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Russian scientists say that successful recovery from AIDS, about which German scientists recently reported, requires years of testing. Even if the patient in fact got rid of AIDS, 10-15 years would pass before the technology would be introduced into clinical practice.
Russian scientists developed a unique technology for growing profiled sapphire crystals. Profiled crystal has predetermined properties – size and shape, for instance. Such crystals have great value for medicine and oncology, in particular, since sapphire capillaries and light guides will make laser therapy and diagnostics less traumatic and painful than in case of quartz and polymer light guides.
Scientists are going to explore Antarctica’s famous mystery – the Gamburtsev Mountain Range. Researchers believe this journey to be the last great expedition on our planet.
Russia, Europe and the United States are getting ready for sending their spaceships to Jupiter in next 10-12 years.
Russia plans to start the project on establishing the network of tiny research stations on Mars in 2014. Scientists want to send 15 stations, weighing about 20 kilograms each, to the Red planet.
The draft design of these small automatic researchers, worked out in cooperation of Russian and Finnish scientists, already exists. Funding of the space programme is scheduled for 2014.
Russian scientists developed a technique, which allows studying the way hurricanes move and finding out the amount of heat and moisture they carry to mid-latitudes and mid-high latitudes from tropics. The technique is based upon data of Earth’s satellite monitoring in the microwave range.
Scientists from Russian region of Kamchatka suggested a new approach to long-range prediction of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Since Kamchatka is one of the regions, where most intensive earthquakes on our planet take place quite often, we should listen to them.
The orthopedic surgeon from Russian city of Togliatti proved that disorders in human skeleton formation corresponded with hair whorls, appearing over a sore place.
Any one, who took a walk in a summer forest and was nearly eaten by thousands of angry and hungry mosquitoes, thought about a wonderful ability of these insects to find “fresh warm lunch”, in other words, objects, which are warmer than their environment. Mosquitoes are genial nature’s creation – unique thermal sensors, which cost evolution millions of years.
LHC’s proton beams are still waiting to collide, but scientific community already talks about building new generation of particle accelerators.
Russian academicians Vladimir Arnold and Ludwig Faddeev received a deserved prize – Shaw Prize 2008, also known as “Asia Nobel Prize”. The prize went to outstanding Russian mathematicians “for their widespread and influential contributions to Mathematical Physics”.
A think-tank of Russian physicists currently develops production conditions for a new composite material with diamond matrix and prepares to investigate its properties. Said material is a result of baking of nanodiamonds with cobalt under conditions of high pressure and high temperature.
Russian engineers from Belgorod have invented new type of chairs, allowing reducing spinal strain significantly, thus avoiding spine’s deformations, which often occur, when one leads a sedentary life.
Archeologists from St. Petersburg unearthed a disc, covered with mysterious symbols, which dates back to the Bronze age.
Sandstone disc was discovered near the town of Tuapse (Krasnodar territory) during diggings of a dolmen, covered with 3-meter thick soil layer. The dolmen’s treasures were unbothered for 4 thousand years.
Northern waters swiftly lose ice, and now anyone can travel through the North Pole by water, press service of Greenpeace-Russia reports.
Scientists predict that in five years Arctic icy cap would disappear. Satellite images, made several days ago, show a through channel in the arctic ice, piercing the most northern point of our planet.
