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• Scientists Optimize Growing Neurons from Stem Cells Using Machine Learning and Robots

  …v, a neurobiologist at the University of Sheffield (the UK), and Pavel Katunin, a PhD student at ITMO University, who have recently launched a project in this field.  “We want to learn to convert stem cells into other kinds of cells and have thus decided that it’d be better to start with converting stem cells into neurons,” says Anton Nikolaev. “The gist of the …

  27.07.2020

• Yagodnoe: More Than a Summer Camp

  …riting to yagodnoe@itmo.ru. The most common and easiest way to get there by private transport. For organized events, the organizing teams usually rent buses. But if you want to head out there on your own using public transport, the suburban train station Losevo (Google Maps) is not too far – you can board it at the Finlyandsky railway station or the Devyatkino…

  24.07.2020

• ‘Free From Sulfates, Phosphates, and Parabens’: What Is Chemophobia and How Is It Tackled at ITMO

  …In a 2019 research conducted among 5,630 residents of eight European countries, 30% of respondents indicated that they fear chemical substances, while 40% said that they want to live in a world where chemicals don’t exist at all. The authors of the research also discovered that most people’s knowledge of the natural world is extremely low: 82% of respondents didn’t k…

  24.07.2020

• Cities on the Moon, Villages on Mars: What's Stopping Us?

  …f now, we aren’t able to live away from Earth. It’s hard to imagine a functioning industry on another planet. Food and water would likely be stored, not produced. If we really want to live on other planets, then being a mere colony of Earth is not enough. Is the current level of space exploration sufficient for actually inhabiting it? Not quite. For a start, we sh…

  24.07.2020

• Campbell’s Law: Why Smart Technologies Don’t Always Make Life Better

  …they are implemented, both the indicators and the processes they evaluate get distorted. Donald Campbell used school as an example. Officials from the Ministry of Education want to understand how well the learning process in a school goes and how it can be improved. In order to achieve this, they use certain indicators. For example, average exam grades, the number…

  23.07.2020

• Evolutionary Computations Explained in 9 Simple Questions

• This Mostly Stay-at-Home Weekend in St. Petersburg: Mental Health

  …to identify and address negative thought and behavior patterns that undermine your confidence, and set about developing your own leadership style and behaviors.  And if you want to delve deeper into the science of success, take a look at this course by the University of Michigan, which draws on decades of scientific research to explain what the most successful peo…

  22.07.2020

• At-Home Lab Experiments: A Look at the Summer SCAMT Workshop Week 2020

  …nual work.  “When it became clear that the school was to be held online, the question came up of how to maintain the school’s high level and signatory features. We didn’t want to postpone it to the next year or replace all classes with regular lectures – we wanted to give the participants the opportunity to do something with their …

  22.07.2020

• Mission Inboxible: How to Set Up a Successful Marketing Mailout

  …s: change the time and frequency of the mailout, experiment with email topics. From time to time, make sure to gather feedback, launch surveys in the vein of “how often do you want to get our emails and on which topics”. Usually, these questions are responded to by less than 10% of clients, but this provides an essential body of data on how best to organize your work…

  21.07.2020

• A Great Opportunity to Practice Public Speaking: SPIE Photonics Europe Participant on the Advantages of Online Scientific Conferences

  …ome and simultaneously communicate with other speakers – via email, comments and in other ways. In my opinion, there is also another advantage in regard to those people who want to deliver a public report for the first time but are a little afraid to do that. It’s not a secret that public presentations sometimes are very stressful for some people, scientists inclu…

  20.07.2020