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• Researchers Develop Supersensitive Method to Measure Surface Topography With THz Radiation

  …for Scientific Research (CNRS) (№18-51-16002 НЦНИЛ).  Catching the wave phase  Terahertz radiation is an electromagnetic radiation that works in the frequency range between infrared and microwave ones. It opens great possibilities for researchers – from ultrafast internet connection to replacing X-ray. Lately, scientists have been experimenting with getting…

  30.07.2020

• How and Why Do Scientists Create Nanorobots?

  …ids) or inorganic (silicon, carbon, ferrous materials) compounds and their combinations. Why, then, are they called robots? Here, a distinction has to be made between nanomachines and nanorobots. The main difference between them is that the robots need to have not only the sensor and motor units but also a processor as a…

  29.07.2020

• Not a New Format, but a New Form of Communication: ITMO Teaching Staff on Distance Learning

  …w cause fear and concern – but distance learning is far from new. The first mail-in educational courses emerged in the 18th century with the establishment of extensive postal networks. Students would complete assignments and submit them by mail in a process that would stretch for months on end, partly due to difficulties with communication at the time. In the mid-19t…

  29.07.2020

• Neurotechnologies and Software Engineering Master’s Program to Go Corporate and Open Two New Specializations

  …ing the brain, the nervous system, cardiovascular, respiratory and muscle functions, as well as eye movements; studies of the methods of intelligent data processing: neural networks, machine learning, system analysis, image recognition, and visualization. To study human psycho- and neurophysiological processes, the program uses such modern digital complexes as…

  29.07.2020

• ITMO Graduate Nikita Teplyakov on Working in Switzerland, Studying in the UK, and Breaking Stereotypes

  …t was the point of the scholarship: my task was to do the same sort of full-fledged research as what I would’ve done at ITMO. What fundamental differences have you noticed between the working processes of Russian and Swiss laboratories or research teams? I’d say that in Switzerland the work mode is more “relaxed.” What I mean is that scientists there can work o…

  28.07.2020

• Environmental-Monitoring Water Drones to Be Tested on St. Petersburg Rivers

  …e sensors. The data can then be uploaded into a remote location on the web; for example, in one of the experiments, the information was sent onto the servers of the worldwide network Sensor.Community. What’s more, the published data is protected from counterfeiting using a combination of various tools based on blockchain technology. The work has had both engineeri…

  28.07.2020

• ITMO’s Russian Language and Culture Summer School: A Passion for Learning

  …decided to learn Russian and study Slavic culture because I think it's so different and also something that is profoundly misunderstood in the West. There's not much dialogue between East and West at the moment which I think is a shame. And I find Russian literature just fascinating. Just the sociology behind it. The way that Russian writers manage to get inside the …

  28.07.2020

• Path to Immortality: Old and New Ways to Fight Aging

  …years, then accumulate them again, then get rid of them again. In theory, this could be the one approach to grant us eternal life, but ideas on how to do that are few and far between – and even those don’t seem very likely. First off, it could be possible to eliminate senescent cells with drugs; but the effect would be mild and less than that of dieting. Secondly,…

  27.07.2020

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

  …ays realize that they have this problem, considering their lifestyle as natural and normal as any. They don’t realize that their quality of life suffers as a result. The line between a principled stance and chemophobia as a disorder can be very subtle. The goal of our project, among other things, is to make this line more clear-cut: so that both the professional comm…

  24.07.2020

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

  …ommit any major crimes, or any crimes at all. A similar problem occurred with the Palantir system. Palantir is a software based on data mining. It helps to see connections between a person – for example, a dangerous criminal – and property they owned, locations they went to, means of transportation they often used, people they contacted, and so on.  It means th…

  23.07.2020