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What crops are most suitable for growing in zero gravity? What difficulties did scientists face when trying to grow vegetables and greens in space? What does the innovative Russian space greenhouse look like?

Scientists of the Joint Institute for High Temperatures (JIHT) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have conducted a unique experiment that allows studying the emergence of quantum effects in our macrocosm in detail

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

Junior researcher of the Astro Space Center (ASC) of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS) Vyacheslav Avdeev describes the most unusual extraterrestrial oceans and the search for water on the closest planets and their moons

What prevents Russians from eating right? Can a diet be both healthy and affordable? How does a relatively new scientific area, anthroponutritiology, help to build customized diet plans?

What are the developments in smart agriculture today? RAS Corresponding Member Vyacheslav Yakushev explains in his interview

Vladimir Dmitrievich Kuznetsov, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Director of the N. V. Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN) speaks about the influence of the Sun on the Earth and about the work of the IZMIRAN Space Weather Prediction Center.

What do we know about antimatter today? We asked this question to Alexander Dolgov, Dr. Sc. (Phys.-Math.), Professor, Director of the Novosibirsk State University Interdisciplinary Center of Elementary Particle Physics and Astrophysics

Academician Gennady Sukhikh, Director of the National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology Named After Academician Vladimir Kulakov, on genetic research, pandemic challenges, and the immensity of evolution

How secure is the World Wide Web? What are ways to develop information hygiene? What can the loss of control over information technology result in?

Academician Valery Anatolyevich Rubakov, Chief Researcher at the Institute for Nuclear Research (INR) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and Head of the Neutrino and Particle Astrophysics project, describes the most sensational project results in his interview with Scientific Russia

In his interview with Scientific Russia, the cardiologist speaks about the prevention of these diseases and a new MSU and foreign scientists’ joint development, that is, a unique artificial valve for closed-chest heart valve replacement.

What is modern Africa like? How true are the popular stereotypes about this continent? What stage are Russia-Africa relations currently at?

What is the state of the languages of the peoples of the North today? When did a writing system appear in the Nenets language? What actions do scholars take to preserve these languages?

The amount of vapor in the atmosphere has increased by 4% since the mid-1990s. How significant is the impact of water vapor on climate change?

In over two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare professionals have determined precisely that the novel coronavirus infection negatively affects patients with cardiovascular diseases

Why does the immune system attack the body? How does stress cause autoimmune reactions? Ekaterina Anatolyevna Troshina, RAS Corresponding Member, answers these questions

In her interview, Candidate of Geographical Sciences and Head of the Northern Water Problems Institute at the Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (KarRC RAS) Larisa Evgenyevna Nazarova discusses climate change in the White Sea region and her research on Northern waters. 

What role do viruses play in our evolution, how do they spread, and what interesting features do they have? Aleksey Dmitrievich Zaberezhny, RAS Corresponding Member, Head of the All-Russia Scientific Research and Technological Institute of Biological Industry (VNITIBP), answers these questions.

Over the past decade, young researchers, students, and postgrads from all over Russia have been undertaking expeditions to the northern seas onboard research vessels Professor Molchanov and Mikhail Somov

How did psycholinguistics arise? What is known today about the connection between consciousness and speech? How do psycholinguists describe language?

What do astronauts eat? How have approaches to space diets and their production technologies changed? What kind of research is conducted to provide astronauts with food during long-term missions?

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

Alexander Mikhailovich answered journalists’ questions, including uncomfortable ones