Novosibirsk State University climbs faster up the world academic league table than other well established Russian institutions.
Success as Novosibirsk State now rubs shoulders with the likes of Yale and Harvard in the United States and Oxford and Cambridge in Britain.
It could come as close as 7,000 km, say experts.
Tomsk State University scientists' invention can be deployed by police and security services in terrorist situations, also for rescues.
New rector Mikhail Fedoruk has set a bold target of bringing Siberia's leading university into the top 90 in world rankings.
Some 35 Russian higher educational institutions are attending the annual Chinese showcase of international universities.
Experts have developed a way to zap household waste with a giant microwave reactor, turning it into coke, fuel and gas.
The asteroid was 'the same size' as the meteor which exploded over Chelyabinsk injuring 1,500.
Nematodes moving and eating again for the first time since the Pleistocene age in major scientific breakthrough, say experts.
Tomsk researchers were the first in the world to catch the enigmatic germ.