Number 61 (Story #6), January 3, 1992 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein THE SOVIET ACADEMY OF SCIENCES has ceased to exist. Russian president Boris Yeltsin has stipulated that the Academy's possessions in Russia belong to what will become a new Russian science academy. The new institution does not yet have a budget or a president; Evgeny P. Velikhov, director of the Kurchatov Institute, is the leading contender for the job. (Nature, 19/26 Dec. 1991.)