- 18:02 15/05/2012
Nearly half of Russian families break up in the first three years from the beginning of life together, psychologists told RIA Novosti ahead of International Family Day celebrated May 15. The most frequent reasons that stand behind the divorces in Russia are the partners’ lack of social experience and laziness; end of the ‘romantic stage’ of relationships and misunderstandings between spouses.
- 15:14 14/05/2012
Scientists at Emory University in Atlanta plan to use MRI machines to scan dogs brains and find an answer to the question: What do canines think about, Los Angeles Times reported.
- 14:46 25/04/2012
U.S. scientists using ice cream and icy beverages have found the brain's mechanism for self-defense that in future will help to find a medicine for migraine and other headaches, HealthDay website reported, quoting a press release from the American Psychological Society.
- 13:36 24/04/2012
The world population will reach eight billion people in the near future and then will begin to fall, a famous environmentalist and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexei Yablokov, said.
- 18:10 23/04/2012
More than 1.2 million people took part in this spring's first volunteer clean up in Moscow.
- 18:26 18/04/2012
Moscow authorities intend to plant gardens on the roofs of several buildings by the end of summer, the head of the capital’s environmental department, Anton Kulbachevsky, told RIA Novosti.
- 19:44 16/04/2012
Dietitians recommend that Russians avoid fatty meat, bananas, pears and porridges, except those from buckwheat and oatmeal, and eat vegetable dishes three times a day, in order to lose any extra weight they put on over the winter.
- 19:45 10/04/2012
A satellite-monitored radio tag on a gray whale off the coast of Sakhalin Island has resumed sending a signal after two days of silence, the Oregon State University Marine Mammal Institute said in a statement.
- 10:16 10/04/2012
Spring 2012 in Russia is about two weeks behind schedule compared to previous years, said Alexander Minin, a senior academician at the Institute of Global Climate and Ecology.
- 20:31 06/04/2012
Officials in the Moscow transportation department have been ordered to use public transport twice a week and present detailed reports of their trips, the department’s head, Maxim Liksutov, said.
- 17:04 05/04/2012
Russia's Yo-Auto plant, co-owned by billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, has applied for the registration of 12 trademarks with Yo! to the national patent service Rospatent, he also sought to register Yo-da, Yo-Wow, Yo-Phone and Yo-Mobile.
- 15:09 04/04/2012
Speaking to newspaper editors at the Associated Press’ annual luncheon on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama laughed off last week's incident, when his private conversation with Dmitry Medvedev was made public due to a hot microphone.
"It is a pleasure to speak to all of you - and to have a microphone that I can see. Feel free to transmit any of this to Vladimir if you see him," Obama said.
- 17:09 03/04/2012
The chances that Facebook "catches on" with someone - that is, the probability an individual is affected by the "contagion" - does not obey the biological contagion model. In fact, Facebook contagion depends not on the size of an individual's "contact neighborhood" - the number of affected people they come into contact with - but on the number of connected components within that neighborhood, said in an article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- 09:50 03/04/2012
Russia’s strategy in the 1812 war targeted the enemy’s support bases and communication.To implement Russia’s strategic plan in the 1812 war with Napoleon, Russia’s forces were divided into three parts, without taking into account Napoleon’s favorite and frequently used tactics to crush the enemy’s forces piecemeal.
- 18:32 30/03/2012
The specially trained cat will search visitors of the central post office in the capital of Khakassia, Abakan, on April Fool's Day. The joke event is in connection with the frequent robberies of post offices in Russia, a spokesman of the regional Russian Post said.
- 17:43 29/03/2012
The March blossoming of trees came as a surprise for New Yorkers. It was was caused by an unusually mild and snowless winter on the north-eastern coast of the United States. Astronomical spring begins on March 20 and lasts through June 19 in the United States.
- 15:53 28/03/2012
On March 26 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with the U.S. President Barack Obama at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul. Obama was caught on an open mike asking Medvedev for "space" on missile defense. “This is my last election. After my election, I'll have more flexibility.” Medvedev answered him in English: “I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.”
- 19:56 27/03/2012
Facebook, the world’s largest social network, threatened to sue employers who asks for Facebook passwords of job applicant, Reuters reported. Sharing a Facebook password, or asking for someone else's password, violates Facebook's user agreement.
- 17:35 27/03/2012
The U.S. government has reduced funding for NASA projects and is pushing the space agency to cooperate with business. NASA declassified 200 space-related developments last year and will continue declassifying documents this year, Steven Gonzalez of the Advanced Planning Office at Johnson Space Center (JSC), said.
