The first Triassic beaded lacewing (Neuroptera: Berothidae) from Central Asia, with redescription of Mesoberotha superb (Riek, 1955).

Ferganoberotha minutissima gen. et sp. nov.

A forerunner of Darwin in the service of nihilists: the translation and reception of in Russia.

by Robert Chambers, a Scottish publisher and popular writer, was one of the most influential evolutionary works in the pre-Darwinian age. This article examines the circumstances in which this treatise was published in Russia in 1863 and went through a second printing in 1868. was translated into Russian by Alexander Palkhovsky (1831-1907), a former medical student, ideologically close to the nihilist movement, and was initially printed by the radical publisher Anatoly Cherenin, later prosecuted for his ties with revolutionary circles.

Observation of the effect of gravity on the motion of antimatter.

Einstein's general theory of relativity from 1915 remains the most successful description of gravitation. From the 1919 solar eclipse to the observation of gravitational waves, the theory has passed many crucial experimental tests. However, the evolving concepts of dark matter and dark energy illustrate that there is much to be learned about the gravitating content of the universe.

The earliest pollen-loaded insects from the Lower Permian of Russia.

Recent fossil discoveries suggest that the coevolution of insect pollinators and gymnosperms started long before the appearance of flowering plants. One of the keys to understanding the origins of pollination relationships is fossil insects with gymnosperm pollen attached to the body surface. Such fossils are exceedingly rare to find, especially from the Palaeozoic, a time when ambers with insect inclusions were absent.

Possible long-proboscid insect pollinators from the Early Permian of Russia.

Insect pollination is one of the hallmarks of flowering plants. Bees, moths, flies, and some other pollinators evolved elongate siphonate mouthparts for sucking concealed nectar and occasionally other liquids. However, it is clear from the fossil record that insects with similar adaptations appeared long before the mid-Cretaceous radiation of angiosperms.