people may suffer from them. The reforms of the sixties of the 19th century are a special case, for they did not make Russian peasants pull the belt and cut costs to the bone. But the health of the nation is such fragile a thing that any changes may affect it. Even a slight deterioration of the nourishment during the first years after the reform affected the health of the then peasants.
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St.-Petersburg
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06.08.2002
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MAGNETIC STORM IN THE UNDERGROUND
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The investigations of St. Petersburg scientists have shown that the passengers of the underground are affected by strong electromagnetic fields of superlow frequency.
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St. Petersburg
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06.08.2002
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WATER HELPS TO FIND DIAMONDS
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Russian geologists have found fields of kimberlitic pipes in the Volga Hills. Specialists believe that a new diamondiferous area is likely to be situated there, for diamond crystals had been found there even beforehand.
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Cheboksary
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06.08.2002
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DEFECTS ON POWER LINES
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Kazan scientists have designed opto-electronic device for detecting defects and failures on overhead power lines. This device enables them to find corona discharges at the initial stages at the distance up to 150 meters.
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Kazan
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06.08.2002
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HOW TO CATCH HIGGS BOSON
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Russian physicists are now preparing for a decisive experiment to check the standard model on the LHC (the Large Hardon Collider) accelerator at the CERN nuclear physics lab near Geneva. They suppose that it is possible to detect the Higgs boson, which gives particles their mass, at the moment when it disintegrates into two streams of quarks and anti-quarks. Some devices can locate these streams.
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