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On June 1, on the TV channel Rossiya 24, Aleksandr Sergeev, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, spoke of the importance of preserving cooperation between Russia and the US despite complications between Moscow and Washington

Initiated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Milk Day was first celebrated in 2001

Russians are warned against gathering small clusters of white flowers in forests. May lily is both a dangerous flower and a Red Book specie. This material is about the plants growing in forests and fields that should be avoided.

Scientists from Volgograd-based Federal Agroecology Research Center (FARC) of RAS study promising untraditional ameliorant fertilizers based on anthropogenic (sewage sludge) and natural (for instance, glauconite) components 

On the last Sunday of May, Russian chemists celebrate their professional holiday. 

Specialists of the Marine Hydro-Physical Institute perform research devoted to microplastic contamination of sea environment on Russia’s territory

On May 29, 1919, Arthur Eddington recorded a total solar eclipse on camera

An iceberg chipped off the coast of Antarctic. Its area is 4,320 km2 (1.5 areas of Moscow, 3 territories of St. Petersburg, or 5 territories of Volgograd). The story of icebergs.

On May 29, 1879 Milutin Milankovic, Serbian mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, engineer, and writer, was born. 

Scientific Russia visited Protvino to see U-70 accelerator complex

At the international academic symposium, Russian and foreign scientists discussed COVID-19 pandemic, subsequent risks, and the process of solving emerging problems. 

The 21st century has every chance of going down in history for breakthrough discoveries in human brain research. Konstantin Vladimirovich Anokhin, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, believes that this would require a basic theory of the brain

If there is dark matter, what particles does it consist of? The answer has been pursued for several decades in Troitsk at the Institute for Nuclear Research, conducting a unique Troitsk nu-mass experiment.

All-Russia Library Day is celebrated on May 27 

M. A. Lipkin, Director of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, speculates how the big history is swayed today, whether we need books, and why science is getting more important in society.

Today, on May 26, the Third International Moscow Academic Economic Forum (MAEF) started its work. 

On May 26, the Third International Moscow Academic Economic Forum started its work. The topic of MAEF 2021 is Global Transformation of Modern Society and National Development Goals of Russia.

The Day of Snow Leopard has been marked on May 26 in Altay for 11 years already, since 2010. It is a regional environmental date which is marked separately from International Snow Leopard Day on October 23

There are only about 100,000 of them. Baikal seals are killed by both legal hunters and poachers due to their precious fur. The fur of young seals – babies with white skin – is especially valued among hunters. May 25 is marked as Day of Baby Seal

No doubt, everyone will remember 2020. It is not just the pandemic having attacked the world. 5G communication, x-ray map of the Universe, and omnipresent digitization. However, is this technology kaleidoscope as clear as it seems?