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SURVIVAL IN DIRTY WATER
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In a lake polluted by toxic substances, fish can either die or adapt. The population of whitefish (freshwater fish of the salmon family) in a subarctic lake having a beautiful name Imandra is studied by Russian scientists. As a result of water pollution, the fish changes its life strategy: grows slower, dies sooner, but begins to spawn earlier.
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Apatity, Murmansk Region
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LOOK UNDER THE FEET
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Soils of the Central Chernozem Region are exhausted within the last hundred years of use. Yet, concerning soil fertility in Moscow environs, something is still to lose.
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Moscow
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27.11.2002
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COLLAPSE AREA CAN BE PREDETERMINED
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Russian scientists are developing a device which will be able to determine if the mine is on the point of descent, how long an underground depositary can be utilized and when a technological calamity is to be expected. Russian scientists have vanquished in the innovation projects contest of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
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27.11.2002
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DO NOT LET CHILDREN MAKE MISTAKES
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"Nowadays primary school is somewhat like university" - the parent's complaint seems to be true. Little children can't bear such loading. Special technologies of education, which protect health and maintain a wish to study, are now required.
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27.11.2002
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VOLES BEHIND THE GLASS - 2
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Marriages between close relatives are prohibited not only among people, but among animals too. Even the reproduction of voles is controlled by social factors.
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St. Petersburg
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27.11.2002
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METER-LONG MEDUSAS AND MOLLUSCS SEIZE THE OCEAN
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Studies of Russian palaeontologists have thrown the light on the earliest stage of the evolution of multicellular animals. A great diversity of fauna appeared in the Cambrian Period, about 540 million years ago, is characterised on the basis of findings from the White Sea area, America, and the South Australia. Weird animals unknown before are reconstructed from their imprints preserved in ancient rocks.
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Moscow
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27.11.2002
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ONE CENTER IS GOOD - TWO CENTERS ARE BETTER
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Professor Sergey A. Shulmin suggested a concept of "B-factor". The concept involves concentration on studying the second significant element of a system. Such an approach may be applied to the analysis of economic, political, social and geographical phenomena.
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Novomoskovsk
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15.11.2002
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BLACK RAVENS: FLOATING BETWEEN THE WORLDS
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Ravens are probably the most mysterious birds ever living in Eurasia. There is something mystic about its black silhouette and the scream as from the other world. And it does not seem strange at all that the bird has become the integral part of the mythological philosophy of ancient men.
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15.11.2002
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PRIMATES: MAKING A CHOICE
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St. Petersburg scientists estimated the intellect of monkeys and chimpanzee. It turned to be rather high, at least, the animals could make the right choice between different objects.
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St.-Petersburg
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15.11.2002
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GREEN MALES
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Memories of summer heat, sea, mountains, and lizards on rocks warm us up in cold autumn days. To make sense from the amusement of watching lizards, one can give it a purpose. Russian scientists try to understand why lizard males have different colours. Their study is supported by the Russian foundation for Basic Research.
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St. Petersburg
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15.11.2002
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MICE FROM THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
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The reproduction of mammals implies the participation on of a male and a female. Parthenogenesis is prevented by the gene imprinting. Methods for decreasing the fatality of parthenogenetic embryos are offered by Russian researchers.
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Moscow
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10.11.2002
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DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE AS A MODEL OF EDUCATION
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Tomsk researchers have suggested a new model, which describes school education as a process of knowledge diffusion between the teacher and students.
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10.11.2002
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PLANTS CONTROL THE MOLTING OF INSECTS
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Significant concentrations of ecdysteroids, substances that rouse the energy level of the body, are found by researchers from Syktyvkar in plants known in traditional medicine saw-wort and catchfly. A possibility of a serial production of ecdysteroid-based food supplements increasing body tone and wound-healing preparations is considered.
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10.11.2002
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A TRY TO REVISE THE AGE OF THE TURIN SHROUD FAILED
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Some time ago Russian criminalists tried to revise the results of the radiocarbon dating for the Turin Shroud, which was made by three laboratories in the USA, Great Britain and Switzerland. But their calculations were incorrect.
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LADOGA LAKE LOOSES WATER
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St. Petersburg researchers predict that Ladoga Lake will shallow by half a meter, if annual air temperature in the North-West Russia region rises by 0.3 C. The research was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
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St. Petersburg
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10.11.2002
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DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE AS A MODEL OF EDUCATION
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Tomsk researchers have suggested a new model, which describes school education as a process of knowledge diffusion between the teacher and students.
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10.11.2002
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PLANTS CONTROL THE MOLTING OF INSECTS
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Significant concentrations of ecdysteroids, substances that rouse the energy level of the body, are found by researchers from Syktyvkar in plants known in traditional medicine saw-wort and catchfly. A possibility of a serial production of ecdysteroid-based food supplements increasing body tone and wound-healing preparations is considered.
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10.11.2002
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A TRY TO REVISE THE AGE OF THE TURIN SHROUD FAILED
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Some time ago Russian criminalists tried to revise the results of the radiocarbon dating for the Turin Shroud, which was made by three laboratories in the USA, Great Britain and Switzerland. But their calculations were incorrect.
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10.11.2002
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PLANTS CONTROL THE MOLTING OF INSECTS
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Significant concentrations of ecdysteroids, substances that rouse the energy level of the body, are found by researchers from Syktyvkar in plants known in traditional medicine saw-wort and catchfly. A possibility of a serial production of ecdysteroid-based food supplements increasing body tone and wound-healing preparations is considered.
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10.11.2002
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A TRY TO REVISE THE AGE OF THE TURIN SHROUD FAILED
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Some time ago Russian criminalists tried to revise the results of the radiocarbon dating for the Turin Shroud, which was made by three laboratories in the USA, Great Britain and Switzerland. But their calculations were incorrect.
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10.11.2002
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LADOGA LAKE LOOSES WATER
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St. Petersburg researchers predict that Ladoga Lake will shallow by half a meter, if annual air temperature in the North-West Russia region rises by 0.3 C. The research was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
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St. Petersburg
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05.11.2002
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FROM BLACK CAVIAR TO STURGEON
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For the last three decades, Russian ichthyologists carefully study the behaviour of Volga-Caspian populations of fish of the family Acipenseridae: beluga or white sturgeon, starred sturgeon, common sturgeon, and river sterlet. The migration of mature fish to the Volga River for spawning and the journey of young fish to the Caspian Sea are observed. The Volga River is the breeding ground for the most of Caspian sturgeons.
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Astrakhan
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05.11.2002
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CHLOROPLASTS PROTECT PLANTS
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Chloroplasts serve not only for the energy accumulation and the nutrient synthesis, but also for the blockage of an infection. This study is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
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Moscow
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05.11.2002
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CENTENNIAL OF RUSSIAN DINOSAURS
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This year, Russian palaeontologists celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first finding of dinosaur bones in the Amur River valley. By the present time, many other fossils are collected from that area, in particular, an entire skeleton of a giant dinosaur and separate bones of ancient reptiles. The excavation project is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
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