Famous for its lonely loo with a view at 2,600 metres - 8,530ft - this meteorological outpost provides essential data for the world.
Lab-made dog was created from tiny fragment of its mom's ear by the South Korean team working at bringing back the woolly mammoth.
Agafya Lykova rejects leaving her remote house even though debris from coming rocket launch could fall dangerously close.
Some 15 massive skulls disovered inside a cave in the Ural Mountains, where the bears went to die in late Pleistocene.
Deputy finance minister Mikhail Kotyukov, 36, given key job amid 'crisis' over science reforms.
Extinct reptile with 'toothy grin' found by fishermen as they rafted in remote area of the Yamal peninsula.
Latest sensational breakthrough from ancient remains found in Altai Mountain cave are revealed in Nature scientific journal.
The Russian president took part in the 'Flight of Hope', giving a flying lesson to young white cranes ahead of their epic 5,000 km migration.
Baywatch star on trip to Russian Far East visits lion saved from flooded zoo in Ussuriysk.
The BIOS-3 closed ecosystem in Siberia sustains human life autonomously by creating a micro-Earth.