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• Behavioral Economics: Why Humans Aren’t Made to Be Rational

  …ments. Survivorship bias refers to the way we tend to pay attention to positive results of an experiment. A commonly cited example comes to us from World War II. Back then, engineers were tasked with identifying the areas on bomber planes’ fuselages that needed to be reinforced. Initially, additional armor was applied in areas which were most often shot up on airplan…

  17.04.2019

• Director of RIKEN Nishina Center Hideto Enyo on Discovery of Nihonium

  …he Japanese government and has a budget of about 88 billion yen (760 million USD). RIKEN conducts research in many fields of science: physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, engineering and computer sciences.…

  17.04.2019

• 8th Congress of Young Scientists: Genetic Algorithms, Robotic Intelligence and Struggle Against Infections

  … hardware and software. Researchers often implement the unique abilities of living beings in their robots: adaptability, heightened senses and energy efficiency. From an engineer’s standpoint, a human hand is a complex instrument that can adapt to the shape of objects it manipulates and perform both precise and strong gripping. This very idea was used in the devel…

  16.04.2019

• Green Icebergs, Planet Nine, and End of Opportunity Rover: Top Science News of 2019 So Far

  … involved in the ITER project Pavel Piskarev: ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is the world’s largest international nuclear fusion research and engineering project and an experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor. A tokamak is a device that uses a powerful magnetic field to confine hot plasma in the shape of a torus in order to produce …

  15.04.2019

• Business Model Canvas: Visualizing Your Business Ideas

  …home university, so I just needed to come in on a separate day and work on real-life cases,” shares Andrey Desyatnikov, a student at the Faculty of Food Biotechnologies and Engineering. “Workshops like this also give you an opportunity to learn more about marketing specifics of other countries. For example, we were discussing the idea of selling online courses on how…

  12.04.2019

• Space Tourism: How to Book a Flight to the Orbit

  …pril 25, 2002. In addition to recording his trip, he conducted research on the development of embryo and stem cells in zero gravity. Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American engineer, is the first female space tourist who visited the ISS on September 18-29, 2006. Ansari was actually a back-up for Daisuke Enomoto, a Japanese would-be tourist who was disqualified for me…

  12.04.2019

• French Embassy Counselor Visits ITMO University

  … French Republic, with financial support proffered to those with the highest score. During his visit to the university, the Counselor congratulated those of the Physics and Engineering Faculty’s staff and students who were awarded the I. I. Mechnikov, I. I. Vernadsky and M. V. Ostrogradsky scholarships. The Embassy of France in Russia is also willing to support th…

  11.04.2019

• German Week in St. Petersburg: Experts Discuss Science Communication and the Social Mission of Modern Science

  …e industry and conduct the transfer of technological innovations. CERN does not ignore education, too. One of its missions is to raise the next generation of scientists and engineers, which they do through programs for school students and teachers. Those who come there spend a week learning about modern science and then, having come back to their classrooms, tell chi…

  11.04.2019

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: April 13-14

  …reams that became a reality” This Friday, April 12, is Cosmonautics Day, and the St. Petersburg chapter of “Russia – my history” park will turn into a massive spacecraft engineering bureau, replete with authentic historic material tracing back to the Big Bang of Russian cosmonautics, to celebrate. The extraterrestrial expo will also include an interactive area ded…

  10.04.2019

• Exploring North Rhine-Westphalia: St. Pete Startuppers Pitch to German Companies

  …or them alongside the jury. Among the experts were Oliver Weimann, a managing director at ruhr:HUB, Harald Kremer, the head of the cluster of nanotechnologies, microsystems engineering, new materials and photonics of the Federal State of North-Rhine Westphalia, and Elena Matekina, the head of the Central and Eastern Europe and Russia Department at the economic develo…

  10.04.2019