Using the Coursera platform 吃瓜官网 has launched free open online courses since January 11, 2016. The first lectures available for all comers will be the lectures on the virology and genetics basics.
Let us recall the most interesting and unusual discoveries of the NSU scientists, which you could read on our website in 2015.
One of these laboratories will be a laboratory of paleotectonic research of the Arctic which is the most modern laboratory in the Russian Federation.
Archaeological excavation in the cave Sel-Ungur conducted by an international team of archaeologists including specialists from NSU and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography helps unveil the history of hominin occupation of Central Asia and Southern Siberia. Is there any relation between the cave dwellers and the famous Denisovan hominin discovered in Altai?
.JPG "Altai-China pipeline will have a route through the areas of strong ancient earthquakes")
The NSU geologists, working in the Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics and the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, have found the traces of previously unknown ancient major earthquakes in Gorny Altai. The findings made them reconsider the seismic hazard in some areas of Gorny Altai, where strong earthquakes were not registered before. It is also important to take this fact into account when constructing facilities and a gas pipeline to China called "The Power of Siberia-2".
Prof. Dmitry V. Metelkin fr om the Chair of General and Regional Geology at NSU and the Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS tells us wh ere Siberia was located during different historic periods and if we should expect a warm climate.