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The Jet propulsion laboratory NASA presented the confirmation of the next storm on Saturn.

Current year was marked above all great discoveries in fundamental physics. "Of course, the Higgs boson. I think it is fair to call this discovery main", - said the member of the CMS collaboration of the Large hadron Collider Andrey Krakhotin, answering the question about the most important scientific discovery of 2012.

Roskosmos signed with the Institute of space research RAS (IKI ran) agreement on the scientific instruments on the project "Eczemas". This was reported by the news Agency RIA Novosti source in the space industry.

Curiosity Rover, which is located in the place called Yellowknife Bay, is searching rocky deposits, suitable for conducting first drilling operations, during which will be carried out the first analysis of what is under the surface of the red Planet.

Researchers from Penn State University and Rutgers suggested that a series of rapid environmental change in East Africa, which occurred about 2 million years ago, is the cause of severe human evolution.

Man of the XXI century did not impress the live shots from orbit or from Antarctica. But to shoot Mars online, it seems that few people had hoped. Thanks to the European space Agency this was fixed.

An international group of scientists from Russia and America have discovered bacteria of the genus Carnobacterium on the banks of the Kolyma river in the permafrost. These microorganisms can grow and multiply at a temperature, oxygen concentration and pressure, which correspond to the atmosphere of Mars. Spiegel Online sends a summary of the work, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The history of relations between citizen and science interesting and monotonous to the same extent as the history of relations Romeo and Juliette: all the way is the same, but each time in a new way. The year is almost gone new stories are not written, but the old stories got an exciting continuation of what we are here and will pobraniem a slightly sweet Christmas mash.

The consequence of a collision of a planet with a large meteorite and the asteroid can be a global catastrophe. It is therefore important to learn how to predict such events. Recently William Brockman and his colleagues at the University of Puerto Rico built a new mathematical model, which evaluates the probability of the fall of the gigantic cosmic bodies on the Earth and even to Mars.

For many years, scientists scratching their heads wondering, trying to see how there could be life in all its diversity from inanimate matter. Researchers from the University of Santa Fe introduced a new interdisciplinary theory to explain the mystery of the universe.

Clay minerals, rocks, which are usually formed when water is present for a long period of time in the same place cover a larger part of the surface of Mars than previously thought.

Science fiction becomes reality. It is likely that at some time in the planet Mars mankind will be able to equip life - NASA experts are already working on projects to create Mars habitable conditions.

Another surprise for the participants of the project "Cassini" was presented to Titan. On this moon of Saturn detected river valley, very similar to the direction of the earth Nile river, only in miniature. It stretches for 400 kilometers from its source to the sea Kraken. This is the first major river system, found in space. Moreover, it managed to capture high resolution.

American chemical laboratory continues to surf the surface of Mars and to do new research.

Astronomers believe that the planet mercury in the past could become the object of a collision with an asteroid, which affected the orbit motion of this planet. According to astronomers, now the orbit of mercury is atypical and to explain its movement can only any unusual factors.