Science: Roscosmos shows Milky Way collision with Andromeda Galaxy

Video by Roscosmos (Russian Space Agency) showing what will happen in four billion years when our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy.

«Это будет очень невеселое зрелище для землян, если еще будет кто-то к тому времени существовать на нашей планете. Наша солнечная система почувствует необычайное ускорение, нас выбросит из плоскости нашей галактики куда-то далеко, мы полетим. Это будет удивительный полет через такую кашу из звезд.

Reclusive Russian maths genius rejects $1m prize

Russian reclusive maths genius Grigory Perelman did not appear in Paris on Tuesday 22nd June to collect his $1m prize for solving a problem that has puzzled scientists for more than a century.

Perelman, 43, was to be awarded the prize for proving the Poincaré conjecture, one of seven problems on the institute's Millennium Prize list.

Perelman, who lives in a small apartment in St Petersburg with his elderly mother, is unemployed and neighbours say he lives in poverty.

He has rejected job offers from several top US universities.

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