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The Art of Science – 2013

The Art of Science 2013 Festival is organized for the sixth time by Park–Media with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

19.02.2013
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The best young scientists in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree awarding five young scientists the Presidential Prize in Science and Innovation for 2012.

07.02.2013
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How many years do we really live?

Minus sleep, work, sitting on the Internet and the toilet, etc., the average American has only 9 years out of 78 left for life itself.

04.02.2013
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Stop the transfer of Hospital No. 31

"To the Governor of Poltavchenko and the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Kozhin: Stop the transfer of Hospital No. 31 to the Supreme and Arbitration Court." Collection of signatures under the petition on the website Change.org continues. Sit down - it will take you 1 minute!

22.01.2013
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Wheelchair with voice control

The wheelchair control mechanism responds to combinations of long or short sounds that are universal for any language. He distinguishes between eight commands that allow the wheelchair to move forward and backward, left and right, rise and fall, and stop.

22.01.2013
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Optimistic cancer statistics

According to the report of the American Cancer Society "Cancer Statistics 2013", cancer mortality in the United States decreased by 20% from 1991 to 2009.

21.01.2013
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Heart on the palms of your hands

In a photo that has flown around the world, a patient named Penny holds her old heart in her hands after a successful transplant.

18.01.2013
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Choose: a cure for old age or for rejuvenation?

According to Alexey Turchin, an expert of the Russian transhumanist movement on global risks, a cure for old age will be sold barely, and a means for rejuvenation will cause a violent stir.

15.01.2013
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Old people for export

"In order to save money," 400,000 pensioners have already been transferred from Germany, the most prosperous EU country, to nursing homes in less affluent countries, and every year there are more of them by 5%.

10.01.2013
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A comedian will help to study prostate cancer

To draw public attention to the problem of insufficient funding for prostate cancer research, the charity Prostate Cancer UK is launching a campaign, the face of which will be the English comic actor Bill Bailey.

09.01.2013
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Informatized healthcare in Russia

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation summed up the results of the implementation of measures for the informatization of healthcare in 2012.

28.12.2012
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Healthcare-2020

Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 2511-p of December 24, 2012 approved the "State Program for the Development of Healthcare of the Russian Federation".

26.12.2012
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Humanity is at a crossroads

The next 50-60 years of our history will provide humanity with two opportunities – either an extraordinary flourishing, which has never happened before, or a gradual decline.

24.12.2012
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Happiness is not in money

The countries where the happiest people in the world live are named. The most optimistic are residents of seven Latin American countries, in which the poverty level is simply off the scale

21.12.2012
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Science in Russia: the system needs to be changed!

In Russia, science exists separately, education exists separately, academic mobility is not developed, and reagents for experiments with the tender system have a chance to get only in 2-3 months. Is such a system competitive?

19.12.2012
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Science in Russia: list of resuscitation measures

Measures for the revival of Russian science (for the most part – impossible): They are listed in a 120-sheet list compiled by the Russian Association for the Promotion of Science.

11.12.2012