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• Cognitive Science: How Memory Works and How to Make Yours Work Better

  … reconstruct it – or what we recall of it – is modified by something else, in this case, our knowledge of what is common in the world around us. Objects most known to us or explanations most fitting our worldview come to mind first, or more easily than those that were actually there. And we’re stuck in a rather tricky predicament.  Before you start panicking and q…

  21.07.2020

• Researcher Svetlana Ulasevich on Fighting Resistant Bacteria With Ultrasound

  … Belarus and the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany. In 2017, it was named Belarus’s best thesis of the year in natural sciences. In 2018, Svetlana Ulasevich came to ITMO University to join Professor Ekaterina Skorb’s research team as part of the ITMO Fellowship Program. Now, thanks to a Russian Science Foundation grant and the suppor…

  17.07.2020

• AI And Science in Art at the EverArt Weekend Online Festival

  …ter’s program. BIOROBOTY019 The Master’s program was also represented at the festival by members of the up-and-coming art group BIOROBOTY 019 – Marta Mikhailova, Svetlana Sidorova, Victoria Romanova, and Alyona Korolyova. The students shared their experience and explained how they create their projects. “There are three main stages to creating any art …

  08.07.2020

• Speak like a Russian: Cat Words

  …m. Well, I guess the short way isn’t the most comprehensible, so you’d better read the original text if you’re interested (you can find a decent English translation with an explanation here, for instance). Finally, there’s a phrase that will most likely get you on the good side of almost any educated Russian, which is a quote from the extremely popular novel The M…

  08.06.2020

• AR Technologies at Home: FASTEP Startup Team on Easy-to-Understand Manuals for Household Appliances

  …uals. In practice, we solve the problems of not only a device’s owner but also its manufacturer as oftentimes people resort to the internet for information. There, they get explanations from a blogger, but no one could guarantee this person’s actual competencies in the matter, and they could be explaining everything in such a way that will just tarnish the company’s …

  03.06.2020

• From Digital to Optical: Scientists Demonstrate the Work of First Chemically Synthesized Optical Switch

  …nted to several dozen milliseconds. This is two to three orders better than offered by existing MOF-based organic systems.” Physics-wise, this change has the following explanation – the femtosecond impact generated by the infrared laser is enough to, in effect, evaporate the water from the metal-organic framework. This leads to the MOF becoming less transparent …

  19.05.2020

• Scientists Report on Crucial Reduction of Indian Lion Genome Diversity

  …d. What’s even more surprising is the fact that the hybridization of big cats has been previously described in research papers. At this point, the researchers don’t have an explanation why the cave lions have ignored their closest relatives. Possibly, there was some sort of an obstacle that is yet to be detected. The scientists have also discovered that lion a…

  14.05.2020

• Don’t Leave the Room, Don’t Make a Mistake and Run: Poems Every Russian Knows

  … Why do we do it? A Google search reveals no official explanation for this particular detail of our curriculum. What I did manage to find, however, were the general benefits you get when memorizing and reciting something in front of a class – from new words and enunciacion skills to public speaking and battling stage fright. Naturally, as you grow older and the p…

  28.04.2020

• “I Did It Because I Could”: ITMO Alumnus Donates 800 Respirators to St. Petersburg Hospital, Buys Laptops for School Students

• Over 2000 Participate in ITMO’s Online Congress of Young Scientists

  … from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad. Holding the conference on ZOOM was quite successful, allowing all the participants of the conference to have an equal chance to talk.  Svetlana Gnezdilova, Director of the Center for Inclusive Education It is worth highlighting the positive side of the online format of the Congress – the absence of geographic limitations, which…

  22.04.2020