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Movie Fridays: Time of Your Life
Sport, Recreation, Intellectual Hobby: What is Birdwatching and How it Helps Scientists
…tphone and access to the Internet. Everyone likes birds and animals but very few people know anything about them. The school curriculum in biology is often boring and only discourages the natural interest in the animal world. In the Soviet Union, there was a program called “In the World of Animals,” which fueled the interest in nature. But when everything fell apa…
24.08.2018
Culture Calling: Where to Enjoy Classical Music in St. Petersburg
…, this place boasts superb acoustics and a fine music organ which makes its unconventional jazz-meets-Bach Christmas concerts a real treat. Keep your eyes peeled for the many discounts the Chapel offers: there’s a whopping 30% reduction of all tickets bought in its box office between 12am and 1pm, while students get 30% off all tickets anytime, so there’s no excuse n…
21.08.2018
St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, Singapore: ITMO Graduate on Improving City Infrastructure
…rsity to complete his research project. By modeling different scenarios for distribution of autonomous infrastructure elements throughout the city, the ITMO graduate plans to discover how the different combinations and amounts of these elements impact the stability of the transport system. He is also preparing a research paper unveiling his findings. “Although o…
21.08.2018
Physicists Propose Reversible Adjustment of Nanoparticles Color
…ts in one device. Together with their colleagues from Sweden, Australia, the United States, and Lithuania, researchers from ITMO University have made a big breakthrough by discovering the Fano resonance in perovskite nanoparticles. They also managed to gain control over the resonance spectrum for an array of inorganic nanoparticles. To do this, the scientists prop…
17.08.2018
Movie Fridays: New Kids Rule The School
…un (yes, we’re using the word ‘fun’ when talking about a 18th-century novel) watch. The plot follows an Austen-junkie Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper), who one fateful day discovers that her puny London apartment has a secret door to the Pride and Prejudice world, to which she gladly escapes. But the dream turns into a nightmare when Amanda realizes that her cow-o…
10.08.2018
PyLadies: Python for Women
… to Svetlana Dyakova, a web project manager at Veeam Software, only 20% of programmers at big IT companies such as Google, Facebook and Twitter are women. There are also many misconceptions about women being bad at programming. “Previously, there were more women in IT, but then they were pushed out by men. It’s hard to say for sure why it happened, but the fact …
10.08.2018
ITMO Researchers Publish Review on Perovskite Research
…he element’s size but the material’s properties. Perovskites’ ability to absorb light can be also used to create effective photodetectors. Still, it has only been recently discovered that perovskites are quite an interesting material from the nanophotonics point of view. Perovskite-based nanostructures are cheap, have a high refractive index which makes it possibl…
10.08.2018
Profilaktika.Media - Russia’s First Media Project on Cancer
…ssed our future title’s structure, and decided on using a wide range of topics. By all means, oncology remains our main focus, but even this topic is now associated with many misconceptions and myths. Turning a blind eye to them would’ve been plain stupid. We still have few sources of information about oncology in Russian, and at least a half of those is based on que…
09.08.2018
Vacation With a Purpose: Science Tourism and Citizen Science
…st ten years already collected detailed classifications of roughly 250,000 of the brightest galaxies. What is more, thanks to this initiative, a new type of galaxies has been discovered: the “Green Pea” galaxies that were often identified by the project’s participants. The service’s popularity led to the emergence of other similar projects. In 2009, the Zooniverse se…
06.08.2018