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ITMO Scientists Create a Hopping Robot Using Morphological Computation
…hat, the team used the research results of ITMO’s partner, the University of Twente (the Netherlands). “We had a hypothesis about flexible joints: they can rotate at a certain angle, they are light, and they have no friction and backlash. Then we had to think about how to design them. The very task of designing joints is non-trivial – we can't just take some pla…
28.07.2021
Researchers on the Spread of COVID-19 in St. Petersburg and Vaccination
…. Petersburg, the statistics on death rate are precise and it’s possible to count excessive cases. Using our research, we can tell how many people have had the disease by a certain date and compare their number with the number of people who died. Daniil Shirokov: The death rates are quite high, too. In the US, less than 0.1% die from influenza, which makes COVID-1…
27.07.2021
Yekaterinburg: Discovering the Heart of the Urals
…Looking to escape writing our theses, my friend and I decided to explore Yekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city, located in the Ural Mountains. We were not sure what to expect but were ready for new experiences, learning, and getting our senses overwhelmed. Yekaterinburg was founded in 1723 as a mining hub in the heart of Russia and got this name from Peter t…
27.07.2021
ITMO University Hosts Seventh SCAMT Workshop Week
…school was conducted in English, so all documents, essays, and letters had to be provided in English, too. Other than the opportunity to work with cutting-edge equipment, obtain new skills in relevant fields of studies, and see how the ChemBio cluster functions, the participants of SWW get the opportunity to join ITMO’s Master’s programs without having to take ent…
22.07.2021
Student Spotlight: Juan Camilo Diosa, Colombia
…ted ITMO by email when I was already in Russia. The process of getting the visa was very simple because from the beginning the university tells you what documents you should obtain in your country. The university takes care of the whole process. What were your first impressions of Russia? When I arrived in Russia, I was surprised by the people’s friendliness a…
22.07.2021
ITMO Researchers Create Perovskite Chess Set That Glows in the Dark
…apitanova, the device demonstrates unique results, as energy from one source is being transmitted into 32 receivers at the same time with equal efficiency. “The pieces contain light-emitting diodes that highlight perovskite quantum dots embedded into the pieces’ material. The energy is delivered to the diodes wirelessly – we embedded a big transmitter into the c…
21.07.2021
ITMO Launches IP Exchange Center
Vatrushka: Delicious Tvorog Pastry With a Mysterious Past
…d the mystical flower that could turn all your dreams into reality. According to historians, vatrushkas served as tiny representatives of the sun on the Kupala Night feast, sustaining those celebrating through the long night of jumping over fires and other extravagant activities. As for the word itself, the origin is not very clear. Some say it can be linked …
19.07.2021
Winners of the I am a Professional Contest Share Their Experience
…tudents has played an important role. The easiest way to memorize and understand something is to explain it to someone else. Plus, my knowledge in particle physics that I’ve obtained while working at a lab helped me solve the tasks of the megascience projects track. The same goes for the track in nuclear physics: that’s where I had to train in order to solve tasks qu…
16.07.2021
The Future of Life Sciences: Video Game Treatments, Top Vaccines, and Preventing Apocalypse
…omes to health care. Digital revolution in health care: bioengineering, digital therapeutics, and AI Every cell in our body stores our genome in a DNA molecule which contains everything there is to know about our body. How much memory space do we need to store all of this info? We only need one CD – about 700 Mb. But if we count every gene as a separate file, …
16.07.2021