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01.06.2009, 09:06

The physicist who revolutionized communication technology

Physicist Zhores Alferov spent almost 60 years of his life working on semiconductors – which won him the Nobel Prize in 2000. Today he heads one of the most innovative labs in Russia researching nanotechnologies.

25.05.2009, 12:28

Nanocure to deadly viruses found?

Leo Rasnetsov, a self-dubbed Russian nanowizard, claims to have used nanotechnology to find cheap solutions to HIV and flu viruses. But many scientists have already written off his potions as pure hocus pocus.

19.05.2009, 10:10 3 comments

Solar energy is our future, says Nobel Prize winner

Mobile phones, CD players, and satellite TV are all technology that most of us use every day. But it wouldn’t have been possible without the inventions of Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Zhores Alferov.

A Russian laboratory worker handles a vial containing the swine flu virus H1N1strain in St. Petersburg  (AFP Photo / Kirill Sirotyuk) 19.09.2009, 09:25

We will win fight against swine flu – Russian scientists

With the swine flu pandemic still claiming lives across the world, the battle to fight it continues. Scientists in St. Petersburg are testing a new vaccine as their latest weapon against the virus.

20.05.2009, 14:27 11 comments

Behind the veil of swine flu

Conversations about the swine flu tend to revolve around who has it, where it has appeared, what the symptoms are, and how to prevent it. But there's little conversation about the risks and havoc of the swine flu online.

28.04.2009, 21:27 2 comments

“We aren’t in the pandemic phase yet with swine flu”

The fact that the virus can travel from human to human doesn’t mean that a pandemic is inevitable, Tatyana Kolpakova from the World Health Organisation’s office in Russia said.

15.10.2010, 15:40 2 comments

World watches Skolkovo

What exactly is the Skolkovo innovation center and why is the world watching it so closely? Anatoly Aleksandrov, one of six co-founders of the center and the rector of Bauman University fills RT in with the details.

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18.10.2010, 20:36 4 comments

Russian police probe Wikipedia for extremism

Moscow police have received a complaint saying that the international collaborative project Wikipedia contains extremist materials, and are currently working to check it.

Shot taken from a helicopter in the Krasnodar region, June 2009 (Photo from kosmopoisk.org) 29.06.2009, 10:52 29 comments

Mysterious circles shock locals in Russia’s South

Mysterious pictograms consisting of several circles have appeared on a wheat field in Southern Russia’s Krasnodar region. Was it someone’s joke or did aliens visit us?

One of rifles made by Tsar Cannon company 02.09.2009, 10:25 21 comments

Russian sniper rifles take aim at American market

“Tsar Cannon”, the creators of cutting-edge sniper rifles, has the only factory in Russia that custom makes rifles for the secret service to protect both Russia’s president and prime minister.

The father of the modern TV was dispirited by his creation

Published: 04 June, 2009, 09:43


Dr. Vladimir Zworykin with an 1946 iconoscope tube

The inventor of early television Vladimir Zworykin believed in the humanitarian potential of TV and was disappointed by the millions interested in soap operas.

 
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joseph walker June 04, 2009, 21:22 quote
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Yep agree,said this some time ago,broadcasting is full of garbage ,it is an excellent brainwashing machine,fill the masses heads with rubbish.speaking from the english perspective naturally, american broadcast are no different .

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