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64 squares, 32 pieces, 2 players: July 20 – International Chess Day

What are those things glowing in the darkness of the Black Sea? Not electric bulbs for sure. They are plankton – a barely visible but vital part of the Black Sea. Make yourselves comfortable – we are going to look at it through a science microscope

On the present and future of nanotechnologies in medicine and history of High Purity Biologicals Institute – RAS academician Mikhail Dubina 

July 19, 1930 is the date of the opening ceremony for the Tietta Khibiny Mountain Station of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR — a research center on Kola Peninsula

Intense cold plastic deformation is a method that is used to create new materials that the manufacturing sector and metallurgy need so much (e.g., heat-resistant reactor steel)

July 18th is the birthday of Robert Hooke – an English scientist, naturalist and inventor 

What are the qualities an ethnographer needs? Specifics of the profession are discussed in our article 

Large amounts of organic combustible material – oil and gas – require high-quality and reliable storage and equipment operation. Scientists from the Industrial University of Tyumen are demonstrating original methods of achieving that 

July 16, 1902, is the birthday of Aleksandr Luria, a Soviet psychologist, the founder of neuropsychology

Sleep is free medicine. When we are asleep, our bodies and brains rest, our body cells regenerate, and melatonin – the sleep hormone – is released

On July 15, 2021, an online meeting of the leaders of academies of sciences of G20 countries “Science 20” (S20) was held on the platform of the Accademia dei Lincei

On July 15, 1799, a French officer involved in enhancing defenses of a fort noticed a black stone with an inscription in three languages. The artifact – the Rosetta Stone – would become responsible for the emergence of Egyptology

RAS correspondent member Aleksey Zhukov dwells upon achievements in creation of nanostructures at the cutting-edge laboratory of quantum optoelectronics in Saint Petersburg

Around 60% of the staff of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Grigory Trubnikov, the Director of the Institute, spoke of how they managed to do that 

On July 14, 1867, Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time

Spektr-RG is a big project under the Federal Space Program of Russia

When late night sets in, countless flickering beacons appear in the dark sky. Those stars were “looking” at Earth top-down millions of years ago. Today we will describe how these cosmic “fireflies” are born

Exploring the Sun in different ranges, determining the composition of the solar wind, exploring interplanetary space, photographs of Mars and its moons: 33 years ago, Phobos 2 station was launched 

On July 11^th, everyone with a sweet tooth celebrates the World Chocolate Day

In the Year of Science and Technology, the development of robotics is especially important for the modern society. Everything that humanity now enjoys is related to new technologies.