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Linguistics. insidious words

Duration: 0:35:08

Each generation has its own actual vocabulary, and a social group may have its own vocabulary . Do we need to understand all the words that are found in literature? And what words can be called "insidious"? We are talking about this in the program "The Nature of Things" with a linguist, candidate of philological sciences .


The solar system in a local gas bubble. What do scientists know?

Duration: 0:35:00

In good weather we can see stars in the sky and it seems that there is nothing between them but emptiness . Scientists suggest individual star systems may be in the so-called "local bubbles" This is not the most important "trick" of our Universe .


Genetic engineering of plants. Why is GMO not a biological term?

Duration: 0:36:06

Sofya Gerasimova, a senior researcher at the Kurchatov Genomic Center and Head of the Cultivated Plant Biotechnology Sector of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is visiting the Nature of Things program today . The reasons for the active development of scientific methods that affect the yield and other properties of plants lie