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• University of South Carolina Professor on Development of Anticancer Drugs

  …n’t able to develop a mechanism to resist it. As an example, rectal cancer was for a long time considered as dangerous as any other type of cancer. But then scientists discovered a whole new class of conventional drugs targeting the disease, and now 90% of patients are able to go back to health thanks to these treatments. Among the main groups of convention…

  19.12.2018

• Musicians: Nature or Nurture? Science Journalist Asya Kazantseva Explains

  …t people who practice music do better at school. Though the correlation does exist, it needs to be taken with a pinch of salt, which comes in the form of cargo cult. First discovered in Melanesia, cargo cult is a belief system found in tribes coming into contact with more advanced cultures. When Western military bases started to appear in Melanesia after the WWII,…

  17.12.2018

• University of Twente’s Stefano Stramigioli: Robotics Is About Giving Machines Life

  …ur take on that? These conversations have been going on for quite some time; I even had a TED talk about this. The issue is that society and mass media have certain misconceptions about the capacities of technology. Many get their ideas of technology from science fiction, and people tend to associate robotics with AI. Another misco

  17.12.2018

• ITMO Fellow Ilya Anoshkin on Nanotubes and Working Abroad

  … the nanotubes as compact receivers and terahertz radiation generators. They will be the first explorers to focus on this cutting-edge scientific field. Another unexpected discovery made by Ilya Anoshkin and his colleagues concerns manipulating the nanotube properties through light exposure. The researchers found a way to control the time delay that occurs when th…

  10.12.2018

• Tech Entrepreneur Grigory Kunis: Sky's the Limit

  … On working with supermarkets Our clients’ average bill is 3,700 rubles. We don't charge any additional fees for the products; our profits come from delivery services and discounts that our partners offer for wholesale purchases. By the way, securing those bonuses is actually the hardest part of any negotiations. Making an agreement with the METRO chain was th…

  07.12.2018

• Education Anew: Motivation, Development, and Careers in the Digital Age

  …e invested into your personal and professional growth. How do I find the time for my development? Maria O.: I have two thoughts on this matter. The first one might be a discovery: we all have the same 24 hours in a day. From this follows the second one: everyone should understand how much and what exactly they can do in a unit of time. Marina K.: When I hear…

  06.12.2018

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: December 8-9

  … present, as well as ancient clocks, illustrations, and other space-related curios, gaze at the wintry St. Petersburg from the skydeck of the Observatory’s Central Tower, and discover more of our Universe through the informative films and documentaries screened as part of the event. Tickets cost 550 rubles and are available here. Shopping Our ‘hint-hint, time t…

  05.12.2018

• New York University Professor Kimon Keramidas on Digitalization and Digital Humanities

  …s like ENIAC and other monstrous computers that existed up to the mid-20th century, when digital technologies started to look more promising. With time, they even changed the discourse of modern science. Still, that was before they began using this term in relation to cultural studies. In 1993, the Wired magazine appeared. This title became a forum for people …

  03.12.2018

• Movie Fridays: New Releases

  …freezing out in the streets. No stranger to kindness, Osamu decides to shelter Juri (Miyu Sasaki) in his ramshackle home, an initially hesitant decision reinforced by a later discovery of her gruesome past. The family warms up to her and even starts to initiate her in their purloining ways, until one day, a startling revelation hits them with a choice they need to ma…

  30.11.2018

• ITMO Scientist’s Thesis Named Best at the Australian National University

  …gical insulators was recognized by the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to British physicists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz for their theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. Together with his colleagues from an international research group, Alexey Slobozhanyuk was the first to prop…

  30.11.2018