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SUN FLOODED THE EUROPE
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High solar activity was one of the reasons for this summer floods in Europe. Extremely wet cyclones were formed above the Atlantic and then brought to the Europe and Southern Russia. This is a hypothesis by a physicist Vladimir Pudov from Obninsk.
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Obninsk
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GETTING POWER FROM ENEMY'S SKULL
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Archaeologists have found a confirmation of the legend saying that our ancestors made cups of the skulls of their enemies. In the Komi Republic the archaeologists excavated a grave in the deep forest, dated back to the Iron Age. There they found these unusual utensils.
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Syktyvkar
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25.10.2002
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GENE OF ESCHERICHIA COLI IMPROVES TOBACCO
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Something that at first seems to be insignificant may bring us an outstanding result. The introduction of only one gene of Escherichia coli into the genome of tobacco improves the plant in various senses. The study is conducted by Russian biologists.
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Moscow
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25.10.2002
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FRUCTOSE MAY BE EXTRACTED FROM PLANTS
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Many people have to keep to a diet for various reasons. Any diet implies an exclusion of sugar, but it is so difficult to stay away from the sweets. A very simple method for producing a sugar substitute, fructose, is developed by Russian biologists.
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Voronezh
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25.10.2002
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WARMING UP A SATELLITE
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The source of information: Ph.D. Thesis named "The Analysis of the Connection between the Failure of the Board Equipment at the "Kosmos" Satellites and Geophysical Activity". The thesis was defended at the Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, on 24 September 2002.
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Moscow
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EXTINGUISHERS FOR OIL RESERVOIRS
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How to extinguish fire in a reservoir with oil products or in the luggage department of a flying aircraft? The task is not so simple, for the access to such places is limited. Russian scientists have worked out an automatic fire extinguisher, which puts out the fire and prevents the object from catching fire again for several hours. The main component of the extinguisher is a special powder.
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Sergiev Posad, Moscow Region
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18.10.2002
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FOGGY ROAD
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Fog may cause automobiles to crash. Scientists from Central Aerological Observatory have constructed a unit, which eliminates the fog.
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Moscow
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18.10.2002
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THE SPECIES THAT PROPAGATE SLOWLY, BECOME EXTINCT SOONER
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What is the correct way to distribute resources and funds to preserve rare animal species? What animal deserves more money to be spent on - a tiger or a desman? A Russian ecologist has suggested an unbiased index which will help to distribute reasonably the resources allocated for environment protection. The research has been completed with financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, NWO (the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) and the Alexander Humboldt Fund (Germany).
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Moscow
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11.10.2002
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WHY DO POLAR FOXES DISAPPEAR?
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If some animal species had always been hunted for and then the hunt suddenly ceased, the population would normally grow up. The polar foxes inhabiting Medny (Copper) Island have not been hunted for about forty years, but they are still disappearing. Russian scientists are trying to find the reason for that. Their research has been financed through the Kamchatka Regional Committee for Nature.
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Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
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11.10.2002
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LARVA BIOINDICATOR
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The sea water state directly affects the health of its inhabitants sensitive to water pollutants. The biologists from Ukraine judge about an ecologically unfavourable situation in coastal waters of the Black Sea using fish larvae as an indicator.
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Sevastopol
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11.10.2002
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ELECTRONS DEFEAT ANTHRAX
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Scientists from Irkutsk and Novosibirsk suggested using an industrial electron accelerator as a sterilizer for letters. They have studied how electron beam affects bacteria that are close relatives of anthrax and calculated the necessary power of the electron flow.
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Novosibirsk
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03.10.2002
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GLOBAL WARMING MAKES WATER LIVE
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The water on our planet is constantly in motion. It does not only flow, seep and pour, it also freezes, thaws and condenses, i.e. changes its aggregative state. Most scientists, who deal with the water cycle, do not pay attention to its phase changes. As Siberian scientists believe, water phase changes affect the Earth climate and ecology.
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