Did you know weatherfish larvae grow temporary “external gills”? A recent study shows thyroid hormones and fats work together to fuel this transformation - highlighting how hormones drive early development in fish.
Scientists will share personal stories of their scientific research and professional challenges with schoolchildren and their parents through lectures, master classes, and interactive sessions.
The results demonstrate large-scale disturbance of forest stands and a fundamental rearrangement of the structure and functional composition of forest communities under the influence of climate change.
The exhibition featured booths from 806 manufacturers from 27 countries. The exhibition was attended by over 23,000 visitors from 65 countries and 87 regions of Russia.
In a world where it seems everything has already been discovered and studied, a true living relic lurks in the harsh deserts of Central Asia: the planet's last wild Bactrian camel.
Unusually warm December weather in Moscow changed the rhythm of life for Moscow's beavers. They had more time to prepare for winter and successfully complete their fattening period.
Forest fragmentation - the division of continuous forest tracts into separate, isolated areas - poses a serious threat to biodiversity and ecosystem functions.
The study was conducted on two adjacent sites: a former pasture that retained the features of a natural meadow, and an abandoned cropland where vegetation rapidly transitioned to a young forest.
Genetic analysis demonstrated that the discovered population was not the product of an accidental introduction, but rather represents an original genetic lineage.
Kristina Ordzhonikidze, one of the authors of the experiment and a geneticist at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, spoke about the problem.
A new study conducted in the forests of the Tver region has shown that, under different forest management patterns, the overall abundance of soil invertebrates can remain unchanged.
On June 29, 2026, at 14:00, an interlaboratory colloquium will be held in the Large Conference Hall to review Denis Vasilievich Kazakov's dissertation, "Phylogeography and seasonal biology of bats in Siberia and the Far East," submitted for the degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences in the specialty 1.5.12. Zoology.
From June 23 to June 26, fire alarm and notification systems will be tested at the IEE RAS buildings located at 33 Leninsky Prospekt and 34 Vavilova Street.
Pre-defense of T.N. Karmanova's PhD thesis on the topic "Genetic characteristics of rodents in urban communities on the example of the striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius, Pallas 1774) and the common hamster (Cricetus cricetus, Linnaeus 1758)" (Supervisor: A.V. Surov, PhD).
All are invited!
We invite you to participate in the 17th Congress of the Russian Entomological Society, which will be held August 22–27, 2027, at Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University in Kazan.
To raise awareness among employees of organizations subordinate to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation about the possibility of exercising their housing rights by joining a housing cooperative, the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia is sending a presentation of the Proton Housing Cooperative, located in Troitsk, Moscow.
For those looking to send their children on summer vacation, the Moscow Federation of Trade Unions offers a network of residential summer camps. For more information, please use the contact information provided in the attached file.