How to Make Neurons Fall Silent? Interview about Traumatic Memory with Academician Konstantin Anokhin

How is traumatic memory formed, can negative experience affect the offspring? What unusual things can our brain do, and do we have a chance to recover from psychological traumas on our own? Academician and director of the Institute for Advanced Brain Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Konstantin Anokhin answers these and other questions.

The atomic clock that the modern satellite navigation can hardly manage without has a lot of non-obvious applications: from a search for dark matter and a drift of fundamental constants to Earth’s gravitational potential mapping. Head of the Complex Quantum Systems Optics Laboratory of P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Ksenia Khabarova has told the Scientific Russia portal about the purpose of the atomic clock and its working principle

Observations and calculations show that the Milky Way will collide with its nearest neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy, in about four billion years. What happens to galaxies during a merger? What effect will the future merger have on the Solar System?

Scientific Russia has visited one of the largest enterprises in the Russian agrobiological industry

On April 12, the world celebrates the date of the first human flight into space. Throughout this month we are going to talk about space discoveries, theories, and everyday aspects of traveling across the Universe

Has the Gzhel pottery always been blue and white? Where did the recognizable Gzhel rose come from? How did a Voronezh artist revive the Russian traditional industry?