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• Cartoons We Love as Adults

  …sode merely 11 minutes in length, it can be watched in just hours; but I assure you it’ll be hours very well-spent. Elizaveta There’s always a time to realize you see certain things from another angle, and cartoons are no exception. In one of those moments of enlightenment, I was lucky to rediscover Shrek. Of course, as a kid I’ve watched it a thousand times – …

  05.03.2021

• QS WUR by Subject 2021: ITMO Debuts Among Top 100 Universities in Computer Science

  …e. An even bigger advance has been made in Mathematics: ITMO is now part of the global top 300, having been ranked in the 351-400 range last year. The university has also retained its positions in three other subject rankings: ITMO remains in the 201-250 range of both the Electrical & Electronic Engineering and the Physics & Astronomy rankings; it has also preserv…

  04.03.2021

• Highlights of Another Break Down by Atoms Lecture at the Informational Center for Atomic Energy

  … is why the disease has such characteristic symptoms.  Right now the main treatment of Parkinson’s disease deals only with these symptoms. It usually involves drugs that contain dopamine predecessors or the mediator itself, which interacts with receptors and alleviates the symptoms for a short while. But such treatment doesn’t help to cure the disease and fight th…

  03.03.2021

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 6-7, 2021

• ITMO Researchers Develop Method for Production of Hollow Nanoparticles From Liquid Metal

  …ther, physical, methods involve the use of expensive lasers and other equipment; with those, laser pulses are used to break off nano-scale objects from substrates made from certain metals. It’s even more difficult to make nanoparticles hollow. Researchers often achieve that through the template method: the substance in question is deposited onto a spherical pa…

  03.03.2021

• How the Pandemic Is Causing a Technological Revolution in Medicine and Biotechnologies

  … than $22 trillion. The pandemic turned the market upside down and changed all of its key players’ approach to business processes. Global corporations are now taking sustainable growth seriously and are ready to invest in it. The entire world has made a huge leap when it comes to digitalization. For example, the field of medicine was gradually leaning towar…

  02.03.2021

• ITMO Highpark’s Project Receives Positive Assessment

  …of the ITMO Highpark project is proceeding in full accordance with the approved schedule and the plans that we announced earlier. By the end of the first quarter, we plan to obtain the approval of our design project for the area from the government of St. Petersburg, as well as a construction permit, and begin the construction of the first facilities,” says Andrey Na…

  02.03.2021

• Mind-Blowing Research of the Month: Brain-Computer Interfaces

  …o this review, BCIs can replace lost functions, restore them, improve people’s ability to perform a task, or enhance function. The replacement happens when people control a certain manipulator or a communication system with their brain activity to compensate for any kind of impairment they might be suffering from. The range of devices here goes from wearable robotic …

  02.03.2021

• ITMO Scientists Propose Technology for Producing Fish Oil and Collagen From Herring Skin

  …s from the skin of atlantic herring. The raw materials for the experiment was taken at a fish-processing enterprise. The method works as follows: fish skin is put into a container where it’s mixed with special solutions produced with electrochemical means. Then, the content is heated and stirred continuously. In half an hour, the skin completely dissolves, turning…

  02.03.2021

• Giant Turnips and Runaway Buns: Essential Russian Folktales

  …t (!) who help the characters deal with the turnip. We probably won’t ever know what exactly these feet meant for storytellers and listeners of the old times, but there are certain speculations. For example, some believe that it has to do with rafter feet used in construction. In The Golden Cockerel, Alexander Pushkin described folktales like this – “Tale of sense…

  01.03.2021