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  • Science Communication Research from American Journalists

    …est Science Writers Association. Gibbs was the editor in chief of the books Modernist Cuisine and Modernist Cuisine at Home, and is collaborating with Nature, Science, Wired, Discover and IEEE Spectrum. What makes a story interesting Mark Harris: Readers love stories about how people interact with technologies. You can write about how a technology works, who in…

    01.06.2018

  • How Your Brain Makes Decisions

    … an unconscious buildup of electrical activity within the brain, i.e. it may be possible to predict the upcoming outcome of a decision before the subject is aware of it. This discovery triggered a discussion amongst specialists from many fields; three major scientists and Nobel Prize laureates Paul Glimcher (neurobiologist), Vernon Smith (economist), and Daniel Kahne…

    31.05.2018

  • 5 Science News Now

    …row elastic diamonds. UNIST has unveiled that brittle diamonds can be bent and stretch by as much as nine percent without breaking, then return to their original shape. Their discovery completely overturns previous theories that diamonds are brittle. Their results could open up unprecedented possibilities for tuning its optical, optomechanical, magnetic, phononic, an…

    28.05.2018

  • New Blockchain-Based System Will Control Quality of Medical and Chemical Products

    … also work on applied pharmaceutical research and chemical engineering, we often encounter a particular issue. Chemists create new medical products and drug delivery systems, discover new active ingredients, etc. But every time we stop and think about one simple thing: whatever new, amazing properties a new product has, and no matter how effective it is, does the end…

    25.05.2018

  • ITMO Hosts Conference on Cognitive Technologies and Quantum Intelligence

    …t. In Germany, the opinions divided in a more classical manner: there were people who supported the migration policy, those who didn’t, and a third group that expressed their discontent with migration policy but expressed their support towards Merkel in general. In the USA, the results were even more interesting. We got two “leftward” groups: the more politicized one…

    22.05.2018

  • ITMO University Invites Young Scientists to Study Graphene-Type 2D Materials

    …What sort of research do you plan to do at ITMO University? Two-dimensional materials are a relatively new field of research that began with the discovery of graphene in 2004. The importance of that research was immediately understood by the scientific community; just six years after the first experiments, the scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov were aw…

    22.05.2018

  • 5 Science News Now

    … piloting. Moth’s silk fibers inspire “air-conditioned” fabric. In exploring the optical properties of the Madagascar comet moth's cocoon fibers, Columbia Engineering team discovers the fibers' exceptional capabilities to reflect sunlight and to transmit optical signals and images, and develops methods to spin artificial fibers mimicking the natural fibers' nanost…

    21.05.2018

  • ITMO Participates in SPIE Photonics Europe 2018

    …photonics. We’ve developed a technology for introducing nanoclusters into the hosts’ nanopores, and then researched the optical properties of such a material. As a result, we discovered a peculiar effect - the transition of optical excitation energy from the host to the nanoclusters. It turned out that by modulating the conditions of the aluminium coating process, we…

    18.05.2018

  • Bike Ride with the Rector: St. Petersburg Best Routes

    … I ride it from time to time. I’ve always loved bikes. A friend of mine from ITMO University once gave me a walking tour through the city center, and I had a chance to discover many beautiful places that you don’t usually notice when rushing to work. Then I went there by bike and saw the city from a different perspective. I think that being a university specia…

    17.05.2018

  • How Citizen Science Helps in “True” Research

    …ce more democratic and open to the public. It became necessary that not only scientists, science journalists or communicators talk about science, not only experts present new discoveries, but the public itself was involved in research. According to Julia Lorke, now we have many definitions of citizen science. Each institute and organization has its own vision of t…

    11.05.2018