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One can say that we are in control of ourselves without a doubt. Thousands of years of evolution have never corrected what nature intended. Our behavior is largely dependent on a little molecule called “dopamine” 

Sergey Ivanov on the development of modern physics and the main research directions of Ioffe Institute

Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian theoretical physicist, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, Nobel laureate, was born on August 12, 1887

Periods of abnormally hot weather will become longer and more frequent, a famous climatologist believes

The International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS 2021 took place on July 20-25, 2021. How did this tradition come about, and what is the role of science in the aerospace exhibition?

On August 10, 1675, the foundation stone of the Greenwich Observatory was laid

In 1994, the UN General Assembly established a new commemorative date to celebrate the diversity of the world's indigenous cultures

Why is it wrong to talk about a new strain of coronavirus? How is the Delta variant different from all the others and why is it more dangerous? Do vaccines help against it? What do we need to do to avoid getting sick?

On August 7, 1944, the first American programmable computer, Mark I, was launched

Understanding the process of human aging and the search for possible ways of achieving longevity is an eternal and controversial topic that still captures the attention of a wide range of specialists

You don’t necessarily have to run to the nearest newspaper stand to get the latest news from all over the world. But it wasn’t always like this. Newspapers were a mass source of news for a long time. Now they are increasingly niche players, and the latest issue of a newspaper may soon become a work of art, similar to a stage performance

When should we expect the new edible vaccine? What are the advantages of the new vaccine? Alexander Suvorov, a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the idea author, answers these questions

On that day in 1914, the first electric traffic lightdesigned by James Hoge was put into place on the corner of Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland

How did the Moon come into being? Has this issue been finally settled? How much water is there the solar system? Could life evolve in extraterrestrial oceans? What a geologist has to do with space?

On August 4, 2007, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral using a Delta 2 rocket

Microbiome lab employees create formulations based on microorganisms specific to a particular person

Greater Altai is a unique historical, cultural, natural and geographical territory having high scientific potential for world research

Is it possible to create pocket analyzers of food and medicine quality? So that you could go to the store or the market, apply the device to it and see if you should buy it or not. Yes, it is possible!

There are three scientists whose names are associated with the discovery of oxygen: Priestley, Lavoisier, and Scheele. How did the scientists discover something that cannot be seen, felt, or touched?

Biologists from the Volgograd-based Federal Scientific Center for Agroecology of the Russian Academy of Sciences are carrying out molecular genetic research and development of effective laboratory-scale methods for clonal micropropagation of valuable plant genotypes