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• Bioprosthetics: Can They Really Be Controlled With Our Minds?

  How are bioprosthetics made? How are they attached to the body and controlled? How are they different from other prosthetics and is it true it will be possible to move them with our minds in the future? In this article, we tackle these questions with Motorica, a company founded in 2015 by ITMO graduate Ilya Chekh.

  04.12.2020

• How To: Outdoor Ice Rinks

  So, December is finally here and the temperatures are slowly getting lower, practically inviting us to partake in all kinds of winter activities – preferably those that are outdoors and allow for social distancing. Ice rinks sound like an exciting idea but you’ve never been to one? We’ve got your back! Here’s our handy guide on what to expect on an ice rink. 

  04.12.2020

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 5-6

  Winter is finally here and on this suddenly sunny Wednesday, we are happy to help you plan your first December weekend. Two very colorful exhibitions, a film festival, a conference, and an online charity market – these are going to be two action-packed days! 

  02.12.2020

• ITMO Researchers Find Quick and Easy Way to Detect Tick-Borne Encephalitis

  Scientists from ITMO University have created a testing device to detect tick-borne encephalitis that can be used to identify the virus at home. The results of this work have been published in ACS Applied Bio Materials. 

  30.11.2020

• New Coworking Space Now Open at ITMO’s Lomonosova 9 Campus

  Just last month, a new coworking space opened its doors at ITMO’s main building on Kronverksky Prospekt 49. On November 24, a counterpart opened at the Lomonosova St. 9 campus. Both of the coworking spaces and the upcoming library have been developed as part of the university’s overall transformation strategy that aims to make studying, working, and socializing comfortable and enjoyable for all students.

  26.11.2020

• Picture of the Week: Light-Emitting Perovskite

  Perovskite-based devices could potentially be used to create commercial-purpose full-color displays that would be cheaper and more efficient than their existing OLED counterparts.

  23.11.2020

• Gennady Korotkevich Wins Topcoder Open's Algorithm Track for Second Year in Row

  The results of this year’s Topcoder Open were announced on November 22. Gennady Korotkevich, a PhD student at ITMO University and an award-winning programmer, won the Algorithm competition for the second year in a row.

  23.11.2020

• Friday Experiment: Attempting to Write Every Day

  Whenever life tries to get the better of me, I always find myself either with a pen and a random notebook, the first I could lay my hands on, or, lately, in front of a white blank Word page. So, when November presented me with plenty of homework, a Master’s thesis experiment, and a dozen other projects, I knew what was coming – and tried to make good use of it.

  20.11.2020

• Project by ITMO Student Displayed at the State Museum of Urban Sculpture

  A video mapping project by Daria Protnikova, a Master’s student at ITMO’s program in Multimedia Technologies, Design and Usability at the Faculty of Software Engineering and Computer Systems, became a part of the Night of Arts exhibition at the Mikhail Anikushin studio.

  20.11.2020

• Top Nine Questions About Genome Decoding

  These days, we often hear about scientists having decoded the genome of this or that species. ITMO.NEWS and Aleksey Komissarov, a researcher at ITMO’s SCAMT Institute, explain what DNA is, how it helps us study animal ancestry, and in what way DNA testing differs from genome research.

  20.11.2020