CONTENT of ISSUE 5 - 2000
- Slezinger I.I.
Remembering the Katyusha
- The legendary Katyusha rocket guns, as well as all
mortars of that time, had a low accuracy of shooting. In 1943,
scientists found an ingenious way to eliminate this shortcoming at very
low cost. Once updated, Katyushas became a model of multibarrel
artillery guns.
- Stunzhas P.A. and Sapozhnikov F.V.
Those Amazing Diatoms
- Contrary to traditional wisdom, planktonic colonial
centric diatoms are capable of active and significant vertical
migration.
- Vavilin V.A.
Self-oscillations in Liquid-Phase Chemical
Systems
- The discovery of self-oscillations т homogeneous
media was undoubtedly a matter of luck: in this system, oscillations
exist within a too narrow domain and monotonic behavior is much more
likely.
- Ignatyev S.M. and Zuev G.V.
A Newcomer in the Black Sea
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Response
Kolodeznikov K.E. and Ivensen G.V.
Discovery of the
Khonguruu Deposit
Dubovsky P.B.
Triangle of Coagulation Models and Gel
Transition in Disperse Systems
In contrast to living organisms, the population of
particles in disperse systems is usually not mutiplied but decreases
owing to particle coagulation. Despite the vast diversity of such
systems, their evolution can be described by only three interrelated
models.
Lectures
Gomazkov O.A.
Endothelium: An "Endocrene Tree"
Vascular medicine owes its origin to the
accumulation of knowledge about the endothetium, a powerful endocrene
organ, which still astonsihes scientists by its complexity.
Lein A.Yu., Moskalev L.I., Bogdanov Yu.A. and Sagalevich
A.M.
Oceanic Hydrothermal System and Life
In the world's oceans, there are almost 100 known
active hydrothermal fields with unique biological communities, which
depend entirely on geothermal rather than solar energy.
Mashchenko E.N.
Island Species of Dwarf Mammoth
Notes and Observations
Bulavintsev V.I.
The Viper
Shcherbatykh Yu.V. and Nozdrachev A.D.
Physiology and
Psychology of Fear
There are no people who do not fear, but the subject
and intensity of this emotion vary from person to person. As for social
fears, they vary with society and paint its collective portrait.
Nikolsky I.D.
A Collection of Recorded Sounds of Nature
Commentary
"Many a True Word Is Spoken in Jest"
Levit G.S.
A Critical View of V.I. Vernadsky's Noosphere
Book reviews
Ranyuk Yu.N.
Houtermans's Mystery
New books
Encounters with the forgotten
Bogdanov V.V.
"Inhospitable
Land"
(Brem's Travel through West Siberia) |
Science news
- NB Argo: A New
Oceanographic Program
- Cosmic Ultraviolet Observatory
- The Mystery of the Black Cloud Surdin V.G.
- Atmosphere and Aurorae on Io
- The Ozone Hole Setting a Record
- BESSY Will Move to a New Apartment
- Coral Fish Larvae Remain in the Same Place Gilyarov A.M.
- Mutant Mice Live Longer
- Another Herpetofaunal Find in Europe Semenov D.V.
- White Whales in Ice Traps
- Radioactive Waste to Be Stored in New Mexico
- Diamond Deposits in Ukraine? Laukhin S.A.
- A Pattern in the Arrangement of Volcanic Islands
- Kolima Continues to Erupt
- The Mexican Warning System
- Natural Disasters in 1998
- Look a Fossil Horse in the Mouth
- In brief
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