Prospects of using stem cells in medicine M. A. Pal’tsevV. N. SmirnovA. A. Ivanov Science and Society Pages: 1 - 4
Nanotechnology based on nucleic acids Yu. M. EvdokimovM. A. ZakharovS. G. Skuridin Organization of Research Pages: 5 - 11
Soil as the key source of carbonic acid and reservoir of organic carbon on the territory of Russia G. A. ZavarzinV. N. Kudeyarov On the Rostrum of the RAS Presidium Pages: 12 - 26
The role of science and education in the formation of biological competence L. V. PivovarovaT. G. KorzhenevskayaM. V. Gusev Problems of Ecology Pages: 27 - 33
The technology of establishing nature-conserving geoinformation systems V. V. LebedevE. I. KupriyanovaV. A. Kharitonov Problems of Ecology Pages: 34 - 43
The professional community of economists: Western and Russian models E. V. Balatskii Point of View Pages: 54 - 59
Mathematical technologies on the eve of a nanorevolution: The origin of quantum mathematics M. V. Karasev Point of View Pages: 60 - 63
Two hundred years of the Moscow Society of Naturalists E. N. Mirzoyan History of Academic Institutions Pages: 85 - 88
“No to terrorism!” say scientists from Russia and the United States N. A. PlatéG. Ya. KovalenkoYu. K. Shiyan Science News Pages: 92 - 96
The evolution of the biosphere: The view of geologists and biologists G. A. Zavarzin Science News Pages: 97 - 99
Nikolai Inozemtsev: A personality and the times, remembrances (Economist, Moscow, 2004), 429 pp. [in Russian] A. G. Arbatov In the Book World Pages: 100 - 102
20th-Century literatures of the peoples of Russia: A dictionary (Nauka, Moscow, 2005), 365 pp. [in Russian] I. A. Shapovalova In the Book World Pages: 103 - 104
A. I. Grigor’ev and N. A. Grigor’yan, The great son of Russia: On the 155th anniversary of the birth of I. P. Pavlov and the centenary of his Nobel Prize award (Nauka, Moscow, 2004), 271 pp. [in Russian] E. N. Mirzoyan In the Book World Pages: 105 - 106