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The use of light for traditional illumination takes a back seat. Light becomes an essential element of technologies instead. Grigory Sokolovsky dwells upon how it is related to semiconductor lasers.

Forests cover almost a half of Russia’s territory. What functions, apart from economic ones, do forests have? We have learned it from Director of the Center for Ecological Problems and Forest Productivity of RAS, RAS correspondent member N. V. Lukina

July 28 – World Hepatitis Day

It stopped being just a set of glasses in a casing a long time ago: To examine galaxies, stars and nebulae, telescopes are now sent into space and immersed deep underwater. What technologies today help us see far away

100 years ago, the Canadian physician and physiologist Frederick Banting reported on his isolation of insulin

We talk about Antarctica – a storeroom of biological resources, a unique continent that belongs to no country de jure

So far, there is no generally accepted physical theory explaining the nature of ball lightning in the world

The Portal’s updated version has become even better and more convenient for our readers

On July 26, archaeologists celebrate Birch Bark Day 

Can our computers be made more powerful, and what solutions can be used for it? When will quantum computer be issued? Academician Aleksandr Gorbatsevich reflects upon quantum system modeling

On July 25^th, 1978, the world’s first human conceived by artificial fertilization was born in England

Scientists at Vologda Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (VolRC RAS) are looking for approaches that would enable objective assessment of technological entrepreneurship in Russia, in order to develop effective measures to support it on the labor market and to set priorities

Over 100 km away from Moscow, north Moscow Region: Dubna. The town hosting the major nuclear physics research center in Russia was founded on July 24, 1956 

IEM Director and RAS Professor Aleksandr Dmitriev spoke of the history of the oldest institute and of its main activity areas today 

Next-generation 6g mobile communications will cost the world 100 billion dollars, and construction of new networks will begin in 10 years. This was disclosed in Skoltech. Scientific Russia recounts the history of mobile communications

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing people to leave big cities

The methods of regenerative medicine are actively used for treating diseases and injuries, especially when the chances for recovery and even survival are low, while other therapy methods have exhausted themselves

How did the life began on the Earth? Was it born on the planet or brought from the space? Why did it develop in the way it did? These are the topics of our conversation with RAS academician Sergey Vladimirovich Rozhnov

100 years ago: On July 22, 1921, Soviet physicist Pyotr Kapitsa started working at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge 

On July 21, 1983, the temperature of –87.2°С was registered at Vostok Station in the Antarctic. That earned the station the title of the “pole of cold”