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• Ancient Art & Science, or What Killed the Medusa

  … This means the issues associated with vision, light and color were solved with systems that focused on the eye and its “visual rays.” They also relied on these concepts when studying mirrors. “The Greeks did not focus on the mirror as an instrument,” comments Sergei Stafeev. “The question was how and why we see ourselves in a mirror: why we see smaller images i…

  02.11.2020

• ITMO University’s Alumni Entrepreneur Club

  …eas. This is the main benefit that we offer,” adds Lyudmila Tsoi. Networking bingo The first event of the club brought together over a dozen entrepreneurs who are studying or have already graduated from ITMO University. Their first task was networking bingo. Its main purpose was to help participants get to know each other. Each had to find out which of th…

  02.11.2020

• Painted Mammoths and Honey: the Rescued Wonders of Bashkortostan

  …ing a way to apiculture beekeeping. Russian regions and European countries turned their backs to modern methods, but the Bashkirs have chosen another path. To preserve and study the bees in their natural state, the Shulgan-Tash State Reserve was established in 1986. Almost completely extinguished in the 1950s, wild beekeeping is now experiencing a revival. Contrar…

  02.11.2020

• Picture of the Week: An Atomic Force Microscope Celebrates Halloween

  …Atomic force microscopes are used to study geometrical sizes of particles several nanometers in diameter, measure layers less than a nanometer thick, as well as analyze surfaces. The microscope works through “palpation” of the surface with a probe that is located on the end of a long elastic rod – the dark narrow stripe seen in the picture above. The microscope is…

  30.10.2020

• Allergist Olga Zhogoleva on Evidence-Based Medicine and Myths

  …rsity in Voronezh and now this university has become one of the strongholds of modern medicine in Russia thanks to the efforts of the neplacebo community. However, when I was studying there (I graduated in 2007), all these popular double-blind placebo-controlled studies were explained to us as something great, but also very difficult to achieve. The models of doct…

  29.10.2020

• Student Spotlight: Rigel Olvera, Mexico

  …rs in Russia, you start to get familiar with some names such as MGU and ITMO. It is well known that ITMO is one of the best universities in Russia. I decided that I wanted to study at this university because they offered the program and the facilities needed for the development of my project, which nowadays is not very popular and not many universities support this k…

  29.10.2020

• ITMO University Rates Among Russia’s Top 5 in Quality of Tuition-Free Admissions

  … The share of “average” students in tuition-free positions, which accounted for one quarter of the intake five years ago, has now been lowered below 15%. As for fields of study, the top categories among tuition-free students are Healthcare (27,869), Computer science and computing technologies (26,305) and Pedagogy (24,528).…

  28.10.2020

• Research Team from ITMO University, St. Petersburg State University, and Nova Southeastern University Is the First to Sequence the Genome of Moss Animals

  …The fields of genetics and bioinformatics give scientists the ability to reveal more and more of nature’s secrets. Genetic information allows them to study evolution, history, and the current state of species. However, the genome must be thoroughly sequenced beforehand. That’s what many scientists are engaged in these days. The genomes of common species, such as monk…

  28.10.2020

• What is Hyaluronic Acid and Where Can We Apply It?

  …aterial. It is a general name for a group of compounds which can be in the form of acids or salts. Any alternative names have to do with which compound properties researchers study or how they choose to apply them. For example, sodium hyaluronate is hyaluronic acid sodium salt. Hyaluronic acid is a naturally-occuring polymer that can be found in human and animal cell…

  27.10.2020

• Cognitive Science Tales for Halloween: 4 Mysterious Cases

  …al a page a day, documenting his small successes, his feelings, and his attempts to make sense of the world around him. His journal is considered a unique contribution to the study of consciousness, presenting us with a chance to look into the eyes of not fear but endless perseverance and a will to live.  I tried to end this Halloween-themed piece on a light note,…

  27.10.2020