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• Top 3 Science Myths Busted

  …e with the universe (spoilers!). In fact, it’s so blatantly untrue that it’s hard to tell where to start the debunking. Let’s look at an fMRI scan of the human brain. In neuroscience, it is generally held that every region of the brain is almost always active (even when you sleep), which makes a lot of sense given the amount of sensory information we have to process…

  06.07.2021

• Everything You Need to Know About COVID-19, Pandemic, and Vaccination

  …s when you’re vaccinated?  No way. Firstly, vaccinated people may not get sick but they can still spread the disease to others who are not vaccinated.  Besides, some scientists believe that interaction between vaccinated and unvaccinated people can lead to other virus mutations, namely new strains that will be more efficient at slipping through the immune s…

  06.07.2021

• ITMO.LiVE 2021 Returns to Its Roots

  …y “goodbye”, we say “see you soon,” says Vladimir Vasilyev. All graduates remain part of ITMO.Family. The university stands ready to help them on their journey, be it science or business, and the doors of ITMO’s Career Service Center, graduate school, and ITMO Accelerator are always open to them, too. Learn more about these opportunities in your ITMO alumni …

  05.07.2021

• ITMO Graduate Vladislav Tankov on the Importance of Life-Long Learning

  …ematical support and administration of information systems at the Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty at St. Petersburg State University. In my third year, I joined the Computer Science Center and got the chance to do my internship at JetBrains where I developed an audit system for financial statements. After my internship, I stayed at the company: first at the Interna…

  02.07.2021

• Leaving the Digital: New Workshop by ITMO’s Art & Science Center

  …In today’s world, the borders between natural and artificial, real and digital are gradually dissipating. Bionics – the science of biologically-inspired engineering – is becoming the foundation of contemporary design and architecture. Another trend that’s currently on the rise is the use of 3D printers in construction, i.e. directly transferring digital structures in…

  02.07.2021

• Student Spotlight: Menard Phiri, Malawi

  …rdable but great education in every way. Why did you focus on ITMO? Through my internet search I got to know that ITMO University is a top Russian university in computer science, and further ranks exceptionally well at the national and global levels: like, for instance, this year it was ranked 365th out of 1,300 universities from 93 countries by QS World Univer…

  01.07.2021

• Understanding Vaccines: Types, Tests, and Choosing the Right One

  … identify and fight them. This principle is used, for instance, in the vaccine made by the Chinese company Sinopharm or in the CoviVac vaccine produced by the Chumakov Federal Scientific Center for Research and Development of Immune-and-Biological Products of Russian Academy of Sciences. A definite advantage of this technology is the…

  01.07.2021

• ITMO Launches New Corporate Master’s Track in Computer Vision

  …O University and Napoleon IT are launching the new Computer Vision track within the Infocommunications and Digital Media Master’s program. “Our ambitious aim is to bridge science and business with this Master’s track,” shares Dmitry Botov, head of the new track. “We want students and lecturers to be able to come up with technologies that are groundbreaking not j…

  30.06.2021

• ITMO Opens Admissions Office Branch at Sevkabel Port

  …aisova, deputy head of ITMO's Department of Strategic Communications. “In the afternoon, the program will focus on children and their parents: we’ll have classes from the Life Science School and ITMO.KIDS, puzzles from the lecturers of our exam and contest training courses, performances by our robotics teams, and scientific experiments.…

  29.06.2021

• From Evidence-Based Medicine to Neuroscience: Nine Most Popular Books on Health

  … 0.05. Evidence-Based Medicine. From Magic to the Search of Immortality by Peter Talantov Out of the three, this one is the most vivid representative of popular science on evidence-based medicine. The term “evidence-based medicine” seems to speak for itself: everything must be scientifically proven and safe. But how can w…

  29.06.2021