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• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #66

  It’s certainly been an exciting couple of weeks for science – after all, we’ve learned the names of this year’s Nobel Prize recipients! Naturally, we’ve already prepared our breakdowns of a few of these remarkable achievements. Also in today’s digest: the future of energy, self-designing robots, IT contests, and a new science art exhibition in St. Petersburg!

  21.10.2024

• Science, Culture, Medicine, and Humor: Noble Talks by ITMO Kick Off in St. Petersburg

  ITMO’s Center for Science Communication has launched a series of free pop-science lectures titled Noble Talks at New Holland Island. Here, scientists, medical specialists, artists, and tech experts will discuss scientific, medical, and technological breakthroughs in the wake of the 2024 Nobel Week and analyze trends from different perspectives.

  14.10.2024

• Hacking Protein Structures: Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Protein Design and Structure Prediction

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was awarded to the American researcher David Baker “for computational protein design” and the British researchers Demis Hassabis and John Jumper “for protein structure prediction.” In this article, we turn to ITMO researchers to find out why we need to predict protein structure and how AI can help us in this process.

  09.10.2024

• Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Discoveries in Machine Learning and Neural Networks

  This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” In this article, Anton Kuznetsov, the head of ITMO’s Institute of Applied Computer Science, explains the significance of their work – and how it led to ChatGPT.

  08.10.2024

• Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded for MicroRNA: ITMO Expert Explains Significance

  In 2024, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.” We asked Oleg Kuchur, a PhD in biology and assistant at ITMO’s ChemBio Cluster, all about microRNA and its applications. Read on to find out his answers.

  07.10.2024

• ITMO’s Monday Science Roundup #41

  In today’s science digest, we’ve got the latest medical research by experts from ITMO and a top-6 list of the biggest contemporary discoveries in physics. Also: ITMO.NEWS reviews this month’s Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry, physics, and medicine!

  16.10.2023

• Russian-Born Scientist Receives The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery and study of quantum dots. The awards ceremony was streamed live on the Nobel Assembly’s website on October 4. Below is a primer on quantum dots and their possible applications by ITMO researchers.

  05.10.2023

• Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 Awarded to Researchers Who Made the Impossible Possible

  The 2023 Nobel Prize was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier for producing short pulses of light that make it possible to see inside atoms and molecules. The laureates were announced during a live stream on the Nobel Assembly's website on October 3. ITMO.NEWS asked Dmitry Karlovets, a senior researcher at ITMO’s School of Physics and Engineering, to weigh in on the trio’s experiment and the prospects of their finding.

  04.10.2023

• Nobel Prize 2023 in Medicine Awarded for mRNA Vaccines: What Does It Mean?

  Today, during a live broadcast from the Nobel Assembly, it was announced that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their research that paved the way to mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. In this article, we take a closer look at their research and the promises it holds with Ekaterina Skorb, the head of ITMO’s Infochemistry Scientific Center.

  02.10.2023

• ITMO's Monday Science Roundup #16

  In today’s digest of research news from ITMO University, you’ll read about exciting new research in the field of nanoscience, find out how to attend the latest conference for robotics (or chemistry – or both) buffs, and learn some fascinating insights into this year’s Nobel Prizes and the curious science of biomimetics.

  17.10.2022