Life on Earth was much older

Life on Earth was much older According to the new estimates, the so-called last universal common ancestor (LUCA), who was the ancestor of all contemporary organisms on Earth — from bacteria to humans, lived more than four billion years ago. Upstairs It is found out thanks to a new approach to defining the time of existence of LUCA, who invited scientists from the UK. According to previous estimates LUCA lived 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago. The results presented in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. The newsFound the leg, which left the largest of the famous dinosaur footprints Paleontologists have been trying to establish when our planet life appeared. However, in the fossil record to recover its history is impossible, since such finds are rare and only fragmentary cover the tree of life. “There are some fossils of the Archean period (he started 4 billion years ago and ended

The HRC has offered to stop to put for an insult of feelings of believers

The HRC has offered to stop to put for an insult of feelings of believers The Council on human rights at the President (SPCH) offered to edit the Russian anti-extremist legislation and to decriminalize the article on insulting the feelings of believers (part 1 of article 148 of the criminal code). This is stated in the draft recommendations signed by the Chairman of the Council Mikhail Fedotov, says RBC. Upstairs The HRC made to be removed from the Criminal code of the point of insulting religious feelings and instead to Supplement the Code of administrative offences (Cao) composition burdened with insults. Human rights activists noted that the terms “religious beliefs” and “believers” very abstract, and it is unclear whether the offence, for example, insulting atheistic views. Another initiative of the Council — to leave the Criminal code the only punishment for violent extremist crimes, the threat of extremist violence, calls

Life on Earth was much older

Life on Earth was much older According to the new estimates, the so-called last universal common ancestor (LUCA), who was the ancestor of all contemporary organisms on Earth — from bacteria to humans, lived more than four billion years ago. Upstairs It is found out thanks to a new approach to defining the time of existence of LUCA, who invited scientists from the UK. According to previous estimates LUCA lived 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago. The results presented in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. The newsFound the leg, which left the largest of the famous dinosaur footprints Paleontologists have been trying to establish when our planet life appeared. However, in the fossil record to recover its history is impossible, since such finds are rare and only fragmentary cover the tree of life. “There are some fossils of the Archean period (he started 4 billion years ago and ended

Life on Earth was much older

Life on Earth was much older According to the new estimates, the so-called last universal common ancestor (LUCA), who was the ancestor of all contemporary organisms on Earth — from bacteria to humans, lived more than four billion years ago. Upstairs It is found out thanks to a new approach to defining the time of existence of LUCA, who invited scientists from the UK. According to previous estimates LUCA lived 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago. The results presented in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. The newsFound the leg, which left the largest of the famous dinosaur footprints Paleontologists have been trying to establish when our planet life appeared. However, in the fossil record to recover its history is impossible, since such finds are rare and only fragmentary cover the tree of life. “There are some fossils of the Archean period (he started 4 billion years ago and ended

Starry night

Starry night These black women put the world to its knees. Upstairs “Ribbon.ru” continues to acquaint readers with famous women of the past century, opinion leaders and style icons. One of them — Aretha Franklin “the greatest singer in history” according to Rolling Stone magazine, died recently. “Ribbon.ru” recalls Aretha and, with it, the other prominent black women of the twentieth century. Josephine Baker Black dancer Josephine Baker are familiar even to those who are never interested in the history of American and Parisian music halls. The name she had pictures of her prohibitively extravagant costumes: in one photo she poses wearing only pearl beads, patch wings of feather and marabou high heels, a personal friend of her nakedness covers only an improvised skirt made of bananas. Equally unusual was the origin of Josephine: mother she was an African-American father (he was a drummer in a jazz band) — Jewish.

Editor-in-chief of MK shares with his wife, the property of almost 30 billion rubles

Editor-in-chief of MK shares with his wife, the property of almost 30 billion rubles MOSCOW, 22 Aug — RIA Novosti. The wife of the chief editor of “Moskovsky Komsomolets” Pavel Gusev requires a court to divide marital property, told RIA Novosti press-Secretary of the Presnensky court of Moscow Alexey Chernikov. Upstairs According to him, the court has registered a lawsuit Evgenia Efimova, a hearing is scheduled on August 23 and will be held behind closed doors. The RIA Novosti source said that the couple’s property is estimated at more than 27 billion rubles, although officially this information is not yet confirmed. Efimova intends to seize shares and stocks in the authorized capital of ZAO “redakciya gazety Moskovskiy Komsomolets”, JSC “MK. Media-service” Agency “Fregat”, JSC “Publishing house MK”. In addition, under section can hit a few non-residential premises, including the editors of MK, two houses, 15 plots of land in the

Spiegel called the detainee in Berlin Russian “Islamists from Chechnya”

Spiegel called the detainee in Berlin Russian “Islamists from Chechnya” Moscow. August 22. INTERFAX.RU —the Detainee in Berlin, the Russian Magomed-Ali s. — “Islamists from Chechnya”, according to the website of the German weekly Der Spiegel, citing sources. Official confirmation of this information to “Interfax” failed to obtain. Upstairs “We do not comment on reports the personal data of the suspect”, — said the representative of the Prosecutor General of Germany. According to the Prosecutor’s office informed the press release, the detainee’s 31, he is a citizen of the Russian Federation. According to prosecutors, the man in 2016 were preparing a terrorist attack with the prisoner in France by Islamist Clement B., and kept in his explosive — acetone peroxide. In the autumn of the same year in the apartment of the suspect was searched, as believes a consequence, the detainee refused from his intention. Back in the spring, the

The Muscovite, brought from Peru shaman’s drink and got 11 years in prison

The Muscovite, brought from Peru shaman’s drink and got 11 years in prison The Domodedovo court of the Moscow region has sentenced the inhabitant of Moscow Maxim Gerta to 11.5 years in prison for smuggling drugs, which he brought from medical tourism trip to Peru. Upstairs As told bi-Bi-si the lawyer condemned Vladimir Brigadin, the young man worked as an artist-designer in the Department store and went to Peru to heal. He has been suffering with a back trouble, and none of the traditional methods of treatment does not help him. He read that in Peru there are specialized shamanic centers, and went there to be treated.Vladimir Brigadin Peruvian shamans of traditional Muscovite drank a decoction of “Ayahuasca”, which has hallucinogenic properties. Because he did not have time to complete the course of treatment to return home, we decided to take to Moscow one liter of this healing drink to