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• Song of the Month: April 2019

  …Anastasia K: French electro pop This month, I’ve been obsessed with French electro pop. And, thanks to the magic of the YouTube recommendations vortex, I discovered a lot of great stuff. Here’s some of it: Un Amour au Super U is cute and unassuming, just like un amour au Super U should be. Je kiffe; Agitations Tropicales transports me to an unmapped trop…

  26.04.2019

• Dragon Anatomy and Folk Tales: Physicist and Anthropologist Discuss Game of Thrones

  …cientist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is a fan of the show and has plenty of interesting notes on its universe. In the Russian section of the internet, there is plenty of good discourse to be found on the pop-science portal N+1. For instance, they have looked at the feasibility of dragons being able to fly, which appears to be one of the most common questions. As it t…

  26.04.2019

• ITMO Developers on Creating an Evaluation System for Plagiarism Detection in 48 Hours

  …t in the most difficult dataset, but we didn’t give it much attention. Instead, we decided to focus on writing one more article. However, as it often happens with significant discoveries, when it was all done and ready for publication, we realized that it was all wrong. It was not our algorithm that we owed our good results to but the imperfection of the evaluation s…

  23.04.2019

• Behavioral Economics: Why Humans Aren’t Made to Be Rational

  …adhere to the utility function in our everyday decisions. The principles of basic economy cannot be applied to individual customers, and neither is the utility function. This discovery signified a major turn in late 20th – early 21st-century economics. Problem #1 Say you’ve got a choice between opting for a guaranteed payout of $250 or a lottery where you have …

  17.04.2019

• Director of RIKEN Nishina Center Hideto Enyo on Discovery of Nihonium

  …Discovery of nihonium Elements that are heavier than uranium (atomic number 92) don’t exist in nature; still, they can be produced, for example in nuclear reactors. That being said, you can’t use a nuclear reactor to create elements that have an atomic number higher than 100 (fermium): you’ll need accelerators where superheavy nuclei emerge as a result of a collis…

  17.04.2019

• Green Icebergs, Planet Nine, and End of Opportunity Rover: Top Science News of 2019 So Far

  …n to be reflected. Later experiments, though, found that the amount of carbon in green icebergs was too low to create the emerald hue. It’s only recently that scientists have discovered iron oxides in a decades-old green ice sample taken from Antarctica. Incorporated into ice, iron oxides reflect reds and oranges but absorb blue light, producing a vibrant green color…

  15.04.2019

• Presidential Grant Recipients On Their Award-Winning Research

  … The process of producing nanolasers is very interesting, but also very labor-intensive, as the objects in question are very small, and their generation is associated with discovering a high number of phenomena that are hard to explain. We have already conducted several successful experiments that prove the relevance of our idea. Having studied the scientific l…

  15.04.2019

• What to Do in St. Petersburg on Cosmonautics Day

  …setta probe’s journey to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko to the origins of the Universe and the Soviet space shuttle Buran. Ticket prices vary from 400 to 550 rubles, with discounts for ISIC card holders and students. Note: the tickets are eligible on any day within a period specified on the ticket. For this year’s Cosmonautics Day, the Planetarium will play ho…

  12.04.2019

• German Week in St. Petersburg: Experts Discuss Science Communication and the Social Mission of Modern Science

  …cientific study, development, education, and communication with the outside world, namely the society, which isn’t always capable of understanding the results of this or that discovery. So how do we present this information to people? Practice shows that it’s important to establish a connection between science and real life, to show how exactly the scientists’ ach…

  11.04.2019

• Programming Music with Sonic Pi: A How-To

  …thinking. But once upon a time, a group of scientists decided to test that axiom in relation to musicians by putting sensors on their heads and asking them to play. What they discovered was that musicians activate both parts of the brain when performing. This was due to the fact that their kind is good with structures, and are always counting off rhythm to themselves…

  08.04.2019